LILY FAMILY. Liliaceae. 



This is a delicate and charming little 

 White Star Tulip _ 



Calochdrtus nudus nower, growing best in meadowy places in 

 White the woods of the Sierra Nevada Mountains 



Summer at moderate altitudes, sometimes to a 



California hdght of Qver geyen thousand f eet> Th 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 I 

 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 j 

 little flowers, about an inch across, with j 

 white or pale-lilac sepals and white petals, 

 hairy all over inside, often lilac at the base f 

 the crescent-shaped gland covered with 

 violet hairs and the anthers and pistil lilac. : 

 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 

 three to seven inches tall, with bluish- 

 green, stifnsh leaves and a few quaintly 

 pretty flowers. They are about an inch 

 across, clear light-yellow, with smooth 

 sepals and the petals thickly covered with 

 yellow hairs and sometimes brown at the 

 base. This is common in the Sierra foot- 



White Pussy's 



Ears 



Calochortus 



Ma.wed.nus 



White, gray 



Spring 



Cal., Oreg. 



Yellow Pussy's 

 Ears. Yellow 

 Star Tulip 

 Calochdrtus 

 Benlhami 

 Yellow 

 Spring 

 California 



hills. 



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