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10. Solanum (Yellow fruit)
A shrubby weed in alvar soil
11. Jessamine -
A common flowering shrub
12. Red Flowered Shrubs. Tubulos.
Common near river.
Description general
Valley deep, V shaped
about 3,000 feet in depth.
Rock on east side limestone or
west bank shale chiefly. Soil
red clay or shale gravel with
yellow clay.
Climate cool in March.
Morning calm afternoon with
good breeze from inner from 1 PM
to sunset. Night to clear calm.
No original forest seen, only
a few trees at riverside to
scattered growth of poplars,
trees on grass covered hillsides.
West side little cultivated; some
here occur like trees, but x
fall. Very little bainto or
mudgrass seems, chiefly
tall slender grass 3 feet high
or hillsides.