66 Our Araby 



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. 



Noma 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, 1 to 2 feet high, with dark-green leaves and 

 white, narrow-tubular flowers. Blooms midsummer to 

 autumn. 



Nolina parryi. A yucca-like plant of dry mountain-sides, 

 not common. Leaves long, narrow, spiky, bluish green: 

 flowers whitish, in a compact elongated cluster 2 or 3 

 feet long, on a tall stem rising from the centre of the 

 sheaf of leaves. Blooms in mid-spring. 



Oenothera gauraeflora. A small plant with straight, stifiF, 

 usually single stem bearing a cluster of small pinkish 

 flowers. The bark is white and shreddy and the seed- 

 vessels tongue-like and curved. Blooms in late spring. 



Oenothera pallida. Sun-cups. A slender-stemmed plant 

 with rather narrow, pointed and toothed leaves. Flowers 

 bright yellow: seed-vessels curly with double twist. 

 Blooms in mid- and late spring. 



Oenothera scapoidea. A small plant with single stem 6 to 

 8 inches high, and a cluster of little pinkish flowers. 

 One of the earliest spring flowers but blooms on into 

 early summer. 



Oenothera trichocalyx. Evening primrose. Yerba salada. 

 A low, strong, rather spreading plant with large, rather 

 narrow, grayish green leaves and very large fragrant 

 flowers, white (pink when faded) with sulphur-yellow 



