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PLANT MATERIAL INTRODUCED 



.92148 to 92166— Continued. 



92148. Anemone eanunculoides L. Ra- 

 nunculaceae. Yellow wood anemone. 



A low herbaceous perennial with stems 

 3 to 8 inches high from a somewhat tu- 

 berous rootstock. The leaves are 3- 

 parted to 5-parted, with the lobes deeply 

 cut and serrated, and the solitary golden- 

 yellow flowers are single or semidouble. 

 It is native to Europe and Siberia and 

 flowers in March and April. 



92149. ASPARAGUS ACUTIFOLIUS L. Con- 



vallariaceae. 



A hardy evergreen species which makes 

 a beautiful hedge plant, somewhat re- 

 sembling the juniper. As the plants 

 grow older there is a tendency to pro- 

 duce vinelike shoots. The tuberlike stor- 

 age roots and drought-resistant foliage 

 make it valuable for regions of scanty 

 rainfall. The shoots are edible, although 

 much smaller than those of ordinary as- 

 paragus. The flavor, however, is said by 

 some to be superior to the common 

 species. 



For previous introduction see 49458. 



92150. Bloomeria aurea Kellogg. Lilia- 

 ceae. Goldenstar. 



A small summer-flowering bulbous per- 

 ennial, closely resembling the alliums. 

 The grasslike leaves are radical, and the 

 stiff slender scape, 6 to 18 inches high, 

 ybears an umbel of wheel-shaped golden- 

 yellow flowers nearly 1 inch across. It 

 is native to California. 



92151. Brodiaea Candida Baker. Lilia- 

 ceae. 



A spring-flowering bulbous perennial, 

 'With linear leaves and scapes 1 to 2 feet 

 high bearing umbels of tubular white or 

 bluish flowers with a green midrib. It is 

 native to California and is probably not 

 hardy north of Virginia. 



:92152. Brodiaea lactea (Lindl.) S. Wats. 

 Liliaceae. 



A bulbous perennial, native to Califor- 

 nia, with stems 1 to 2 feet high, linear 

 leaves, and an umbel of wheel-shaped 

 •white flowers having a green midvein. 



#2153 to 92157. Calochortus spp. Lilia- 

 .ceae. 



:92153. Calochortus albus Dougl. 



White globe-tulip. 



A bulbous perennial, native to Cali- 

 fornia, with a single basal leaf and a 

 slender tiexuous leafy branched stem 

 bearing several globular pendent white 

 -flowers 1 inch across. 



.92154. Calochortus catalinae S. Wats. 

 Catalina mariposa. 



A bulbous perennial with branching 

 •stems 1 to 2 feet high and large hand- 

 some white to deep-lilac flowers having 

 ,a round black spot at tbe base of each 

 petal. It is native to Santa Catalina 

 Island. 



-92155. Calochortus clavatus S. Wats. 

 Golden mariposa. 



A bulbous perennial, native to Cali- 

 fornia, with stout stems and golden- 

 yellow bowl-shaped flowers 5 to 6 

 inches across. 



92148 to 92166— Continued. 



92156. Calochortus kennedyi Porter. 



A low bulbous perennial 1 to 4 inches 

 high, with linear tufted leaves and 2- 

 flowered to 4-flowered umbels of red- 

 orange to vermilion flowers with a 

 purple spot at the base of each segment. 

 It is native to the deserts of southern 

 California. 



92157. Calochortus pdummerae 

 Greene. Santa mariposa. 



A bulbous perennial with a broad 

 glossy radical leaf, branching stems 1 

 to 2 feet high, and very showy lilac to 

 purple flowers of triangular square- 

 topped petals having the margins lined 

 with long silky hairs. It is native to 

 southern California. 



92158. Chlorogalum pomeridianu m 

 Kunth. Liliaceae. Amole. 



A perennial with a bulb 4 inches long 

 and 2 inches thick, sending up a stem 

 5 feet high. Tbe basal leaves are linear 

 and wavy margined, and the numerous 

 starlike white flowers with purple veins 

 are in a terminal panicle and open in 

 the afternoon. It is native to California, 

 and the bulbs are used for soap making. 



92159. Clattonia rosea Rydb. Portu- 

 lacaceae. Springbeauty. 



A delicate bulbous perennial, native to 

 Colorado, with spatulate basal leaves, 

 linear-lanceolate stem leaves, and 5 to 

 10 pink flowers on a short stem. 



92160. Clattonia virginica L. Portu- 

 lacaceae. Virginia springbeauty. 



A smooth succulent bulbous perennial 

 4 to 8 inches high, with linear-lanceolate 

 leaves 2 to 6 inches long and a loose 

 raceme of pink-tinged white flowers. It 

 is native to the eastern United States. 



92161. DlCENTRA CHRYSANTHA W a 1 p . 



Papaveraceae. Golden eardrops. 



The yellow-flowered bleedingheart, 

 found at an altitude of 2,500 feet in the 

 Coast Range Mountains of California. 

 It is a glaucous perennial with stiff 

 course leafy stems 2 to 3 feet high and 

 bipinnate leaves 1 foot or more in length. 

 The yellow flowers, about half an inch" 

 long, are borne in large racemose pan- 

 icles. 



92162. Erythronium californicum 

 Purdy. Liliaceae. California troutlily. 



A bulbous perennial with two richly 

 mottled lanceolate leaves and a scape 

 bearing up to 16 nodding lilylike creamy 

 to light-yellow flowers with revolute pet- 

 als marked maroon at the base. It is 

 native to California. 



92163. Erythronium hendersoni S. 

 Wats. Liliaceae. Henderson troutlily. 



A bulbous perennial with lanceolate to 

 oblong leaves mottled in dark brown 

 and one to three pale-purple flowers hav- 

 ing recurved petals and a dark, almost 

 black, center. It is native to southern 

 Oregon. 



92164. Lewisia finchii Hort. Portula- 

 caceae. 



A name for which a place of publica- 

 tion has not been found. It is said to 

 be a rare and beautiful rock plant with 

 rosettes of flesby leaves and bandsome 

 soft-pink flowers. 



