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yellow, maturing to small, round, woolly seed-vessels. Blooms 

 from mid-spring to midsummer. 

 Lycium andersonii. A strong bush usually 4 or 5 feet high, but in 

 open desert a low patch of stiff intertangled stems. Leaves 

 small, gray: flowers few and small, tubular, pale lilac: fruit a 

 small, transparent, edible (but insipid) red berry. Blooms in 

 mid-spring. 



Malvastrum rotundifoHum. Five-spot. A small, upstanding, 

 hairy plant, often branching, with roundish leaves and hand- 

 some cup- or globe-shaped flowers of pale lilac with a carmine 

 spot at base of each of the five petals. Blooms in late spring. 



Martynia proboscidea. Elephant's trunk. Devil's claw. A rank, 

 weedy plant, not common, with large, roundish leaves and a 

 few handsome flowers, white with yellow and purple markings. 

 The seed-vessels are disproportionately large, from 6 to 10 

 inches long, curved and tapering, splitting as they dry into two 

 long, springy horns connected at base. Blooms in summer and 

 into autumn. 



Mentzelia involucrata. A plant of the open desert, a foot or more 

 high, with thistly-looking, gray leaves and very handsome, 

 large, satiny flowers, white or creamy with fine vermilion pen- 

 cilling. Blooms in mid-spring. 



Mirabilis aspera. A small, bushy plant with slender branching 

 stems and grayish leaves, found near the base of mountains. 

 Flowers white, primrose-like, opening at evening. Blooms in 

 late spring. 



Mohavea viscida. A small, hairy plant with straight, usually 

 single stem and narrow leaves. Flowers large, deep cup-shaped, 

 satiny, greenish-creamy with small purple dots: petals saw- 

 edged. Blooms in mid-spring. 



Nama demissum. A pretty little mat-like plant, sending out 

 spoke-like arms at ends of which are small carmine flowers. 

 Blooms in mid-spring. 



Navarretia virgata. A small, dried-out-looking plant of the open 

 desert. Leaves inconspicuous: flowers numerous, pale bright 

 blue. The last of the noticeable spring flowers, continuing into 

 early summer. 



Nicotiana bigelovii. Coyote tobacco. A many-stemmed plant, I 

 to 2 feet high, with dark-green leaves and white, narrow-tubu- 

 lar flowers. Blooms midsummer to autumn. 



