Excerpt from Phytologia, Vol. 49: A Cooperative Nonprofit Journal Designed to Expedite Botanical Publication; September, 1981 By contrast, the western slope of the canyon is quite xeric, with dry, open grassland (often with scattered sagebrush), rocky slopes, and very little forested area. No continuously flowing creeks are found on this side of the canyon, and only a few draws have water in the spring. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.