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grew about one of the wet places. It is related to Carduus 

 ochrocenirus^ and is probably the C. undulatus of the King Re- 

 port, said to be common throughout Nevada and Utah. 



On the east slope, just before going down into Ruby valley 

 a species of juniper, identified as SabtJia ntahe7isis, was fairly 

 plentiful. It is a small tree ten to fifteen feet high with a short 

 trunk and generally well rounded crown. The species is fairly 

 common at low and medium elevations in the limestone forma- 

 tion of the southern part of the Ruby range. 



Ruby valley, on the east side of the range, lies at an eleva- 

 tion of about 6000 feet. It is perhaps ten miles wide, and the 

 western side especially is more or less devoted to hay ranches. 

 Our maps show two fair sized bodies of water, Franklin and 

 Ruby lakes, but these lakes are little more than marshes cov- 

 ered with a dense growth of tules, Scirpus occidentalism so that 

 scarcely any clear water surface is exposed. 



I'i^ure 4. The source of Cave creek. 



As mentioned in the first paper of this series, only two 



streams flow from the base of the mountains. The place where 



the larger of these, Cave creek, emerges from the range, is 



shown in the accompanying illustration. A sage brush covered 



