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valleys and half-wooded uplands. A form (heretofore considered L. 

 Washingtonianum) is found so strongly marked as to justify a new 

 species, in my opinion. (Fig. 186.) 



The bulb is large, when fully developed as large as the variety which 

 comes from the Sierra Nevada, but solider and heavier. 



The bulb scales are frequently two or three jointed, with easily 

 separable joints, the stem stout and very leafy, the leaves broadly obovate, 

 3 or 4 inches long by wide, mostly in whorls of 10 to 14, the flowers 

 often in a terminal umbel, but if many racemose. 



In outline the flowers are almost like L. canclidum, having a very 

 broad funnel-form tube one-half of their length, from which they broadly 

 spread and finally recurve. The inner segments are one to three times 

 as long as they are wide. 



In this form the flowers open white, dotted with purple. In some 

 localities they remain white, while in others they are slightly tinged 

 with pink on opening, and while still fresh become purple, a form often 

 confused with the very distinct L. rubescens. 



In its native home the Californian L. Washincjtonianum is found in 

 practically only one soil and situation, but this Oregon form occurs in a 

 great variety. At one point in the great Willamette Valley I knew of it 

 in the grain fields, where it grew at a depth to escape the plough, and 

 flowered magnificently. But to save their grain from being trampled by 

 flower lovers the farmers dug them up. 



Practically all of the bulbs which have found their way into gardens 

 for some years have been of this species, so that it is now well known in 

 cultivation. 



While the bulb of the Californian variety is so liable to decay, that of 

 the Oregon one is the easiest possible to handle, and there is as great a 

 difference in the garden. 



At my Lyons Valley garden it simply luxuriates in all but the wettest 

 ground. 



10<:/. In the Coast ranges of North-western California, in Humboldt 

 and Trinity Counties, another very fine variation of the species occurs. 

 It has an immense bulb, -is tall and very leafy, with broad leaves, and the 

 flowers open white and soon turn pink. It is of the general flower 

 type of the Sierra L. WashiiKjtonianitm. 



In cultivation L. Washimjtonianiiin must be planted deep in 

 thoroughly drained soil. I should say that the ideal soil would be three- 

 quarters sandy loam, one-quarter mould or peat, with a liberal admixture 

 of grit or charcoal to make it porous ; a sheltered position and some hardy 

 perennial or low shrub to shelter the ground would complete its 

 happiness. 



11. L. Tuhescens is found in the Coast range from San Francisco Bay 

 north to Humboldt County, from the immediate coast back for fifty miles. 

 It grows in firm clay, in gritty soil, in gravel mixed with leaf mould, and 

 among rocks. It is found on ridges in the open redwood forest growing 

 through a low underbrush of Vacciniums and Gaultheria, on cool northerly 

 slopes among the tan oaks {Quercus densiflora), on the inner edge of the 

 Sequoia forest, among evergreen Oaks, on cool rocky points, and growing 

 on cool slopes in hazel thickets east of Ukiah ; but it reaches its best 



