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light yellow, more or less tinged with purple, deep orange at base ; the 

 lanceolate segments spreading, 9 to 12 lines long: anthers oblong, 1^ 

 to 2 lines long, yellow, on very slender filaments : style thickened 

 above, o-lobed at the summit : capsule erect, narrowly oblong and ob- 

 tusely triangular, faintly nerved, 1;^ inches long. — E. grandijlorum, 

 var. multijiormn, Torrey, Pac. R. Rep. iv. 90 ; Baker, Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. xiv. 298. In the Sierra Nevada : near Downieville, Sierra Co. 

 (Dr. J. M. Bigelow), and frequent in Plumas Co., whence fine speci- 

 mens have been received from Mrs. M. E. Pulsifer Ames and from 

 Mrs. R. M. Austin. Abundantly distinct from E. grandijlorum, and a 

 very pretty species, well deserving cultivation. 



