ORGANS OF SOME CALIFORNIAN LILIACEAE 407 
= thizome to which thee are witeche a ( fig. 2). 
thizome of old specimens is 3 to 5™ long, comprising 
ucts of twenty to thirty years, and is — ata we : 
ebruary. They may live twenty years, and nelebors there 
und sometimes forty to fifty of them on one plant. In- a 
specimens the roots reach 20% in length, branch in their a8 
ion rarely in the st degree, and bear numerous root 
=e between 2 and 3 ™™ thick, their b basal part, whe oe 
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