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The ship spent three days near the island but owing to rough 
eas I spent only two days ashore. There evidently had been 
considerable rain, for many of the hills and rock slides were 
green, but the number of interesting species seen were very few, 
the vegetation consisting largely of native and introduced weeds. 
This is due to the fact that the island is overrun by goats which 
have destroyed many of the native plants. The rare palm 
(Brahea ae pines is only known from this island 
was not seen, although stumps, some a foot in diameter, were 
passed in the canyons which showed plainly that they had been 
gnawed down by the goats. : 
Fic, 43. View on Cedros Island, a Rhus in the foreground. 
High up in the canyons were a few live-oaks (Quercus tomen- 
tella), some with a trunk two feet in diameter. These often 
grow down in the bed of the canyon where great boulders, brought 
down by the sea torrents, are dashed against the trunks, 
peeling off the bark and scarring them - ees Two 
California poppies were seen growing ose ity, but 
certainly distinct. One was the peay ene ae paneieas 
which is well worthy of cultivation as an ornamental plant, but 
Ree it was only in flower and no seeds could be ob- 
ned. Only one cactus was seen and that an Opuntia of the 
