LILY FAMILY. Liliaceae. 



__ , A _ A This is a delicate and charming little 



White Star Tulip . 



Calochdrtus niidus flower, growing best in meadowy places in 

 White the woods of the Sierra Nevada Mountains 



Summer at moderate altitudes, sometimes to a 



California height of over seven thousand feet. The J 



single, ribbonlike leaf is much taller than the flower-stalk, 

 which is only a few inches high and bears several pretty 

 flowers, measuring over an inch across, with pale-green 

 sepals and three pure- white or pale-lilac, fan- shaped petals, 

 with a little notch in the edge, almost without hairs and 

 marked with a lilac crescent at the base; the honey-gland 

 is divided crosswise by a toothed scale and the anthers 

 are light blue. The nodding capsule is pointed at both 

 ends. 



A charming little plant, with lovely 

 White Pussy's j ittle fl owers aDO ut an inch across, with 

 Ears 



Colochdrtus white or pale-lilac sepals and white petals, 



Mawe&nus hairy all over inside, often lilac at the base. 



White, gray the crescent-shaped gland covered with 



violet hairs and the anthers and pistil lilac, j 

 Usually the general effect is of a most 

 delicate shade of gray and the little blossoms do not droop, 

 but look straight up at one from among the grass. This is 

 common in northern California. 



Much like the last in character, from 



Yellow Pussy's three to seven inches tall hh bluish . 

 Ears. Yellow ' 



Star Tulip green, stirnsn leaves and a few quaintly 



Calochortus pretty flowers. They are about an inch 



Benthami across, clear light-yellow, with smooth 



sepals and the petals thickly covered with 

 California yellow hairs and sometimes brown at the 



base. This is common in the Sierra foot- 

 hills. 



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