LILIES OF THE WESTERN UNITED STATES & BKiriSH COLUMPJA. 361 



estate on the high brushy mountains near Ukiah. There, among Sequoia, 

 and live Oaks kept in a dwarfed form by periodical brush fires, it finds 

 shelter and lifts its glorious raceme above them into the warm June sun- 

 ight, the most deliciously fragrant of all Lilies. Here stam-j 6 to 8 feet 

 high, with twenty-five to thirty-five flowers, are common. The soil is 

 oftener a compact yellow clay overlaid by loose grit or mould. 



L. rubcscens has a bulb smaller, more compact, and more ovate than 

 L. Washing tonianitm of the Sierra Nevada. The leaves are narrowly 

 lanceolate-, nearly all in dense distant whorls. The stem is slender, the 

 flowers in a raceme if many, in an umbel if few, have a narrow tube 

 two-thirds their length, with recurving tips. The segments of the 

 perianth overlap to form the tube. The peduncles are oblique to the 

 stem, as are the buds, and the flower is semi-erect. This is in strong 

 contrast to L. Washing tonimmm or L. jmrpiireum, in which the 

 peduncles are oblique to the stem, but tho buds horizontal. 



L. rubescens is a much smaller Lily than L. Washing tonian/im, and 

 of altogether different flowers. 



Very many growers have confused the two simply because L. pur- 

 puremn was long sold as L. rubescens, and they have never seen the true 

 L. rubescens. There is an excellent garden plate of L. Washing tonianum 

 of the typical California Sierra form, and L. rubescens, which perfectly 

 shows the two. 



I note that in Baker's Tulipafe L. W ashing tonianum var. imrpureum 

 was referred to California and the Yosemite Valley. I have never seen 

 any purple-flowered L. Washing tonianum in California except the 

 Humboldt County one, and very likely the locality given is not a correct 

 one. 



I have found collected bulbs, no matter when or how carefully dug 

 and handled, peculiarly subject to soft rot. On the other hand my garden- 

 grown bulbs give me no trouble whatever. Why the difference I do not 

 know, unless the presence of some germ in its native soil can account 

 for it. 



It is decidedly more amenable to cultivation than the Californian 

 L. Washing tonianuju. 



I detailed the conditions under which it naturally grows fully on 

 purpose to indicate garden treatment. First of all and always, perfect 

 drainage, sharp drainage ; next, any good deep soil not too rich, a dry or 

 sandy loam preferable, and made porous in some way ; last, the ground 

 shelter of some undergrowth. These conditions or their equivalent will 

 bring success. 



12. L. Ketloggii. — This new Lily, a description and figure of which will 

 be found in " The Garden " of May 11, 1901, is native to a restricted belt in 

 Humboldt County, North-western California. It has the bulb of a small 

 L. rubescens and darker similar foliage, the three to twenty flowers of 

 a pinkish pm'ple colour, the segments a couple of inches long, dotted 

 with purple and banded yellow. The peduncles are curved and the buds 

 pendent, the segments closely revolute. It is a distinct, graceful, and 

 beautiful Lily, with a sweet characteristic fragrance. In height it varies 

 from 2 to 4 feet as I grow it. 



My experience in its culture extends through two years. The fii*st 



