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THE AMERICAN BOTANIST. 
that clambers about the porches ''back East", close set over 
acres like a carpet and delighting the eye like some far flung 
fabric of fairyland. Irises, yellow violets (blue ones are 
rarae aves in California), phloxes and fire pinks, lilies and 
one-flowered clintonias, and tiny wild roses that bloom on 
lilliputian bushes that may be tucked in one's waistcoat 
pocket, greet us on every hand. By noisy mountain brooks 
we find Syringa bushes covered in July with masses of 
golden centered white blossoms; while hard by is calycan- 
thus in lurid bloom — Western cousin of the beloved "sweet 
shrub" of old-fashioned gardens. Here, too, are great 
glorified azaleas, pure white save for a touch or two of yel- 
low, and mats of a creeping, purple flowered ceanothus, 
easily recognized as cousin to the New Jersey tea of Revo- 
lutionary fame. The Klamath Indians call it by a name 
which means "arrowhead plant", because its small, tough 
leaves are shaped like inverted arrowheads. There is a 
quaint Klamath legend to the effect that in the ancient 
days when birds and animals lived as men, the hawks tipped 
their arrows with the leaves of this little plant. (See Co- 
ville's interesting and valuable "Notes on the Plants used 
by the Klamath Indians of Oregon.") 
A search in the shadier parts of the woods, particularly 
near streams, will be rewarded by the discovery of several 
interesting orchids, among them a lovely and fragrant 
lady slipper (Cypripedium montanum). It is a treacher- 
ous beauty, however, for it is known to cause a trouble- 
some eruption to some sensitive skins that have touched it. 
Menzies' rattlesnake plantain is a frequent orchid here, its 
leathery, white veined leaves spreading in cool undulations 
upon the dry ground. For elfin siestas on hot mid-summer 
noons, I know of no more alluring couches. Another or- 
chid found in some abundance is the parasitic Cephalanthera 
Oregana, locally known as "ghost flower", because of its 
