E. FASCICULATUM. 2 to 3 ft. Dense, bushy habit. Leaves grayish. Flowers white tinged 
with pink. Flowering from May to October. Central and southern California. 
E. FASCICULATUM var. FOLIOLOSUM. 2 to 3 ft. Broad, spreading habit. Small, bright 
green leaves. Flowers cream-white tinged with pink. Lower mountain slopes of southern 
California. 
E. LATIFOLIUM. Coast Buckwheat. 18 in. Broad, gray-white basal leaves. Large compact 
heads of white to pale pink flowers. Coastal. 
EUROTIA LANATA. Winter Fat. 1 to 3 ft. Erect or spreading. Covered with a dense coating 
of white hairs. Leaves few. Silvery-white, woolly seed bracts. Particularly decorative in 
seed. Sub-alkaline soil, mesas and flats. Mohave Desert. 
FREMONTIA CALIFORNICA. 6 to 15 ft. Loose-branched. Flowers lemon yellow. Leaves 
smaller than in F. mexicana. Dry foothills of Central and Southern California. 
GALVESIA SPECIOSA. (Antirrhinum speciosum). To 3 ft. Scarlet ‘snap-dragon” flowers. 
Slender branches. Should be cut back severely after blooming. Rocky canyons of Santa 
Barbara Channel Islands. 50 cents per packet. 
LEPTODACTYLON CALIFORNICUM. Prickly Phlox. 1 to 3Y2 ft. Stiff, upright habit. Spiny 
leaves. Flowers clear rose-madder, in rounded clusters, from February to July. Excellent 
for dry, sunny banks. South-central and southern California. 50 cents per packet. 
PINUS RADIATA. Monterey Pine. To 70 ft. Slender trees with flattened tops in age. Central 
and north-southern coast in a few scattered places. 
P, SABINIANA. Digger Pine. To 90 ft. Trunk often parting in a cluster of erect branches. 
Needles drooping. Great, ornamental cones. Sierra foothills. 
P.TORREYANA. Torrey Pine. 15 to 35 ft. Low, crooked or sprawling habit, especially 
) where exposed to strong winds. Local on San Diego Coast and Santa Rosa Island. 
PSILOSTROPHE COOPERI. ‘Paper Flower’’. 18in. Bushy habit. Leaves and stems white- 
gray. Flowers deep yellow, with outer rays folded back against the stems, going straw- 
colored. Excellent for drying. Local on southern California deserts. 50 cents per packet. 
RIBES AUREUM var. GRACILLIMUM. Golden Currant. To 5 ft. Bright yellow flowers. Orange 
to reddish berries. A coastal form of R. aureum. i 
R. CALIFORNICUM var. HESPERIUM. To 4 ft. Rounded gooseberry bushes. Flowers purple- 
ish. Fruits rounded, deep red and covered with short, hard spines. Canyons and chapar- 
ral southern California. 
SALAZARIA MEXICANA. Paper Bag Bush. To. 3 ft. Rounded shrubs, intricately branched. 
Stems gray-green, somewhat spine-like. Flowers deep, velvety purple and yellow, like 
little snap dragons. Bladder-like seed pods of ‘‘tissue paper’’ often tinged with rose, 
and carried together with the flowers. Washes and dry slopes. Mohave Desert. 
SALVIA APIANA. White Sage. 6 ft. Bushy habit. Handsome gray-white leaves. Five-foot 
spikes of small white flowers on mauve-coloured stems. Strongly aromatic. Southern 
California. 
STYRAX OFFICINALIS var CALIFORNICA. 3 to 8 ft. Erect habit. Flowers cream-white 
sweet-scented. Fruits resembling a small nut, white to begin with. Inner coast ranges, 
central California. d. 
TETRACOCCUS DIOICUS. 1% to 5 ft. Erect somewhat spreading habit. Flowers small. 
Leaves narrow, glossy, bright green. Fruit fluted and almost globular. An attractive 
shrub for the dry garden. South southern California. 
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PERENNIALS 
ABRONIA VILLOSA. Desert Sand Verbena. Prostrate habit. Stems to 3 ft. long. Flowers 
lilac-pink in globular heads 2 in. through. Sweet-scented. Southern California deserts. 
ANTIRRHINUM GLANDULOSUM. 4 ft. Numerous stout, upright stems from woody root- 
crown. Flowers rosy-pink and yellow closely packed and opening over a long period up 
the slender flower spikes. The whole plant is quite sticky. Central and North Southern 
California to 4000 ft. 
ARENARIA ACULEATA. Desert Sand-wort. 6 in. Bright green cushions of fine, stiff leaves, 
to 18 in. across. Rock clefts in Southern California deserts. 
ASTER ABATUS. Mohave Aster. 18 in. Large, translucent lavender flowers with golden 
centre, on stems 6 in. above the stiff gray foliage. Deserts of southern California. 50 cents 
per packet. : 
ATRIPLEX CALIFORNICA. Saltbush. 8 in. Prostrate, wiry stems, forming thick mats to 2 ft. 
across. Leaves gray-green, almost white. Sandy beaches and bluffs. Central and South- 
ern California coast. 
BAILEYA MULTIRADIATA. 12 in. White—woolly foliage. Flower-stems each carrying a 
single head of clear yellow flowers. Very amenable to garden conditions. Loose sandy 
soil. Southern California deserts. 
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