98 White to Green and Brown Flowers 



are considered a great delicacy by the Indians, who call them 

 noonas. 



Calochortus Lyallii, or Pale Mariposa, grows on the 

 grassy slopes of high mountains. It has a slender stem 

 bearing three to five flowers in an umbel, each blossom com- 

 posed of three greenish-purple sepals strongly arched below, 

 the pit thus formed being dark purple inside, and the three 

 white, or pale yellow petals, having a purplish base and being 

 also arched below. 



QUEEN-CUP 



Clintonia uniflora. Lily Family 



Stems: villous-pubescent Leaves: few, lanceolate, acute, attenuate 

 below to a sheathing petiole. Flowers: solitary, peduncle scape-like, 

 shorter than the leaves ; perianth campanulate, of six segments, white ; 

 style equalling the stamens. Fruit: blue berry. 



An exquisite six-parted white flower with a heart of gold, 

 found growing in the shady woods. Its leaves fairly carpet 

 the ground in the localities where it abounds ; they are large 

 and glossy and resemble those of the Lily-of-the-Valley. 

 The stems, which usually bear only a single flower, are very 

 hairy. Thoreau has complained bitterly that this beautiful 

 dweller of the forest should be called after so prosaic an 

 individual as the Governor of New York, and soundly be- 

 rates Gray for the fault; but may not Clinton, the man of 

 affairs, statecraft, and finance, have had an artistic side to 

 his character ? May he not have been a true lover of Nature 

 and an ardent admirer of the splendid beauties that enrich 

 with the perfume of their presence the land of the alpine 

 flower-fields ? 



I feel that a great honour has been conferred upon me in 

 that I have been permitted to name this lovely plant 

 Queen-cup. Hitherto it has been nameless in the English 



