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Garden and Forest. 



| Number 467. 



many flowering bulbs measure 3 to 4 inches and weigh 1 

 ounce each. 



Lilium Columbianum grows over a wide range of coun- 

 try and in many situations. It is found in Oregon from 

 the coast line and the mouth of the Columbia River, 

 throughout the Coast Range and in the lower portions of 

 the Cascade Mountains. It reaches north-eastern California 

 in Modoc County, and in the state of Washington is found 

 in the southern part in about the same range as in Oregon. 

 I have no accurate information as to how far it extends on 

 Puget Sound, but it follows the Columbia River valley and 

 is found in various portions of north-eastern Oregon, and 

 is close to the Idaho line, to my knowledge. It prefers a 

 sandy, well-drained soil among Ferns in open woods. It 

 is easily grown in cultivation. L. Columbianum may be 

 described as a miniature L. Humboldtii. The flower has 

 reflexed orange-red segments, finely dotted. The stem is 

 slender, and both it and the leaves are light green. The 

 bulb is compact and ovoid, as in L. Humboldtii, but, un- 

 like the latter, the scales are thin. Five hundred average 

 bulbs measure as follows : 100, 4 to 5 J l inches in circum- 

 ference, Y^ ounce each ; 346, 3 to 3^ inches in circumfer- 

 ence, }i ounce ; 54, 2% inches in circumference, £ ounce. 

 L. Columbianum grows from 1*4 to 4 feet in height, and 

 usually flowers the first year. I find sandy alluvium best 

 answers its needs. 



The bulbs of Lilium Bolanderi are almost identical with 

 those of L. Columbianum. I have not flowered L. Bolan- 

 deri nor have I seen it in flower. It is described as being 

 from six inches to three feet high and few-flowered. The 

 leaves are whorled and the general habit seems to be similar 

 to that of L. Columbianum. The flowers are, however, quite 

 different ; the segments are not reflexed, and the flower 

 would seem to be broadly trumpet or bell shaped and nod- 

 ding. A collector who saw it in full flower this year 

 describes it as a very handsome flower of a pleasing red 

 and growing in a high mountainous region in a soil of 

 rocky debris and leaf-mold. Flabitat indefinite, Humboldt 

 and Del Norte counties, in north-western California. 



In this group will fall a fourth species of the far north, 



related to Lilium Columbianum, and as yet unnamed. In 



this species the habit of L. Columbianum in bulb and leaf 



is combined with a peculiar-shaped flower. The lower 



half of the segments forms a closely constricted tube, from 



which the upper portion spreads horizontally in a rotate 



flower finely dotted with maroon. This species is nearly 



as fragrant as L. Parryi. 

 UkiahTCaiif. Carl Purdy. 



New or Little-known Plants. 



Tillandsia Dugesii. 



AVERY beautiful Tillandsia has recently been received 

 at the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University from 

 central Mexico. The plant was collected in the mountains 

 of Santa Rosa, Guanajuato, by Professor Alfredo Duges, 

 and it proves to be the rare Tillandsia Dugesii, described 

 ten years ago by Mr. J. G. Baker.* Though Mr. Faxon's 

 drawing (see page 45 of this issue) does not repro- 

 duce the delicate coloring of the plant it gives a good idea 

 of its habit. The leaves are two feet long or more, 

 densely rosulate, with narrowly ovate bases from four to 

 six inches long and from two to two and a half inches wide, 

 tapering to the elongated rigidly coriaceous ensiform-seta- 

 ceous upper portion, which is convolute nearly to the tip. 

 The leaves throughout are glaucous, with minute lepidate 

 dots. The peduncle is much shorter than the leaves and 

 is closely sheathed by bracts. The lower bracts are as long 

 as the leaves, and like them are lepidate, but their bases 

 are glossy and crimson. The bracts of the panicle are 

 smaller and shorter, and toward the top of the panicle they 

 become merely ovate with acuminate tips. The panicle is 

 a foot or more long, consisting of from fifteen to thirty 

 spikes, these spikes being about three inches long and 



* Journ. Bal., 1887, p. 278. 



scarcely an inch broad. The rachis is crimson and glossy. 

