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Mayhew
1959
Journal
20.
Feb. 5 Mojave Desert,
Colorado Desert, Riverside & San Bernardino Cts., Calif.
except for a few spots a few hundred
yards long each. We drove through
the eastern edge of 29 Palms, then turned
east on the road to Amboy. We drove
until we reached the dirt road that
goes to Dale Dry Lake. This is a
good road that by-passes the chemical
plant on the edge of the lake. This
road intercepts another road that
goes south of the dunes on Dale Dry
Lake (this roads runs from Rice to
29 Palms). We found abundant tracks
of Urea scoparia in these dunes, but
saw no lizards because it was already
duskdown. This should be a very good
location for obtaining specimens of
Urea scoparia. We left the area
at 1730. This time we stayed on the
road that goes from Rice to 29 Palms
(called Dale Road at this point), and
started west toward 29 Palms. The
collecting site we plan to use is
18 miles east of our prospective camp-
site, and 3.4 miles east of the end
of the pavement (our campsite is 1.6
miles east of pavement end). (I failed
to mention that several annuals had
sprouted in the dunes at Dale, and
moisture was found in the soil at a
depth of about 4 inches.) Dale Road