Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . nizable from its small yellow flowers, anddense, dark, waxy foliage, is typical of large areas of thedesert, sometimes forming almost exclusive growths, but alsomingling with other vegetation at the borders of certain well-marked plant associations. Desert flowers are numerous in the exhibit; their namesand positions may best be learned from the accompanyingillustrations and diagram. How little do most of us realizethe literal truth of the much-quoted lines from GraysElegy. The desert, at least the desert of the southwesternUnited States, is indeed a paradise of flo
Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . nizable from its small yellow flowers, anddense, dark, waxy foliage, is typical of large areas of thedesert, sometimes forming almost exclusive growths, but alsomingling with other vegetation at the borders of certain well-marked plant associations. Desert flowers are numerous in the exhibit; their namesand positions may best be learned from the accompanyingillustrations and diagram. How little do most of us realizethe literal truth of the much-quoted lines from GraysElegy. The desert, at least the desert of the southwesternUnited States, is indeed a paradise of flowers during thebrief but abounding spring. Among representatives chosenfor the desert life group, and now standing in perpetual fifllbloom, are a purplish verbena, a yellow evening primrose, aspecies of California poppy, a desert mallow, a blue larks]) pinkish chickory, a familiar, golden, desert composite(EnccUa farinosa), and several others. For detailed infor-mation regarding many of these plants, an account of their. THE RIGHT END OF THE GROUP, SHOWING ALL OF THE PRONGHORNS 183
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