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Berkeley - Erythronium purpurascens Wats. Purdy says: "Well-marked! While the other species are "large-flowered" this means nothing exact since the variation is so great. It is a matter of soil. Nevertheless purpurascens is "small-flowered" in contrast, its maximum being so different from the average and maximum of the other species. Go 100 yds. above Cisco station and you will find it in the brush." - E. [erythroniium] californicum. Includes the North Coast Range giganteum. Most important thing to observe is color and mottling of the leaves." - Calochortus luteus var. concolor Baker. Purdy thinks this a good species. Beautiful
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Jan. 13, 19?? clear yellow, very handsome, much finer than luteus. Scattered about here and there but nowhere common" - Jan. 13, 1905. Carl Purdy Vegetative Reproduction - Eriogonum nudum. Rootstocks _ decay, separating plants. Vancouveria parviflora. Slender rootstock, decays, leaves plants independent. Whipplea modesta, surface runners. Micromeria chamissonis, " " Artemisia heterophylla, running rootstocks. Aster radulinus, " " - [Alta] Edwards, Bot. 104. _ slender, with several remote bud shoots.
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