38 Tur West. AMERICAN SCIENTIST. 
CATIPORNIA Yr OW) BEIVICS: 
It seems strange that one of the loveliest of California an- 
nuals should have escaped attention among lovers of flowers for 
so long. And yet the Yellow Bells of California, as it is called, 
is hardly yet introduced. The plant forms a broad bush, from a 
span to occasionally two feet high. Hach of its numerous 
branches is fairly loaded with broadly bell-shaped pendulous 
flowers, a half inch long, and of a delicate cream color. The 
flowers are almost everlasting, the persistent corolla drying and 
retaining its shape until the seed has ripened. ‘‘’The general 
effect of a branch is suggestive of a long spike of the lily of the 
valley,’ says one writer regarding it. 
The pinnatifid foliage has caused the plant occasionally to be 
taken for a fern, before it blossoms. It occurs in Utah, and from — 
Lake County to San Diego, and southward in Lower California. 
It belongs to the same family as the phacelia, nemophila and 
whitlavia of our gardens—all natives of the Golden State. 
C. R. ORCUTT. 






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