LILY FAMILY. Liliaceae. 

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Washington Lily In the Sierras, at an altitude of from 
Shasta Lily three to over seven thousand feet, and as 
Lilium Washing- far north as the Columbia River, we may 
tonidnum be fortunate enough to find this glorious 
tani Lily, growing in the forest in moderate 
Cal.,. Oreg. shade and protected by the chaparral. Itis 
not rare but nowhere very abundant. I 
shall never forget finding a group of three or four, growing 
near a huge fallen tree, in the woods at Wawona near Yo- 
semite, where it is very fine. Their raiment is even more 
“white and glistering’’ than the cultivated Easter Lilies. 
The smooth, stout, purplish stem is from two to five feet 
high, adorned all the way up with successive whorls of 
handsome dark-green leaves, three or four inches long, thin 
in texture, with rippling margins, and shining as if they 
had been varnished. There are from two to twenty blos- 
soms of shining white, each one from three to four inches 
long and as much across. The petals are cleft to the base, 
spreading wide apart when the flower is fully open, some- 
times finely dotted with purple, and becoming purplish in 
fading. The anthers are yellow and the pistil green, and the 
bulb is large, with thin scales. The scent is delicious, 
having a whiff of spicy carnation added to the usual lily 
fragrance. This is never found in the Coast Range and is 
the only pure white American Lily. Shasta Lily is a variety 
with a small bulb. LZ. Pdrryi, the Lemon Lily, of southern 
California and Arizona, is similar in the form of its flowers, 
which are large and clear yellow, dotted lightly with deeper 
yellow. It grows in shady, moist spots in cool canyons 
and is very beautiful. 
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