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bulbs, but all fused together on tlio old root-stock. I have seen 

 clumps of the common white and orange Lih'es dug uj) full}^ 2 feet 

 in diameter, these being formed of tlowering bulbs, old clustered 

 masses of scales, and oifsets of all sizes. 



L. WashiinilotiidHiim. — This beautiful Lily is found on the Sierra 

 Nevada, at an altitude of oOOO to GOUO feet, aud during the winter 

 months its bull)s arc frequently covered with J") to 20 feet of snow. 

 Mr. Baker describes its bulbs as being " oblique, white, sub-rhizo- 

 matous, with small, lance-shaped scales," and judging from about 

 1200 imported bulbs of this plant in splendid condition which I saw 

 in November last, that description is accurate. The oblique and 

 elongated habit of growth was wefl shown in those bulbs, two forms 







L. TVashinglonianuDi (America, Sierra Xevada), ratlier more tLan Giie-tliird natural 

 size ; imported bulbs. Tiie smaller figure one-iit'tli natural size. 



of which are represented in the cngraviugs, one of a full-sized old 

 bulb, these being G to 8 inches in length. Even the plump, short, 

 young, imported -bulbs have an oblique appearance, as in the smaller 

 figure, but this habit of growth becomes changed under our garden 

 culture, where the bulbs assume the ordinary ovoid type of growth. 

 L. Washinrifoiiianuni. Purpurf-nm. — The Lily now grown in gardens 

 as Purp lire It m'^ has a rounder, jilumpcr bulb of a yellowish- white colour, 

 shaded with brown, and its habitat is different to that of M'ashing- 

 toniannin proper, since it is found at a lower altitude in the Yosemite 

 valley, "in a climate of perpetual sj)ring." It is by some called 

 Washhuiionianvm, " Eel Eiver variety," since it is tolerably abundant 

 in the moist valley of that stream ; its umbellate style of flowering may- 

 serve to distinguish it from the type. The bulb-growth, although very 



* The bulb of rurpnrruiii is only very slightly obli([ue and elongated, it might be 

 termed ovoid, tlightly ohliiiue. Its scales are few compared with those of If'nshing- 

 tonianum, of a coarser texture, dirtier in colour, thicker, broader, and with a distinct 

 keel on the lowest scale near its insertion ; the whole bulb is much smaller. 



