Hoffmeister 1942 Itinerary June 20 (cont) 9 mi. W Benton, 8300 ft., Mono Co., Calif. There are old Thomomys workings along the creek and they are also scattered irregularly, and not abundantly, in the yellow pines. Broke camp and drove to our locality designated 9 mi. W Benton, 8300 ft., Mono Co., Calif.. This is on the northeast slope of Glass Mountain and along the east branch of "Dry Fork" of Black Canyon. We turned south from the highway out of Benton to Mono Lake at a junction designated "Sawmill Canyon; Black Canyon." Continuing up this, we then followed a road marked "Sawmill Meadow", and continued to the end of this road, camping in an aspen grove near a small spring. A short distance north of our campsite there is the remains of a deserted, small sawmill. We are not camped in Sawmill Meadow. The main vegetational types here include Jeffrey pine, lodgepole pine, white(?) fir, and aspen. Around the numerous meadows (mostly of small size), there are willow thickets. The dominant shrub is Artemisia. In various exposed, rocky situations mountain mahogany is present. Two miles (by road) north of camp, at 7600 feet elevation, the pinyons are found and continue down the slopes to about the 6800-6900 foot contour. At the mouth of Black Canyon, the pinyons seemed very limited in their occurrence, or restricted to the occurrence of large rocks. Water flows down the Wet Fork into Black Canyon, being diverted to pasture land at the Seares Ranch (now