FLAMING POPPY. Petals fugacious. 



HEDGEHOG CACTUS. Showy with green stig- 

 mas; the plant a cluster of short, cylindrical 

 heads. 



PIMPERNEL. Wheel-shaped, on thread-like 

 axillary footstalks. 



3. Flowers composite; herbs 



MILK THISTLE. With thistle-like heads of 

 tubular florets. Leaves blotched with 

 white. 



WESTERX THISTLE. Thistle-like heads, soli- 

 tary on long peduncles. 



4. Shrubs, Climbing Vines or Trees 



SWEET SHRUB. Petals, sepals, and stamens 

 passing into one another. 



WILD GOOSEBERRY. Drooping in few-flow- 

 ered racemes, scattered along prickly 

 branches; a shrub. 



PRIDE OF CALIFORNIA. Pea-like, the banner 

 (an inch long) leaning back upon the flower 

 stalk. A vine. 



OCOTILLO. Tubular in terminal spikes, on 

 thorny, whip-like, leafy stalks; a desert 

 shrub. 



SCARLET HONEYSUCKLE. 2-lipped, and nar- 

 row, stamens and pistils included in pro- 

 truding lower lip. Vine-like. 



CHUPAROSA. Tubular, 2-lipped; an almost 

 leafless desert shrub. 



ARROW-WEED. Composite, small, without 

 rays, clustered; a grayish shrub of wet 

 places. 



PINK 



1. Flowers clustered or racemose 



TWTNING WILD HYACINTH. In a many-flow- 

 ered umbel at the top of a leafless, twisting, 

 vine-like stem. 

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