CLUSTERLILY 
Hookera pauciflora (Torrey) Tidestrom 
The Desert Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington 
is located neat Tucson, Arizona, high up on a small desert mountain 
notable for its profusion of cactuses and other strange plants which 
ate able to exist with a minimum of water. Among the sun-baked 
tocks grow many clusterlilies, which ate always attractive in their 
dainty beauty. Their bulbs, sunk deep in soil, enable the plant to live 
from one blooming season to another. 
The genus of the Lily Family to which clusterlily belongs contains 
many species restricted to Western North America, and occurring 
mainly in California, but the present species grows in Arizona and 
New Mexico. The technical name of this genus was given in honor 
of Sit William Jackson Hooker, one of the most eminent of English 
botanists. 
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