LILY FAMILY. Liliaceae. 
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bed, is a sight never to be forgotten. Pushing their bright 
leaves right through the snow they gayly swing their golden 
censers in the face of winter and seem the very incarna- 
tion of spring. There are several similar kinds. In the 
Utah canyons these flowers in early spring are a wonder- 
ful sight, covering the wooded slopes with sheets of gold, 
and they seem to me to be the largest and handsomest of 
their clan, growing at an altitude of six thousand to eleven 
thousand five hundred feet, and blooming from March 
to July according to height. Easter Bells is a Utah name. 
This is the only one of its kind, a won- 
Desert Lil 
Seas Hf derfully beautiful desert plant, much like 
undulata an Easter Lily. The stout, pale, bluish 
White stem, from six inches to two feet tall, has 
2g a delicate “‘bloom’”’ and springs from a 
graceful cluster of narrow leaves, which 
are a foot and a half long, spreading widely, but not lying 
quite flat on the ground. They are pale bluish-green, 
with a narrow, crinkled, white border and folded length- 
wise. The buds are bluish and the lovely flowers are 
about three inches long and pure-white, delicately striped 
with pale-green and blue on the outside, with yellow an- 
thers and a white stigma, and with a papery bract at the 
base of each pedicel. The flowers are slightly fragrant 
and become papery and curiously transparent as they 
wither. In dry seasons these plants do not bloom at all, 
but the slightest moisture will cause them to send up a 
stout stem and crown it with exquisite blossoms, which 
look extraordinarily out of place on the arid desert sand 
around Yuma and Ft. Mohave. The bulb is eaten by 
the Indians. 
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