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racemes of delicate white star-like blossoms 
which in an incredibly short time are replaced 
by spiny green fruit expanding before one’s 
very eyes until, the size of an orange, they 
hang over the trail. 
In open spots in the chaparral and along 
the roads, the wild peony flourishes in early 
winter, a vigorous and rather attractive 
plant with coarse red flowers, and the Cali- 
fornia four-o’clock opens its magenta blos- 
soms in the late afternoon, while, bordering 
hillside pastures, the tall lupine lifts its 
purple racemes above a foliage distinguished 
for its beauty. It is said that there are no 
rare flowers in Southern California. Cer- 
tainly, flowers for the most part grow in 
greater profusion than in the East, or as only 
our fall composites do. They appear in 
masses, colouring the fields and hillsides with 
their bloom. Lupines, poppies, and brodizas 
thrive with the abundance of daisies, golden- 
rod, and asters with us. In January certain 
little hilltops and sunny slopes are blue with 
the brodiza, a delicate lily, while every- 
where in the shade are dense patches of hedge 
nettle, a mint with rose-purple flowers. Both 
are exquisite blossoms though as common as 
the black mustard and wild radish in the 
