bristliness

Updated: May 1, 2025

For the vegetation of Lower California makes up in bristliness what it lacks in luxuriance. Bush cactuses, so prickly that it makes one's eyes smart to look at them, and bunch cactuses, in wads of thorns as large as a bushel-basket, swarm everywhere.

David Starr Jordan - The Story of the Innumerable Company, and Other Sketches