PUSSY-EARS 



Calochortus elegans Lindley 



We were following the old stage road, now replaced by a new 

 motor road, in the Columbia River Valley, twenty miles south of Canal 

 Flats, at an altitude of 2,500 feet The marvelous larches and pines of 

 the primeval forest towered above us, and over the grassy forest floor 

 were scattered many flowers with which we were familiar. Suddenly 

 we saw the grass dotted with a white lily, which was unknown to 

 us, and upon examination we quickly comprehended the reason for its 

 common name of "pussy-ears," which our companion gave it So 

 graceful was it that we could only wonder that a flower so beautiful 

 had not been enticed long ago to grow in our cultivated gardens. 



Pussy-ears ranges from Utah and California to British Columbia 

 and Montana. 



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