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bell-shaped flowers. Common in parts of the desert mountains. 

 Blooms in mid-spring. 



Amsinckia spectabilis. Fiddle-head: Span., Zacate gordo. A very 

 common, small, hairy, slender-stemmed plant, with narrow 

 leaves and small orange flowers on stalks that curl at the tip. 

 Blooms in early and mid-spring. 



Anemopsis calif ornica. Span., Yerba mansa. A low, rank-growing 

 plant found only in damp places. Leaves large and coarse: flow- 

 ers large, white, with protruding conical centre. Blooms in 

 mid-spring. 



Aphyllon cooperi. Cancer-root. A low, succulent plant, somewhat 

 like a stalk of asparagus, bearing a number of small, purplish 

 flowers. The plant is a parasite, growing on the roots of other 

 plants. Not common. Blooms in late summer. 



Argemone hispida. Thistle poppy: Span., Cardo, Chicalote. A 

 prickly, gray or bluish leafed, thistly looking plant, i or 2 feet 

 high, with large, fragile flowers, white with yellow centre. 

 Blooms in mid- and late summer. 



Aster orcuttii. A hardy looking plant of the driest desert caiions, 

 I to 2 feet high ; rather rare. Leaves stiff" and paper-like, with 

 prickly-toothed edges : flowers large and handsome, of lavender 

 rays with yellow centre. Blooms in early summer. 



Astragalus coccineus. A low plant with almost white stem and 

 leaves and handsome cardinal-red flowers. Found in the desert 

 mountains, but rare. Blooms in mid-spring. 



Atriplex canescens. Salt-bush, Shad-scale. A good-sized roundish 

 bush with small, grayish leaves, inconspicuous flowers, and 

 tassels of striking, bright green seed-vessels. Blooms in early 

 summer. 



Atriplex hymenelytra. Desert holly. A stiff, shrubby plant i or 2 

 feet high, with whitish, holly-like leaves and inconspicuous 

 flowers. Found in alkaline soil in dry caiions or on open desert. 

 Blooms in mid-spring. 



Atriplex lentiformis. Quail-bush. A large gray bush very common 

 on silt or alkaline soil, up to 15 feet high, and usually of smooth, 

 dome-shaped outline. Flowers inconspicuous. Blooms in mid- 

 spring. 



Baileya pauciradiata. Cotton-plant. A small, loosely growing 

 plant with pale gray-green stems, narrow woolly leaves, and 

 small, lemon-yellow flowers. Blooms in mid- and late summer. 



Bebbia juncea. A roundish, dark green bush a foot or two high, 



