West American Scientist 
Vol. X. No. 82. November, 1897. 
Descriptive List of New and Novel 
Californian Bulbs. 
CARI, PURDY. 
BRopDI4:A BRIDGESII. This isa rare 
species Saaicitae ng B, laxa, but with a 
‘more bell-shaped tube, aud larger flow- 
ers. Very handsom 
B. IXIOIDES VAR. ERECTA. orm 
with plants about 3-6 inches. ee and 
light yellow rotate flowers. B. rate & of 
Greene, is the same, with ‘ice pa 
B. HENDERSONTI. his rare ee. 
from southwestern Oregon, has pale yel- 
low tale pasar st ng B. laxa. 
B. PurRD Descrilied and figured 
in Proce. ehriesis Acad.’ Sci. ser. IT. vt. 
The ae ed flat on the Rigen 
_ habit is |B. grandifior 
large waxy ernst of a reddish mee: 
_ color spread rotately from a short con- 
“stricted tube. It is one ef the handsom- 
the genus. here is also a pure 
white form. 
B. DoUGLASII. This i is the connect- 
ing link between the type of B. Howellii 
and B. laxa. The large flowers have the 
porcellain caste of B. Howellii, but are 
blu At its best it grows larger than 
the largest - laxa plants, and fo cue a 
grand plan 
ay Domavo STRAIN OF Cauocnort 
I cannot say too much in favor of t 
oe HE strain of Mariposa 
li 
hi 
andi in its exquisite tints no other 
¢chortus rivals it. Some of the reds ex- 
cel C, Kennedyi, “= from pure white 
to claret the ere is an en. Less variation 
“and red blotches, and a few GRE 
Pu ake with he ona white pa” 
few hund ‘the mixed aul will, 
wiles the purchaser such a variety as he 
ever dreamed possible 
C, cLAvatus. In this species, for th 
first time offered, I can give oe n 
entirely new in Calochorti. 
are from a foot to two feet long, ae 
flat on the ground. 
eet 2-4 feet high. The stem and 
are a bluish green. The imm 
den yellow cups, 3-6 inches aer 
lined with yellow hairs and each 
tipped with a transparent club 
point. In the light it is as if the 
f the flower were a mass of ti 
> pitelak hse ot This isa 
ers borne in an umbel. 
est and brightes 
os: 
Stink occueriane in several f 
revolutum var. Bolanderi, bett 
as E, Smithii, is one of them 
is a one- or few-flowered sp 
creamy yellow flowers whic 
curve tot 
tiful thing. 
tum, white for. 
ar. capes and figur 
na nthe Botanical Mag. zi 
ching in Kr 
a pure white ith a sight 
and orange ce See 
3 eee of oS 
