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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