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- April 19/41 [1941] Visited Shaws at Old West Saanich Rd. [road]
Sea blush, mimulus, blued [blue] eyed grass,
saskatoon, dog wood, lady slipper, oregon
grape still in blossom. Also white
Erythronium [white fawn lilly], trillium.
April 20/41 [1941]
Trip to end of West Coast Rd. [road] [all underlined]
The last few miles of road past
Jordan river is still in unlogged
land. - Heavy stand of spruce, hemlock
+ Douglas fir.
Many gravelly creeks cross highway;
some of the canyon walls are covered
with maiden hair ferns.
Ambystoma [underlined] [mole salamander] In small ditch by
road side were found large number
of egg masses of Ambystoma. Some
appear freshly laid (egg still round)
others some weeks old (embryo well-
formed + green symbiotic algae present)
The latter suggests that the eggs are
that of A. gracile [Ambystoma gracile - Northwestern salamander] which are often coloured
green with algae. On one small pool
about 2 ft. [feet] in drain. 14 egg masses
were seen. Eggs were also found in
stagnant pools and in pools of
water receiving water from Gravel Creek.
In one of the larger pools of the first
examined ditch larval salamanders
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