FOUQUIERA FAMILY. Fouquieriaceae. 
and forms close mats of foliage, sprinkled with light- 
orange or salmon-colored flowers, a quarter of an inch 
or more across, with fifteen to twenty, yellow stamens. 
The effect is something like Anagallis, Scarlet Pimpernel, 
hence the name. This is common in Yosemite and similar 
places, up to nine thousand feet. 
FOUQUIERA FAMILY. Fouquieriaceae. 
A very small family, with one genus and only a few 
species; natives of the Southwest and Mexico; the flowers 
are brilliant red, in terminal clusters; the sepals five, not 
united; the petals five, united into a tube, the lobes some- 
‘what spreading; the stamens ten to fifteen, protruding, 
inserted under the pistil; the ovary imperfectly three- 
celled; the styles three, long, somewhat united; the seeds 
three to six, oblong, flattened, surrounded by a mem- 
branous wing or long, white hairs. These plants are very 
puzzling, but interesting, and as they are not nearly related 
they have at varicus times been classified with other 
families. 
A magnificent desert shrub, when in 
Flaming Sword, full bloom, but strangely forbidding in 
Ocotillo, Candle 4 nect in spite of its beauty. Its many 
Flower ; : 
Foussira stiff stems, from six to twenty feet tall, 
spléndens entirely without branches, stand up stiffly 
Red from the root, like a bunch of wands, and 
Spring 
: are armed their whole length with terrible 
Ariz., Cal., New : : 3 
Wrox. thorns, which in the spring are masked 
- with beautiful foliage, like little apple 
leaves. From the tip of each wand springs a glorious 
cluster, from six to ten inches long, composed of hundreds 
of scarlet flowers, each about an inch long, and crowded 
closely together, suggesting a flame and waving to and 
fro in the wind with a startling effect against the pale 
desert sand. When the flowers and leaves are gone, the 
clumps of dry, thorny sticks look quite dead and it is hard 
to believe that they were so splendid early in the season. 
They make an impenetrable fence and are much used by 
the Indians for hedges. 
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