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foliage and smaller and earlier-flowered. Altogether a good plant, of fair 

 constitution, but not as vigorous as L. pardalinum. A good loam and 

 moderate moisture in a sheltered position are to its liking. 



6. L. parvum. — A pretty Lily, parallelling the Eastern L. canadcnse^ 

 found only from 5,000 feet to the sub-alpine regions of the Sierra Nevadas 

 of California, in the Lake Tahoe section. In the sub-alpine regions I 

 have seen it in coves among the alders and Pinus Micrmyana, in a soil of 

 granitic sand and leaf mould, on the margins of lakes and on the banks of 

 cold stremns. In the higher altitudes it is a foot or two high, while in 

 the deeper soil along streams, growing among the alpine willows and 

 Aconitum, it may be five to six feet high and many-flowered. The leaves 

 are ovate lanceolate, a light pleasing green, with few perfect whorls, the 

 flowers broad funnel form, with recurving tips a rich orange at centre, 

 with red tops finely dotted. 



It will be noted that it is never a bog Lily, but like L. pardalinum 

 and L. Parryii happiest in a sharp soil where it can reach abundant 

 water while the bulb is in perfectly drained soil. 



At Lvons Vallev it thrives admirably in a loose, well-drained soil 

 under a big alder, always moist, never wet. 



7. L. maritimum. — This species is found in the maritime parts from 

 Mendocino to San Francisco Counties, North-western California, a region 

 of abundant winter rains, brisk winds, and frequent sunnner fogs. Seldom 

 growing over three miles from the ocean, it can be found in a dwarfed 

 form in the dry sandy barrens, growing finely among the brakes on the 

 forest border in a soil of sand rich with mould, and still better in peat bogs. 

 There on some hummock rising a foot or so above the bog level, growing 

 in an almost solid mass of roots of Ledum or Vacciniuvi, it reaches a 

 height of five or six feet, with a dozen or more flowers. 



The rhizomatous bulbs never branch to form clumps. I find a well- 

 drained, cool soil, always moist, suits it well. The Rhododendron bed 

 should suit it exactly, but, as with our other Lilies, it will do best where, 

 with a peaty soil, the drainage is good and the moisture is under rather 

 than about the balb. I do not know of a Pacific coast Lily that I would 

 dare to plant in a mucky, saturated soil. 



8. L. occidentale. — Another rhizomatous rooted Lily, which is native 

 to Humboldt County, North-western California, under exactly the 

 same conditions in which L. maritimum grows, and subject to the same 

 remarks. 



L. occidentale, at its best, is five or six feet high, with dark green 

 foliage, mostly in whorls, and a dozen or so revolute flowers, varying 

 from a medium to a dark glowing crimson, maroon spotted in the throat ; 

 a very brilliant Lily indeed. Tlie bulb is exactly that of L. maritimum, 

 of large, few jointed scales, and never forming clumps. It might be 

 described as a L. maritimum with revolute flowers. 



9. L. Parryii. — A noble Lily, native to the high mountains of 

 Southern California and of Arizona, where, at G.OOO to 10,(XX) feet 

 altitude, it grows under exactly such conditions as L. parvum is found 

 in farther north. At the higher altitude it is a dwarfed plant a foot or 

 two high, and one or two flowered with a small bulb. There it is in 

 granitic sand mixed with leaf mould in moist fiats or along the cold 



