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Palmer
1935
Itinerary
Laguna Beach, Orange Co. (contd.)
Aug. 17 sharply from the rocky cliffs at the shore.
In the evening drove N.E. from the town on a road that runs up the hills. Saw a dead Rattlesnake by the roadside.
At a point designated as: 1 mi. NE Laguna Beach, 500 ft. Orange Co., Calif., set out 49 traps (gen. sig. mouse)
in a loop running down a hillside across a gulch and back to the road.
Most of the hillside is covered by
ceraria fatua (now beaten down flat)
with scattered plants of Euphorbia albomarginata (?) and a few clumps
of saw grass - Cladium mariscus.
In the gulch there is a rather thick cover of brush 2-3 ft. high of Artemisia californica and Erionema fasciculatum with a few scattered shrubs 4-8 ft. high on the N. slope facing of Rhus integrifolia and Sambucus glauca. The soil to adobe, baked hard and much cracked.
Traps were set about 15 steps apart; of them about 7/3 on the open hillside + 1/3 in