CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY NO. 16 



macrocarpa and Quercus Kelloggii, and whose slopes are covered with the. 

 black loam of ages of decaying vegetation. At the hotel we saw a single 

 specimen in a bouquet of a lily of striking peculiarities. The lady at the 

 hotel told me they grew in the meadows. We searched diligently for any 

 lilies in the meadows and found none, and went home disappointed. The 

 doctor has always insisted that the lily is a new one. I have also been 

 sceptical about it, but because of the knowledge of my friend I felt com- 

 pelled to settle the matter one way or the other. So on a special trip to the 

 mountain in July, 1929, I determined to get it. Arriving at the hotel I 

 fortunately met Mr. Rausch, the one man who knew all about the lily. He 

 informed me that it grew in the pine woods in dan Aide, which was a 

 revelation to me, and which would seem to place tin ! l! ; in the Humboldtii 

 class. He said it was common in tin -pring hut that the cattle ate it off, but 

 he had many growing on his place and in bloom. So over we posted and saw 

 at least 50 of them in bloom. He kindly let me get two plants in bloom for 

 herbarium specimens, and gave me three bull*-, whirl) are now growing. I 

 suppose all the lilies are really grown from root stocks or rhizomes, but in 

 Humboldtii the rhizome is reduced to a mere rudiment if it exists at all, for 

 the roots come out from the center of the base, and the so-called bulb is not 

 oblique, and is made up of several thick and rounded scapes closely aggre- 

 gated, which are crimped or opiate near the Iaim : n>\ :.! out an inch long, 

 and the leaves are whorled. In Lilium Parryi there is a true rhizome 2 to 4 

 inches long covered with short and ovate bulb-like scales, which like the 

 oilier is buried deeply in the ground, 1 _; rent, being wet 



meadows, wink that wf Ii - -' ik muck. The 



bulbs of Lilum Fairchildi are decidedly oblique, and therefore a reduced 

 rhizome, but forming ,.u en . , or oval bulb or < luster of very many flattened 

 and scale-like flakes, h irdh n inch Long and crimp* I in the middle. Oth- 

 erwise the plants resemble Humboldtii so closely as to be taken for that 

 species except that die spots on the petals are black and without margins. 

 The petals are coded so as to form a circle and are orange in color, and 

 linear and acuminate at tip, and about 4 inches long. The buds are acumi- 

 nate and yellowish. The petals are without pubescence or raised processes. 

 The plants are 4-6 feet high and ervct ;md Miming, single, with pyramidal 

 inflorescence (in appearance, though reallv racemose), rarely more than 

 3-flowered. The leaves are about 12 in a whorl, and smooth and shining, 

 and 4-6 inches long. I take it as pleasure to name this fine lily after its real 

 discoverer, Dr. J. H. Fairchild, of Claremont. 



Allium Palmeri Watson. The type of this species is from New Mexico. 

 It seems to have been collected but seldom. 1 have it now from the Kaibab 

 growing among the junipers on the western slope. That Watson was right 

 in placing it near to bisceptrum is evident. 'Johnston has collected the 

 species at Granite Well, near Randsburg, California. The species arrests 

 one's attention by its deep pink or purple flowers, at once suggesting A. 

 T ' has the same tendency for the flowers to have dark midribs 

 1 \\ t> • 'ip il , i' a.m- it i t ] - V, tson «' "fi- 

 at 8 inches 'high. 1 hm.n find tlicm over 6 inches high, 



