Nature and science on the Pacific coast : a guide-book for scientific travelers in the West . PLATE XX Spanish Bayonet, Yucca (Hesperoyucca)whipplei, a Conspicuous Member of theChaparral Belt of Southern California. ThePanicle of Heavily Fragrant, White FlowersKises Eight or Ten Feet Above the DenseCluster of Stiff, Sword-like Leaves at theBase. The Method of Fertilization by thePronuba Moth Which Lays Its Eggs in theFlower Is a Striking Example of Interde-pendence of Plant and by Harley P. PLATE XXI Tree Yucca, Yucca (Cleistoi/ucca) arbores-cens, Characteristic of
Nature and science on the Pacific coast : a guide-book for scientific travelers in the West . PLATE XX Spanish Bayonet, Yucca (Hesperoyucca)whipplei, a Conspicuous Member of theChaparral Belt of Southern California. ThePanicle of Heavily Fragrant, White FlowersKises Eight or Ten Feet Above the DenseCluster of Stiff, Sword-like Leaves at theBase. The Method of Fertilization by thePronuba Moth Which Lays Its Eggs in theFlower Is a Striking Example of Interde-pendence of Plant and by Harley P. PLATE XXI Tree Yucca, Yucca (Cleistoi/ucca) arbores-cens, Characteristic of Certain Levels on theMohave Desert. Often Eeferred to as aPalm or even as a Cactus-Palm, It is Some-what Surprising to Find That This Tree,Reaching a Height of Twenty-five Feet, IsBotanically a Member of the Lily Desert Wood-rat (Neotoma desertornm)Feeds on the Young Leaves and the Early Times the Indians of the MohaveDesert Pounded the Small, Dry, Black SeedsInto a Meal for by Harley P. Chandler. Flora of the Pacific Coaststate and is especially beautiful in summer andautumn when thousancis of miles of foothill slopeare suffused with the warm reddish-brown tints ofits fading bloom. This southern chaparral also in-cludes the scrub oak (Quercus dumosa), manyspecies of Ceanothiis, Arctostaphylos, and Artemisia,as well as other elements. Of economic as well asbiologic interest are two shrubby species of Salvia,S. apiana, the white sage, and 5. mellifera, known asblack sage. Bot
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