RABBIT BRUSH. Small, without rays, flat- 

 clustered; bushy shrub. 



DESERT SAGE BRUSH. No rays, inconspicuous 

 leaves wedge-shaped, 3-toothed. Desert 

 and desert borders. 



4. Shrubs, Climbing Vines or Trees 



OREGON GRAPE. In terminal, clustered ra- 

 cemes; leaves odd-pinnate; a shrub. 



TREE POPPY. A shrub with willow-like leaves; 

 flowers solitary on the bfanchlets. 



BLADDER POD. In terminal racemes; soon 

 developing long-stalked, bladdery seed 

 pods; a shrub. 



YELLOW WILD CURRANT. Both calyx and 

 petals yellow; in green bracted racemes 

 scattered along the branches; a shrub. 



YELLOW LUPINE. Pea-like, in long racemes; 

 a shrub of the seaside sands. 



DEER- WEED. Pea-like, small, turning reddish, 

 in umbels. A woody perennial of the hills. 



MESQUIT. In dense, cylindric, narrow spikes. 



A desert tree. 

 CREOSOTE BUSH. Solitary, the 5 petals 



twisted edgewise to the light. A desert 



shrub. 

 RABBIT BRUSH. Composite; small, without 



rays, flat-clustered; a bushy shrub 'of the 



desert and desert borders. 

 CALIFORNIA SAGE BRUSH. Composite, no 



rays, inconspicuous, clustered, nodding in 



panicled racemes. An aromatic shrub 



with finely dissected leaves. 

 DESERT SAGE BRUSH. Composite, no rays, 



inconspicuous; leaves wedge-shaped, 3- 



toothed. Desert and desert borders. 

 STICKY MONKEY FLOWER. Funnel-form, with 



ragged-edged lobes, on axillary footstalks; 



salmon color. 

 YELLOW BEARD-TONGUE. Corolla 2-lipped, 



arched above, and gaping. 

 SQUAW BUSH. Small, in spike-like clusters be- 

 fore the leaves. A shrub. 



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