NOTICEAHLE PLANTS 61 



on straight stalks that project well above the rest of 

 the plant. Blooms in mid-spring. 



Encelia farinosa. Incense bush, White brittle bush, Yerba 

 de incienso. One of the commonest of desert plants in 

 the neighborhood of mountains, in form a compact 

 rounded bush 2 to 3 feet high. Leaves silver-gray, 

 firm in texture: flowers like those of E. calif ornica. 

 The plant exudes drops of amber-colored gum. Blooms 

 in mid-spring. 



Ephedra californica. Desert tea, Canutillo. A shrub 2 to 

 3 feet high, entirely composed of straight, smooth, dark- 

 green stems without leaves. Flowers inconspicuous. 



Eremiastrum bellioides. Desert star. A small prostrate 

 plant, hardly noticeable except for its pretty, daisy- 

 like flowers, borne on radiating horizontal stems. 

 Blooms in mid-spring. 



Eremocarya micrantha. A small, slender herb with small 

 linear leaves and tiny white flowers. It dries to a 

 whitish, woolly-looking little plant that is greedily 

 eaten by horses. The root yields a bright madder 

 stain. Blooms in early spring. 



Eriodictyon tomentosum. Yerba santa. A bush 5 or 6 feet 

 high, found in cafions, with narrowish, gray-green, 

 woolly leaves and clusters of lavender funnel-shaped 

 flowers. (It is the coast species, E. glutinosum, or 

 E. californicitm, with smooth, dark-green, sticky leaves, 

 that was so highly valued for its medicinal properties 

 by the Spanish Calif ornians.) Blooms in late spring. 



Eriogonum inflatum. Bottle plant, Desert trumpet. A plant 

 up to 3 feet high, with a few slender, straight, strag- 

 gling stems that end in elongated swellings. Leaves 

 heart-shaped, growing only at base: flowers small, 

 yellowish. Blooms in mid-spring. 



Eulobus californicus. A slender, strai-^ht. spindling plant, 

 a foot or so high, with small yellow flowers and very 

 narrow straight seed-vessels. Blooms in late spring. 



Euphorbia polycarpa. Rattlesnake Aveed. Golondrina. A 

 flat-growing, mat-like plant with radiating reddish stems 



