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Descriptive Flora 



Nymphaea microcarpa Miller and Standley. Yellow Pond Lily. 



Cow Lily. "Nenufar". Spatter-dock. 



These are the attractive golden cups that usually stand a 

 few inches above the surface of the water or float idly amidst 

 shining green patches of floating " Lily-pads" in slow moving 

 streams or stagnant pools. Flowers stiff and waxy, resembling a 

 yellowish-green cup about two inches across and with two circles 

 each of three broad, concave, thick petal-like sepals. Inside of 

 this yellow bowl are the small but real, short, oblong, fleshy 

 stamen-like petals forming a ring around the thick pistil which 

 looks like a big, thick, flat-topped button. Under and around the 

 disk shaped stigma are several rows or layers of flat stamens 

 which recurve at maturity, forming a thick fringe which fills the 

 cup. The genus name is derived from the Greek nymphaea 

 meaning water nymph. 



BERBERIDACEAE. Barberry Family. 



PODOPHYLLACEAE. Barberry Family. In Small's Flora. 

 Herberts trifoliolata Moric. Agarita "Agrito" Chaparral Berry. 



Evergreen bush with alternate, spiny, 3-foliolate leaves and 

 clusters of small, yellow, honey-fragrant flowers that remind 

 one of miniature roses.- Leaflets stiff, with three to seven spine- 

 toothed lobes. Petals six. Stamens six. Fruit a red, acid, stony, 

 edible berry, the size of a pea, gathered in April and May for 

 making wines and jellies. Wood and roots yellow and used for 

 making a yellow dye. February to April. In dry soil and on 

 stony hillsides. Bushes frequently grow close up to mesquite 

 trunks in association with other well-armed shrubs. 



P AP AVE RACE AE. Poppy Family. 



Argemone alba Lestib. White Prickly Poppy. Mexican Poppy. 



"Amapola Mexicana" 

 Thistle-like, stout, prickly-stemmed, erect plants with big 

 paper-white flowers. Stem leaves alternate. Blades two to six 



