16 CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY No. 17 
From Kanab the road goes up Kanab Creek and over a divide and 
rrounded by much vegetation. I did some botanizing here and along the 
river towards the summit. 
Going west from Salt Lake City and around the north point of the 
Aqui range west of Grantsville, I collected some on the cliffs and along a 
wash before I got out on the main desert, the real bed of the Great Salt Lake. 
There was nothing of interest crossing the salt beds till I passed Wend- 
over and was climbing over the hills which had many patches of the very 
rare grass, Eremochloe Kingii, which looks like a Tricuspis or Munroa. 
rom Owyhee, here and there, to Bruneau, are arid patches bearing a pecu- 
liar flora such as Mentzelia, Astragalus Toanus and speirocarpus, etc. 
Owy! Ss on a flat near a great lava mesa, and the flora is mostly 
Middle Temperate meadow formation. From there northward the road 
drops down some to the level of the Snake river clay bluffs, whose sides 
are scored by rain and rather bare, but what plants are found are interest- 
ing. Owyhee and Bruneau are not far from Mountain Home. 
North of Weiser, on a fork of the Weiser river, is Mann’s creek on 
the highway to Cuprum, Meadows, etc. This was an interesting region in 
the early spring because of the umbelliferae growing in the gumbo soil of the 
bluffs. But I was too late for that flora. 
After my visit to Bickleton I drove back to La Grande, Oregon, and from 
there drove 65 miles east to Wallowa lake, which lies behind a glacial 
terminal moraine at the mouth of a canon in the upper edge of the Middle 
Temperate life zone. From there trails go up into the high Wallowas above 
timber line. 
of the John Day river, and followed down to Prairie City, a beautiful country 
irie. From there it was not far to John Day town and 
Canon City, where the ground is all torn up by placer mining for gold. 
From there the road follows up a long way and over onto meadows in the 
parklike country to Burns, which lies out in the sagebrush area near the Mal- 
