TWINING WILD HYACINTH (Brodicea voluUlis, Baker). 

 Flowers pink or rose color without, paler within, in a compact, 

 many-flowered umbel, topping a contorted, leafless, vine-like 

 stem. Leaves radical, grass-like, and usually prostrate, 1 to 2 

 feet long. 



The Twining Wild Hyacinth is not uncommon in the Sierra 

 Nevada foothill regions, from the neighborhood of Yosemite 

 to Northern California, and is also found in the foothills of the 

 Coast Ranges, blooming in summer. The remarkable feature 

 of this plant is its odd vine-like stem, which clambers over 

 bushes and around the stems of other plants, to the length some- 

 times of 10 to 12 feet. Miss Parsons in her excellent book 

 "The Wild Flowers of California," has recorded that even if 

 the stem should be broken off at the ground before blossoming, 

 the process of flowering goes on quite undisturbed; and that 

 people often bring the severed stems indoors, where they can 

 watch the interesting phenomenon of growth, allowing them to 

 climb over the curtains. 



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