250 East and West 
marked resemblances; Pink as much at home 
where the bouncing-bet grows by the road- 
side as where the Indian pink blooms in the 
cafions of the Sierra; Rose, Saxifrage, Milk- 
weed, and Lobelia, strong clans every one 
and no more Eastern than Western; Mustard, 
carrying the sign of the cross over the con- 
tinent like the Padres of New Spain; Parsley 
and Composites, immense orders numbering 
thousands of species, to which belong the 
‘““masses’” among the flowers. 
While cosmopolitan, the Pea family is far 
better represented in the West, which has even 
been called the Lupine region. Not only the 
lupines, but the mesquites, acacias, and loco- 
weeds, which belong to suborders, are dom- 
inant in the South-West, and in Mexico the 
number and variety of leguminous trees is far 
more noticeable. Of the Waterleaf we know 
very little in the East while in California and 
Arizona its phacelias and nemophilas are 
among the most abundant flowers. The same 
is true of the Phlox family, and the gilias 
which are its important genus might be 
called typical Western flowers. Mallow, 
Buckthorn, Poppy, and Borage one comes to 
associate with the West; the Evening Prim- 
rose has many more representatives there; 
