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patches cover the lava as with a bit of rich 
brocade. Soon brodizas appear and the small 
red pentstemon with its pale green leaves, 
a plant so exquisite, so chaste, that when you 
come upon it for the first time it is as if you 
had discovered a rare old jewel lying upon 
the rock. Larger red pentstemons bloom later 
in the season which, though handsome, are 
coarse compared with this. Now comes a 
salmon-pink mallow drooping gracefully over 
andesite cliffs, and by the end of the month 
the first eschscholtzias, blue phacelias, sal- 
vias, yellow mentzelias, and pink gilias have 
appeared. 
March brings lupines, white phlox, ane- 
mones, and castilleias in profusion, saxifrage, 
verbena—one of the most delightful wild 
flowers of Arizona,—yellow baeria, white les- 
' singia, and magenta escobitas, dainty cream- 
cups, white daisies, lavender flea-bane, purple 
asters, evening primroses large and small, 
purple phacelias, blue gilias, portulaca, and 
whispering bells, while the encelia blossoms 
here and there on the slopes and the ground 
is starred with the low growing white and 
lavender townsendia. Not until April is 
there a profusion of flowers, for here as in 
California, all appear rare at first and nearly 
