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brown and crowded along their upper edges with glorious cups of 

 rosy carmine. Easily recognized by the excessively long spines 

 of its flat joints is the GRIZZLY BEAR CACTUS {Opuntia 

 erinacea). This Cactus is particularly interesting as its flowers 

 may be either bright pink or soft yellow on different plants. . . . 

 In this world of picturesque grandeur are many beautiful annual 

 plants. The pure white PINCUSHION FLOWER {Chaenactis 

 douglasii) , the white, flushed pink RAFINESQUIA (Rafines- 

 quia neomexicana) , and the clear canary yellow SNAKE'S 

 HEAD (Malacothrix coulteri) are here; so too, are both the pale 

 blue and the dark purple WILD HELIOTROPES (Phacelia 

 tanacetifolia and Phacelia crenulata). And LUPINES! Hosts of 

 them in all shades of colorful tintings from pure white to deepest 

 royal purple. 



The picturesque gold mining town of Oatman is passed ere 

 the summit of the mountain is reached where a marked change 

 in vegetation is to be noted. 



A real tree and the only "Evergreen" of the region is the 

 DESERT JUNIPER (Juniperns utahensis). A thing of rugged 

 beauty, symmetrical of habit, and mantled in light green foliage, 

 very profusely begemmed with luminance of silvery berries. 

 This Juniper, locally known as Cedar, is a prevailing tree of 

 desert mountains and usually found in close association with 

 the more famous Pinyon Pine. . . . Bold clumps of stiffly curved 

 leaves resembling the pampas grass of gardens are to be recog- 

 nized as BEAR GRASS (Nolina bigelovii). As the season ad- 

 vances, long straw-colored flower stalks bear congested com- 

 pound panicles of thousands of tiny, creamy white liliaceous 

 blossoms above the dark green foliage. . . . GOLDEN STEN- 

 OTOPSIS (Stenotopsis linear if olius) is a straggling, sticky shrub 

 common enough on desert mountain slopes. The narrow, 

 fascicled leaves, strongly odoriferous of balsam, grow on 

 fastigate branches which, forming a flat top, are surmounted by 

 bright yellow, raggedly-rayed composite flowers. . . . Vividly 

 contrasting with the somber blackness of its setting is the pure 

 white INCIENSO (Encelia farinosa). From its woody trunk 

 spring many short branches bearing terminal whorls of silver 

 white leaves and loose cymes of golden yellow blossoms. . . . The 

 most delightful of all desert plants is the DESERT LILY 

 (Hesperocallis undulata). This Easter Lily of the wilds sends up, 



