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all are common in the end. Then the various 
composite shrubs, of which the encelia is the 
handsomest, are covered with their yellow 
flowers, so that the hills in places are coloured 
by them as by the black mustard in California 
and the ground is thickly sprinkled with the 
golden baeria, the little townsendia, and the 
escobita. Eschscholtzias and gilias are abun- 
dant in the river bottom, and red and yellow 
monkey flowers in the rocky gorges. The 
mariposas bloom on the mesas and the lark- 
spurs on the hillsides: among them the pale 
sky-blue larkspur (D. azureum), one of the 
most exquisite flowers in the West, and the 
brilliant orange-red mariposa—one pale and 
ethereal, the other, a hot flame. By the time 
the cacti have begun to bloom, members of 
the composite family have become very 
numerous, and being exceedingly difficult of 
identification are apt to be designated, by 
any but very painstaking botanists, merely 
as yellow or white composites, especially as 
no systematic botany of Arizona has ever been 
published. After all why should they have 
individual names? Like the units of an army, 
it is enough perhaps to know that they belong 
to such a regiment and such a company. 
It is the shrubs and trees, and particularly 
