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in the creek beds, and at some points the species intermingle, but 

 each retains its character. B, pedtmcularis seems unique m its 

 liking for moist situations. 



Last spring I found a peculiar and beautiful hybrid, between Cah 

 ochorius Mmveamis and C pnlchellus. The species grow together 

 there, and my hybrid had the strong habit of C pukhellus, and a 

 yellow blossom, but the flower was open bell-shaped, and filled with 

 silken hair like C Maweantcs, 



Another peculiar Calochortus I observed high in the mountains, 

 near Anderson Valley, Mendocino County. It was C hdeiis van 

 ociilatiis, but very large-flowered. The gland, instead of being 

 simply lunate, was doubly so, as if two glands were side by side on 

 the base of each segment and connected. When the glands of Cal- 

 ochortus take such freaks it is hard to say on what the species are 

 to be based. In this case there were hundreds of specimens w^ith 

 doubly lunate glands, with intermediate ones down to the ordinary 

 for 



I had always thought of Brodicea coyigesta as having but one 

 flowering stalk from a bulb. I found this season some bulbs with 

 as many as four flower scapes. 



The heavy winter of last year had many results in the wild flow- 

 er world. In some localities it induced a profusion of flower growth 

 unprecedented. In others the cold injured many things. Lilium 

 Washing toyiianum of the Sierras fell far short of its usual magnifi- 

 cence. Early flowering stalks w^ere frozen down. In some places 

 there were no blossoms until nearly the first of September, and ev- 

 erywhere the bulbs dwindled in size. I should have imagined that 

 the abundant moisture would have produced a contrary result. 



Calochorhis pnlchellus is described as lemon-yellow. Last spring 

 I noticed that many had a dark spot on gland. I called the atten- 

 tion of Sereno Watson to the variation, and he considered it worthy 

 of a name — C, pnlchellus var. maculosus. 



East spring I grew some bulbs of Allium Palmeri, a Utah spe- 

 cies, and discovered quite a novel thing in their formation of offsets. 

 The offset, an almost perfect sphere, grows on a threadlike connec- 

 tion, and is carried to the surface of the ground, w^here by the dry- 

 ing of the connective it is left loose to seek its own destiny. In 

 growing the various Liliacea) I am constantly finding interesting 

 facts, and hope to solve some knotty points. 



