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expensive colored illustrations, be much to the 

 point. The best that is possible in this small book 

 is to transcribe from my larger volume, "California 

 Desert Trails," a fairly complete list of the desert 

 plants, the brief notes on which will serve to iden- 

 tify a good many of them. The "Western Wild 

 Flower Guide" of Mr. Charles F. Saunders (an 

 invaluable manual for anyone interested in Cali- 

 fornia's wild flowers) and the "Field Book of West- 

 ern Wild Flowers" of Miss Margaret Armstrong in 

 collaboration with J. Thornber, both of which are 

 illustrated, include a fair number of the noticeable 

 desert flowers, and will be found useful for 

 reference. 



