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RABBIT BRUSH (Chrysothamnus nauseosus hypolluca). 



Richter lists rabbit brush as yielding nectar in the vicinity of Inde- 

 pendence, California, from September till November. He states that the 

 bees work vigorously on it, but that the honey is dark, of poor flavor and 

 disagreeable odor, and that when the bees are evaporating it it can be 

 smelled all over the place. 



There are seventeen different varieties of rabbit brush in the south- 

 western desert from New Mexico to California and north to Utah and 



Fig. 116. Bloom of the tall ragweed. 



