124 Calif ornia Fruits and Flowers . 



CALYCANTHUS. 



C occidentalis H. df A. Sweet-scented shrub. An erect 

 shrub, ten feet high, dark green foliage and purplish-red or white 

 flowers. Deciduous. 



camassia. 



The Camass furnished to the Californian aborigine one of his 

 most valued articles of food, and to the white man it contributes 

 a handsome flower. The Camassias are perfectly hardy in' the 

 eastern states. They thrive best in a porous soil. 



C. Cusickii Watson. The flowers of this species, borne in a 

 long raceme, when first expanded are white, changing to pale 

 blue after they have been open a few days. Nearly a yard high 

 at maturity; bulbs large. 'Finest of the genus.' 



C. esculenta LindL The Indian Kamass grows from ten to 

 twenty inches high, has long grass-like leaves, and bears a loose 

 spike ol violet-blue flowers, five inches long. The flowers are an 

 inch or more wide, ten to twenty in a spike, and useful for cut- 

 ting. 



CARPENTERIA. 



C. Californica Torrey. An ornamental shrub related ta 

 the syringa, with fragrant white flowers. 



CASTILLEIA. 



C. affinis FT. & A. Painter's brush. A stout annual one 

 to three feet high, abundant along moist banks of streams in- 

 Southern California, where the yellowish flowers tipped with red, 

 in a leafy spike, and with bright red floral bracts, renders the 

 plant very striking and conspicuous. 



C. foliolosa H. & A. A perennial, one or two feet high, 

 shrubby at base, clothed with a matted white wool. The incon- 

 spicuous yellowish or red tipped flowers outshone by the brilliant 

 red of the floral bracts. Flourishes on dry hillsides. 



CEANOTHUS. 



The Wild Lilacs of the Pacific Coast are in endless variety. 

 They are mostly graceful evergreen shrubs or small trees, bear- 

 iiig dense showy racemes of either blue or white flowers. 



C. hirsutus Nuttall. This is one of the most graceful of our 

 Californian shrubs, with glossy foliage and bearing a profusion of 

 campanula-blue flowers which fade to flax-flower and pearl blue.* 



C. divaricatus Nutt. Pale glaucous leaves, and light blue 

 to white flowers. Very ornamental. 



C. integerrimus Ff. & A. Bears large open terminal ra- 

 cemes of white fragrant flowers. 



C. Orcuttii Parry. Flowers unknown. Native of the high 

 mountains, of San Diego county. 



C. thyrsiflorus Esch. Sometimes a small tree, with bright 

 blue flowers. One of the best known in cultivation. 



