Journal 204 Sept Contra Costa Co., Cal. overgazed with weeds eminent on to the San Pablo Dam Rd & over hill to Linden & Berkeley. The last photo N. across hills above the San Pablo Dam. Home about 3:30. Planted the 2 redwood sprouts - wood and sword ferns. The Rana boylei dried through it in a sealed plastic bag with the plant material. The small luskewheat growing among the rocks at the mouth of Navarro Cr. have me puzzled.- they are the only ones dive seen N of the S.F. Bay. There are afews of the fasciculatum growing on the mineral soil on the Freeway near Contra Valley (Hwy 50)- Persian aob is a tenacious plant- in Contra Costa Co. it invades the grassy areas and in Anderson Valley it is the only higher plant in an old timber stand burnt over - dead black columns & stumps in dense grass - in the former area its in the soft chaparral community with Baccharis while in the latter its successional - or is it - perhaps its an invader here also.