There are no L. humboldtii any more in the Brownsville cemetery. They started mowing the cemetery with a string trimmer a few years ago. The last time I was there, about a year ago, I didn't see a single plant. Four or five years ago there were still some plants that were protected because they were growing up a wire fence. The fence is now gone and so are the plants. When I first saw the L. humbodtii there in about 1984 there were hundreds of plants. Diana Telos ----- Original Message ----- From: "Diane Whitehead" <voltaire@islandnet.com> To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 4:54 PM Subject: Re: [pbs] California -Lilium inquiry > > Humboldtii and Washingtonianum to be found in the I-80 and/or Hwy > >20 areas of the Sierra foothills. > > > Whenever I read of wildflower areas, I put a sticky note in the > correct place in my DeLorme topographical map book. > > I have lots of notes, derived from an article by Derek Fox in the > 1991 North American Lily Society yearbook, about the area where you > live, from Placerville over to Lake Tahoe. I assume you don't need > any information about that area. > > I have only one note on the two map pages of land to the north and > east of Yuba City. - Brownsville churchyard - famous clump of L. > humboldtii, but cleaned up after flowering, so no seed sets. > > -- > Diane Whitehead Victoria, British Columbia, Canada > maritime zone 8 > cool mediterranean climate (dry summer, rainy winter - 68 cm annually) > sandy soil > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php