. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. [ic)-orJiamn>(s, Celtis,Krameria, Acacia, liandia, Stegnosplierma, Franl-enia, etc), while con-siderable tiacts are sparsely occupied by straggling tufts of the Sonorau. Fig. 4—Ileyoud Enciiiaa desert—the aaguesa. greasewood, or creosote bush {Larrea tridentata), whose minute butbright green leafage relieves that prevailing gray of the landscape inwhich the lighter greens of the paloverde and cactus stems are lost. Intermingling with the woody trees and shrubs in most stations, andreplacing
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. [ic)-orJiamn>(s, Celtis,Krameria, Acacia, liandia, Stegnosplierma, Franl-enia, etc), while con-siderable tiacts are sparsely occupied by straggling tufts of the Sonorau. Fig. 4—Ileyoud Enciiiaa desert—the aaguesa. greasewood, or creosote bush {Larrea tridentata), whose minute butbright green leafage relieves that prevailing gray of the landscape inwhich the lighter greens of the paloverde and cactus stems are lost. Intermingling with the woody trees and shrubs in most stations, andreplacing them in some, are the conspicuous and characteristic cactiin a score of forms. East of Desierto Encinas, and sometimes westof it, these are dominated bj^ the saguaro (Cereiis {/iyanteus), thoughthroughout most of Seriland the related saguesa {Cereiis pringlcii?)prevails. The saguaro is a fluted and thorn decked column, 1 foot to 3feet in diameter and 10 to GO feet in height, sometimes branchinginto a candelabrum, while the still more monstrous saguesa (figure 4)usually consists of from three to ten such columns springing from a17 ETII 3 34 THE SERI INDIANS [eih. ann 17 single root; both are masses of watery pulp, revived aud renewedduring each humid season, and
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