68 CALIFORNIA DESERT TRAILS 



From the bladder-pod of February to the lowly but 

 lovely navarretia that in midsummer tints wide 

 spaces with its delicate harebell blue, there is an 

 unbroken flow of color. Any one who may find him- 

 self on the desert in spring, especially if it be a spring 

 following a winter of good rainfall (as rainfall goes 

 on the desert) may count on an experience of wild 

 flowers that, if he is a stranger, will yield him a 

 memorable and surprising impression.^ 



1 In an Appendix are given brief descriptions of other desert plants, " 

 by which many, at least, of them may be identified. 



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