Part 5

Rainbow echinocereus _Echinocereus pectinatus_ 51 Rock-nettle _Eucnide urens_ 45

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Sacahuista _Nolina microcarpa_ 12 Sacred datura _Datura meteloides_ 70 Saguaro _Carnegiea gigantea_ 47 Sand-verbena _Abronia villosa_ 19 Santa Fe phlox _Phlox nana_ 64 Senna _Cassia covesii_ 30 Silverleaf enceliopsis _Enceliopsis argophylla_ 88 Silverleaf nightshade _Solanum elaeagnifolium_ 69 Smoke-thorn _Dalea spinosa_ 35 Snake-weed _Gutierrezia lucida_ 81 Soaptree yucca _Yucca elata_ 8 Sotol _Dasylirion wheeleri_ 13 Spectaclepod _Dithyrea wislizenii_ 23 Starflower _Gilia longiflora_ 65 Strawberry echinocereus _Echinocereus engelmannii_ 50

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Tesota _Olneya tesota_ 37 Torrey yucca _Yucca torreyi_ 10 Trailing-four-o’clock _Allionia incarnata_ 18 Tree tobacco _Nicotiana glauca_ 71 Trumpet-bush _Tecoma stans_ 78

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Walkingstick cholla _Opuntia spinosior_ 60 Western-wallflower _Erysimum capitatum_ 25 Whipple cholla _Opuntia whipplei_ 59 White cupfruit _Calycoseris wrightii_ 99 Woolly loco _Astragalus mollissimus_ 38

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Yellow mentzelia _Mentzelia pumila_ 44 Yellow pitaya echinocereus _Echinocereus dasyacanthus_ 52

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Transcriber’s Notes

--Retained publication information from the printed edition: this eBook is public-domain in the country of publication.

--Corrected a few palpable typographical errors.

--Transcribed some text from illustrations, for the sake of the text versions.

--Added a Table of Contents based on headings in the text.

--Added page numbers for convenient reference.

--In the text versions only, text in italics is delimited by _underscores_.

--Provided in {curly brackets} a conjectural completion of the truncated “Joshua Tree” entry, based on information from other published sources.