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a strong, rather unpleasant smell. Blooms throughout 

 summer. 



Perityle emoryi. A small plant found growing among 

 rocks. Flowers white, daisy-like. Blooms in mid-spring. 



Petalonyx thurberi. Sandpaper-plant. A low, rounded, 

 whitish bush with a peculiar roughness to the touch. 

 Leaves small, light-green, scaly: flowers profuse, light 

 yellowish green. Blooms in late spring. 



Phacelia campanularia. Canterbury bell. A small, usually 

 single-stemmed plant, with roundish, rather hairy leaves 

 and large, deep-purple, bell-shaped flowers. Found (on 

 the desert) only in caiions or near water. Blooms in 

 mid-spring. 



Phacelia sp. Wild heliotrope, Vervenia. A straggling, soft- 

 stemmed, rather hairy plant, up to 4 feet high, with 

 small, compound leaves and profuse, heliotrope-blue 

 flowers in curling clusters. Blooms early to late spring. 



Philibertia linearis. Twining milkweed. A strong creeper 

 found on willows or other strong supporting plants, 

 growing up to 6 or 8 feet high. Leaves few and grayish ; 

 flowers pale lavender, in a close rosette. Blooms in 

 mid-spring. 



Phoradendron calif ornicum. Mistletoe. A parasite very 

 common on the mesquit and other leguminous desert 

 trees. It is leafless, but has numerous small pink or 

 white berries. 



Phragmites communis. Carrizo. A reed-like grass or cane, 

 up to 10 feet high, with long, narrow leaves, found in 

 damp places on the open desert. 



Pluchea sericea. Arrowweed, Cachanilla. A straight- 

 growing, cane-like plant, up to 10 feet high, abundant 

 in damp places both in canons and on open desert. 

 Leaves gray, narrow, willow-shaped: flowers small, 

 clustered, dull pinkish purple. Blooms in midsummer. 



Prosopis glandulosa. Mesquit. A wide-branching, thorny 

 tree, up to 20 feet high, found singly or in thickets. 

 Leaves of many leaflets, resembling small leaves of the 

 pepper-tree: flowers yellowish "spikes," (like pussy- 



