Here, as in the Mohave Desert, are found the leafless, thickly spined forms of the cactus family.

We were discussing a point in the pacific science of botany: the relationship of the different forms of the cactus family.

It is a plant of the cactus family, as native to America as is Ashley's peculiar sense of beauty which you won't acknowledge.

"It is the bisnaga, sometimes called the 'niggerhead,' belonging to the cactus family, a plant that is ever hailed with joy by the thirsty traveler."