California Fruits and Flowers. 125 



CEREUS. 



Cereus includes over 200 species of the most beautiful cacti, 

 the most of them producing an abundance of brilliant colored or 

 exquisitely tinted flowers. Some are delicate trailing plants, 

 others are erect and rigid, in the giant cactus attaining a height 

 of sixty feet. Many of the species are beautiful and curious in 

 themselves, not needing to blossom to repay the attention be- 

 stowed upon them . 



C. Emoryi Engelm. The Velvet Cactus is a cylindrical species 

 covered with slender yellow spines, when young so soft and flex- 

 ible as to suggest its popular name. The flowers are greenish 

 yellow, not showy. In the United States only found near San 

 Diego. 



C. Engelm anni Parry. One of the most beautiful of the 

 Cushion Cacti, with long white or rich brown spines, growing in 

 clusters of few to many cylindrical heads a few inches tall, and 

 bearing numerous large and bright magenta colored flowers. 

 The fruit is edible, an inch in diameter, possessing the flavor of 

 the strawberry. 



C. giganteus Engelm. The Giant Cactus is the largest species 

 known. Attains to a height of sixty feet, bearing large flowers 

 and edible fruit. 



CHAENACTIS. 



C. artemisiaefolia Gray. A viscid-pubescent annual, one 

 to five feet tall, bushy, with white or flesh-colored heads of com- 

 posite flowers, an inch in diameter. 



C. tenuifolia Nuttall. An erect or decumbent annual, a 

 span to a foot high with composite heads of flowers an inch 

 across, of a lemon yellow approaching orange in the center * A 

 coarse but rather showy plant, like the preceding, remaining 

 long in flower. 



CHAMAECYPARIS. 



C. Lawsoniana Parlat. The Lawson Cypress is one of the 

 most beautiful of the many native trees of the Pacific Coast, and 

 is highly valued for its ornamental qualities. It sometimes at- 

 tain a height of 150 feet. 



CHILOPSIS. 



C. saligna Don. The Desert Willow is a graceful willow- 

 like shrub, related to the Catalpa, with showy white flowers two 

 inches long, veined with purple. 



CHLOROGALUM. 



C. angustifolium Kellogg. Flowers white with yellowish- 

 green lines. 



C. parviflorum Walson. Flowering stems from six inches 

 to six feet tall. Flowers not showy. 



