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numerous foothill species in this community, as Homalobus 

 flexuosus, Gilia scariosa, DrymocaUis glandulosa. While many- 

 plants of the foothills are represented the characteristic short 

 grasses of the foothills are entirely absent, just as they are 

 absent from the entire Park. The Stipa association develops 

 only on slopes, especially rolling; hills. 



Fig. 3. View in the Carex stenophylla society showing the abundance of low- 

 growing Antennaria. Photograph taken in early June. 



Artemisia-Phacelia society. Artemisia frigida, A. forwoodii, 

 A. aromatica, Phacelia heterophylla, Agropyron tenerum. This 

 is an unstable community found on railway fills and in other 

 places where there is freshly-disturbed ground of coarse texture. 

 Perhaps if left undisturbed it would eventually pass to the stage 

 previously named as the Carex stenophylla society. 



Eriogonum society. Eriogonum umbellatum, Stipa comata and 



