CLINTONIA (Clintonia Andrewsiana, Torr.). Flowers \ 

 inch or so long, red or pink, in a many-flowered globose-umbel 

 topping a stout, leafless stem 1 to 2 feet high, which also usu- 

 ally bears one or more smaller flower-clusters along its length; 

 leaves radical, glossy green, often a foot long. Blooms in 

 the spring and early summer in the redwood forests of the Coast 

 Range from Monterey Bay northward the flowers succeeded 

 in summer by berries of the richest blue, as distinguished in 

 their way as the blossoms. 



Any one familiar with the lovely Clintonia borealis of East- 

 ern woods will recognize at once this, its regal sister of the Far 

 West. There is also another Pacific Coast species, C. uniflora, 

 Kunth., with a short stem bearing one or two dainty white 

 flowers with yellow centres, rising out of two or three shining 

 green leaves. 



Clintonia immortalizes the name of DeWitt Clinton, some 

 time governor of Xew York, and is whimsically associated with 

 Thoreau, who in one of his books says some crabbed things 

 about linking "a politician's" name with such a beautiful 

 flower. As Clinton had a penchant for natural history as well 

 as for politics, doubtless the name is well enough bestowed. 

 Andrews was a California botanist of hah* a century ago. 

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