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1969
lilies coming up through stone rubble. Lots
of 4-foot columnar non-fluted cactus, sourrel,
and other green herbaceous plants. Heard
numerous birds. Saw no mouse droppings. In
several places, hundreds of tiny di-cot seedlings
were coming up.
Ablembled during afternoon, than at 4:30 drove to
the Tillandsia south of Chilea (Speedometer read 7.6 miles
south, topa sheet looks like >8 miles, call it 8 miles SE Chilea,
150 ft. Carol, Miguel & they set about 107 themones, and
Antonia I set about 25 large themones, about half of them
along the road and half in pure Tillandsia.
Foggy all day, or cloudy, occasionally drizzle.
One cute low plant seen was small
green like a diminutive miner's lettuce
with globes of water sitting on top of
each leaf. Seemed to be increased surface tension
so that the glob of water was unusually tenuous.
picture slightly exaggerated.
July 2 Lots of garras during night and early morning.
Rout traps at 7 a.m., nothing along the highway where all
the tracks were, up in the Tillandsia found 4 mus
and 1 Pth. browni. Released all. The mus made no tracks
when running away. It's about a half mile to
the nearest agriculture (cotton etc.). Numerous foot
tracks, some for disturbance to some traps. The only
Phyllotus was on the very top of a hill under a