Weston 1946 Journal July 6 - Sand Dune Pinto Basin Elev. 1775 ft, 1/4 mi W + 2 3/4 mi S of Pinto Peak, Joshua Tree Natl. Mon., Riverside Co., Calif. at Pinto Basin tonight and moving on to Cottonwood Springs tomorrow. Wade has to leave Tuesday and we will probably drive him into Indio in the afternoon of that day. At 12:10 we were in town. There we got supplies, gas, water, checked and found no mail, changed another tire on the car (getting to be a habit) and ate lunch. About 2:30 p.m. we left town and stopped in the wash near the original 29 palms (just SE of town). There until we sat in the shade of several cottonwoods and wrote field notes, took a nap and looked for specimens. We stopped because it was much too warm to try and work in Pinto Basin until about 5 p.m. About 4:15 p.m. we left Twenty-nine Palms and headed out toward Pinto Basin. As we went down the long downgrade into this basin we passed through areas of Joshua Trees, then Mohave yucca, then cresote bush and smoke trees, then cholla cactus then ocotillo and finally down onto the basin floor where the vegetation consisted of scattered creosote bushes intermingled with Hilaria rigida (galleta grass) and Atriplex (salt brush). We