68 THE FANTASTIC CLAN 



commoner varieties of the low mountains and foothills on 

 the desert. 



Salmon Flowered Hedgehog Cactus 



(Echinocereus Leeanus) 



Northern Mexico 



A lustrous mass of flame-colored blossoms attracts our 

 attention next, as we speed along the highway intent on 

 making camp for the night across the United States line 

 from Mexico. It Is the Salmon Flowered Hedgehog Cactus, 

 whose large, wide-spreading petals (two or three inches 

 across the flower), are of a brilliant salmon hue, showy and 

 attractive, and remain open for several days at a time in 

 the spring, not even closing at night. The blossoms are 

 borne near the tips of the stems, and as many as ten or twelve 

 are in bloom at a time. Though not native to the United 

 States, the Salmon Flowered Hedgehog Is occasionally found 

 In cactus gardens In Arizona and California, and is well 

 known to cactus connoisseurs and gardens in Europe. The 

 species was named Leeanus in honor of James Lee of Eng- 

 land, who presented the type specimen to the Royal Botanic 

 Gardens at Kew about 1842. 



Rose's Hedgehog Cactus (Echinocereus Rosei) 



Southeastern Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, 

 and Northern Mexico 



We have crossed the boundary line into the United States 

 at Nogales, Arizona, and now in the early morning sunlight 

 are approaching the low Gila Range In southeastern Arizona. 

 We have come to study a cactus which closely resembles that 

 fierce little fellow, the Spiny Hedgehog Cactus, from which 

 it differs in having very short and sparse hairs on the fruit and 



