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Popular Studies of California Wild Flower 



The Little Alpine or Small Leopard Lily 



'To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, 

 To throw a perfume on the violet, 

 To smooth the ice, of add another hue 

 Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light 

 To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish 

 Is icasteful and ridiculous excess." 



SHAKESPEARE. 



