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hills of the high mesa surrounding the La Sal Mountains. This 
is characterized by a number of low shrubs and under-shrubs as 
Amelanchier utahensis, Cercocarpus montanus, Coleogyne, Petra- 
doria, Yucca, Nuttallia, Fendlera, Ephedra, Gutierrezia, Cowania, 
and some species of Quercus. The altitude was about 6,000 feet. 
About 1,000 feet higher these shrubs are replaced mostly by the 
cedar-pinyon formation. Both the cedar (Sabina or Juniperus 
monosperma) and the pinyon or nut-pine (Pinus edulis) are low 
scragly trees, usually 15 to 20 feet high. Within this formation 
Fic. 35. “'Cedar-pinyon formation" of the foot-hills of La Sal Mountains;— 
the dark trees are the cedars, the lighter ones the nut-pin 
at Little Springs, altitude 7,200 feet, we camped over night. 
Around this we collected a few hours and gathered several in- 
teresting plants, among them several species of Stipa. In the 
morning we continued our journey. A few hundred feet higher 
we reached the top of the mesa. Here the cedars and pinyons 
ceased. The photograph (fig. 35) was taken just where the 
road emerges from the cedars and pinyons. The dark trees are 
the cedars and the lighter ones the nut-pines. The mesa was 
