LILY FAMILY. Liliaceae. 
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This is a delicate and charming little 
White Star Tuli . 2 : 
. flower, growing best in meadowy places in 
Calochértus nidus 
White the woods of the Sierra Nevada Mountains 
Summer at moderate altitudes, sometimes to a 
California 
height of over seven thousand feet. The 
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 —Jittle Aowers, about an inch across, with 
Ears : : : 
Calachartas white or pale-lilac sepals and white petals, 
Maweanus hairy all over inside, often lilac at the base, 
Ain gray the crescent-shaped gland covered with 
pring 
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 
Yellow Pussy’s three to seven inches tall, with bluish- 
Ears. Yellow 
Cal., Oreg. 
Star Tulip green, stiffish leaves and a few quaintly 
Calochértus pretty flowers. They are about an inch 
Bénthami across, clear light-yellow, with smooth 
ros sepals and the petals thickly covered with 
ake: yellow hairs and sometimes brown at the 
base. This is common in the Sierra foot- 
hills. 
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