Title: Contributions from the New York Botanical Garden
Identifier: contributionsfro03newy (find matches)
Year: 1899- (1890s)
Authors: New York Botanical Garden
Subjects: Plants
Publisher: New York : The Garden
Contributing Library: New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

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i9o4) MAC DOUGAL—DELTA AND DESERT VEGETATION 55 The large number of species with laticiferous juices was especially noticeable, but with the exception of the dozen Cacti no plants with organs for the storage of water were seen, a fact possibly connected with the extremely low precipitation and low water content of the soil at all times. Seeds of a Cenchrus were very abundant and were w.-
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- Sam*- *► Fig. 6.—Desert of Baja California, looking westward from beach north of San Felipe Bay; Opuntia, Covillea, and Fouquiera. used by burrowing rodents as a means of fortification of the entrances to their burrows, in the same manner that the joints of the "cholla" are employed elsewhere. A mountain to the southwestward of San Felipe Bay was climbed and a summit reached at an elevation of over iooom. The granite slopes supported a sparse vegetation of such types as Mammillaria, Ephedra, Bur sera micro phylla, Aschpias albicans, Eriogonum infla-

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