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SEGO-LILY 



Calochor'tus nuttal'lii 



Flowers showy, white tinged with 

 lilac, blue or purple, tulip-shaped, 

 solitary or in end cluster (umbel) of 

 2 to 5 



Stamens 6, with pollen sacs (anthers) 

 blunt, oblong and longer than stalks 

 (filaments) 



Petals 3, blunt-tipped, reverse-egg- 

 shaped, wedge-shaped below, with cres- 

 cent-shaped purple spot above the 

 gland; gland deeply impressed, 

 rounded, yellow, not broader than 

 long, often surrounded by sparse, 

 yellowish hairs 



Seed pods (capsules) up to 2 in. 

 long, not winged, 3-angled, tapering 

 from middle to tip, 3-celled, splitting 

 down along edges of each cell 



Outer flower parts (sepals) 3, egg- 

 lance-shaped, usually sharp-pointed, 

 about % as long as petals, papery-mar- 

 gined, often with 1 or 2 purple spots 

 near base 



Leaves onionlike, linear, fleshy, at 

 first covered with a bluish, waxy bloom; 

 basal leaves usually 1 (sometimes 2 or 

 3) ; stem leaves I or 2, alternate, deeply 

 grooved, usually curving outwards 



Stem slender, erect, usually up to 

 about 17 in. high, simple, swollen and 

 bulblike near base 



"Bulb" (conn) solid, membranous- 

 coated, underground, perennial 



Roots fibrous 



I ith. A. Hoen & Co. 



