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On the alluvial flats of the canyon floor, at an average elevation of six thousand feet, greasewood (Sarcobatus vermiculatus) is dominant, associated with sagebrush, bunch grasses (Sporobolus), rubberweed (Hymenoxys), tumble weed (Salsola pestifer), salt bushes
Tseh So, a Small House Ruin, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico : 1937
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Agreeing neither with the "pestifer doctor Pelagius" nor with the "error prædestinationis" of Lucidus, he resolutely adopted the standpoint of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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a sparse vegetation of chico or black greasewood (Sarcobatus vermiculatus), tumble weed or Russian thistle (Salsola pestifer), crownbeard or smelling sunflower (Verbesina enceliodes exauriculata), and scattered grasses.
Tseh So, a Small House Ruin, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico : 1937
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