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XORTH AMERICAN FAUNA. 



[no. 16. 



the middle of July, and wiis still in tVuit :is late as tlic end <»f September. 

 (Identified by Miss Eastwood.) 



Lilium washingtonianum Kellogg. Wasliington Lily. 



Tills sniK'il) lily, with lai.ge white and \'ei'y frayrant lloweis, is coni- 

 iiioii in the nianzanita in the ui)j)er part of the Transitiou zone, and 

 occurs spariui^ly at lower altitudes. At Sisson it was in fruit the end 

 of September. The tiowers had passed their i)rime by the middle of 

 July, but occasional i»lants were found in blossom as late as the end 

 of the month. 



Tofieldia occidentalis Watson. 



Common near the bottom of the Canadian zone at Wa.iion (amp. 

 (Identitied by Piofessor Greene.) 



Tritelia ixioides (Ait.) (ireene ( Brodlxva). 



('omnn)n at Wagon Camp on the border between the Canadian and 

 Transition zones, where its yellow star tiowers Avere in bloom the latter 

 half of July. (Identified by Professor (Ireene,) 



Vagnera stellata (Linn.) Morong. 



Common at Wagon Camp, particularly in open grassy places along 

 the edges of the fir forest, where it was flowering abundantly when 

 we reached the mountain, tlie middle of July. Plants still holding 



their fruit were ob- 

 served when we left 

 Wagon Cam]>, Se]»tem- 

 ber IT). 



Veratrum californicum 

 Dnrand. White 

 Hellebore, 

 Abuudant at numer- 

 ous localities along 

 the streams and in 

 marshy si)ots in the 

 Canadian and ui)per 

 part of the Transition 

 zones, i'articnlarly 

 comnum at W a g o n 

 Cam]), and a 1 so o n 

 S (| u a w ( 'icclv just 

 abo\e t li c middle 

 meadow. 



Fio. 44.— Wliilo Hcllubdre (Veratrum cali/oniicum). 

 IMiotofjnipbcd by W. K. Fisbcr. 



Smilax californica (Jray. (yalifornia Smilax, 



Occurs in plaeesin tlie lower i)art (»f the Transition zone along Shasta 

 River between i'ldgewood and Sisson, bnt nearer Sisson, Not observed 

 elsewhere. 



