LANTERN OF THE FAIRIES (Cal6chortus albus, Dougl.). 

 Flowers nodding, satiny white, sometimes with a tinge of 

 purple, the petals arching inward and forming a closed bell or 

 globe, hairy within; solitary or few, terminal on the branches. 

 Stems leafy-bracted, 1 to 2 feet high, and branching; radical 

 leaves \ to 2 inches wide. Blooming in late spring or early 

 summer in shady situations, particularly in the Coast Ranges 

 and the Sierra Nevada, from San Diego northward. 



The genus Calochortus numbers about forty species, 

 nearly all confined to the Pacific Coast, though a few occur in 

 the Rocky Mountain region, and even as far east as the Da- 

 kotas and Nebraska. One C. Nuttallii, T. & G., popularly 

 known as Sego Lily, is the State flow r er of Utah. The Lantern 

 of the Fairies belongs to the section of the genus known as 

 Globe- tulips, because of the shape of the flowers, and is one of 

 the daintiest creations imaginable. Paraphrasing a certain 

 old dictum about the strawberry, one might say that doubt- 

 less God could have made a lovelier flower, but never did. 



A charming cousin of C. albus is the yellow Globe-tulip, 

 C. pulchellus, Dougl., somewhat similar in make-up, but with 

 yellow flowers. It is a Central Californian. 



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