Ocotillo

[Rudolph C Troike]

Barry's quotation from Black's book about a farm gate included mention of
an "ocarillo". I wonder whether this was an inadvertent typo on Barry's
part, or whether Black mis-rendered the name "ocotillo", which is the
prevalent name around Arizona. In a land where few things grow straight,
they are often used for fences, and even precolonially were used for
ceilings of houses (a practice the Spanish picked up and continued).

        Rudy