Argentina field notes, v1527
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May 2 Michael Christie at 9 to 6:00 (about two M.S), then drove to Paso Punglue to check ribbon sealing landero (reported by Jim Leid). The emigration people held my passport & car papers so I couldn't go into Chile. Drove almost to the Chilean border, well along the landero, at 15.5 km beyond the Rio Totoral (or 17.2 km beyond the abandoned emigration station), then returned to the Cascada Diana, which is 8.7 km beyond the Rio Totoral. Collected 1 of 3 tiny lizards at the higher point, 15.5 km beyond. They were basking on a rotting log in a small sun surrounded by snow. The vegetation was at the interface of 1-inch longa siphliges growing loosely on the red shale, and larger, kepler longer, understory Drimypa. Are begin to see blooming farnelar fruit beyond the adavana, but nowhere at speed 1% of the plants I examined maybe a dozen flowering plants (this year), and I don't think any of them had seeds. On some of the plants, the new shoots had bloomed and had produced 36 or so seed heads at cool node - but no leaves. Perhaps a way of telling ahead of time if the plant is going to bloom? Comfort is dry cithus/longa with cithus sophlige along the road and dense landero under- story. Put 8 cage traps and camp (lista 1