Photo by D. Basil W. Alexander 

 ANOTHER VIEW OF THE CACTI IN SAN VICENTE CANON, LOWER CALIFORNIA, MEXICO, 



SHOWING THEIR IMMENSE SIZE 



Mexico has a majority of the more than 500 species of cacti, ranging from the candelabra, 

 with its great branches, which give it its name, and the organ, with its fluted pipes and 

 thorns with saw-tooth edges, to the creeping kinds that scarcely rise above the ground. 



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