 The flower bracts are one to one and a half inches long, 

 ovate, acute, and strongly keeled on the back ; they are 

 either very sparingly lepidate or quite smooth, and of a 

 peculiar greenish straw-color, shading to rose. The calyx 

 is an inch long, composed of three lanceolate-acute condu- 

 plicate sepals with sharp keels. The corolla is about half 

 an inch longer than the calyx, and apparently deep purple, 

 with ovate-lanceolate obtuse blades. The stamens are a 

 little shorter than the corolla. Mr. Baker described this 

 species from a plant with neither corolla nor fruit, and as 

 yet the fruit is unknown. The very long glaucous foliage 

 and the brilliant peduncle and rachis make it a plant worthy 

 a place in the greenhouse, and, though the specimen at 

 hand is somewhat wilted, Mr. Cameron will attempt to 

 grow it in the Botanic Garden. . 



Gray Herbarium, Cambridge, Mass. Merrill L. 1> erilald. 



Foreign Correspondence. 



London Letter. 



Chrysanthemum Nipponicum. — This is a Japanese plant of 

 considerable promise. It is closely related to the European 

 Ox-eye Daisy, Chrysanthemum leucanthemum ; indeed, it is 

 catalogued by the Japanese nurserymen as Leucanthemum 

 Nipponicum. Although described by Franchet in 1872 

 from specimens collected in Nippon by Savatier, it does 

 not appear to have attracted the attention of European cul- 

 tivators until 1895, when Messrs. Dammann & Co., of 

 Naples, sent it out as a new plant. It is a perennial shrub 

 about two feet high, with numerous annual stems not 

 unlike those of the common Chrysanthemum, oblong 

 toothed leaves, and numerous erect axillary scapes bearing 

 each a head three inches across, with a large yellow tur- 

 binate disk and broad, overlapping, pure white ray florets. 

 A German horticulturist speaks highly of it as a winter- 

 flowering plant for the greenhouse. The cuttings are struck 

 in April, and the plants treated as for the ordinary Chrys- 

 anthemum, housing them in the autumn to flower in 

 December and January. 



Hybrid Cinerarias. — Various crosses between distinct 

 species of Cineraria have been made in England recently, 

 and the results obtained are most gratifying. The most 

 recent cross has been obtained by Mr. Lynch, Curator of 

 the Botanic Gardens, Cambridge, who crossed C. multiflora, 

 a native of the Canary Islands, figured in The Bolanical 

 Magazine, t. 4994, as Doronicum Bourgasi, with forms of 

 the common Cineraria, supposed to be a garden evolution 

 from C. cruenta, also a native of the Canary Islands. The 

 first named has tall stems three to four feet high, with large 

 orbicular leaves, the lower petiolate portion bearing lobe- 

 like leaflets and large auricular clasping bases ; the flowers 

 are of a uniform soft mauve color, about an inch in diam- 

 eter, and borne in very large sheaf-like clusters. The 

 hybrids are mostly like C. multiflora in habit, but shorter, 

 while the flowers are much larger and show variations in 

 color similar to those of the other parent. Mr. Lynch 

 showed his hybrids at the last meeting of the Royal Horti- 

 cultural Society, where they attracted considerable attention. 

 A remarkable circumstance in relation to these hybrids is 

 that Mr. Lynch did not take any steps to prevent self-fer- 

 tilization beyond covering the heads intended to be pol- 

 linated with muslin, in order to exclude insects. He says 

 no further precaution, judging by results, appears to have 

 been necessary. In no case was any true C. multiflora 

 obtained from the seed saved, and therefore it may be 

 assumed that this species is sterile to its own pollen, or, at 

 any rate, pollen from another species was more effective. 

 One of the best of the hybrids, named C. Lynchii, is remark- 

 able for its numerous flowers in large loose heads and 

 uniformly colored a most pleasing shade of bright rose- 

 mauve, not the harsh mauve so prevalent in the garden 

 Cineraria. It grows to a height of about three feet, and is 

 therefore effective in the same way as C. cruenta, the type 



