. Campfires on desert and lava . From a photograph by D. T. MacDougal The Spiny Smoke Tree. From a photograph by D. T. MacDougal The White Brittle-Bush PAPAGO TANKS AND THE LAVA FIELDS 183 but enough for our inquisitive purpose. To the taste, thefoliage is strongly aromatic, pungent and bitter, and re-calls the foliage of the common sage-brush {Artemisia).Apparently no animal eats the stems or foliage of theWhite Brittle-Bush; and we are very glad of it, for it istruly a soft and pleasing thing to contemplate on thescowling lava-fields. The mountain sheep doubtlessshared our views, since nearl
. Campfires on desert and lava . From a photograph by D. T. MacDougal The Spiny Smoke Tree. From a photograph by D. T. MacDougal The White Brittle-Bush PAPAGO TANKS AND THE LAVA FIELDS 183 but enough for our inquisitive purpose. To the taste, thefoliage is strongly aromatic, pungent and bitter, and re-calls the foliage of the common sage-brush {Artemisia).Apparently no animal eats the stems or foliage of theWhite Brittle-Bush; and we are very glad of it, for it istruly a soft and pleasing thing to contemplate on thescowling lava-fields. The mountain sheep doubtlessshared our views, since nearly every one killed was foundto have browsed amply on the slender, delicate dead flower-stalks of the last season that still adhered to the stems,and projected above the grayish-green mass. This bushis said to be widespread in the south-western desert, butI did not notice it an5rwhere outside that Pinacate-Sonoytaregion; which may have been my fault. Naturally, in such a wild and weird spot as the Pina-cate region, every plant, tree and living creature is ofinterest—rendered so by the
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