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exquisite sheen," and the blossoms have a delicate fragrance. It grows on 

 dry hills, or on the plains in dry, gravelly washes of torrential streams, in 

 southern Cahfornia and northward to Monterey. This plant has a peculiar 

 charm for the traveller, because it produces such bright masses of colour 

 among the cacti and boulders of the most desolate " washes," so characteristic 



The lemon-lily (not an American plan;) along u driveway 



of those semi-arid regions with torrential rains, where there is not enough 

 natural verdure to check the rushing off of the waters. And it charms one 

 by its generosity in blooming so late in the summer season, when the hills 

 have exchanged the greenness of their winter costume for the sere brownness 

 of the summer, which is our dormant season, when the roads are thick with 

 dust, and when few other wild flowers are to be seen. 



