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proportion than the Sierra form, yet still so narrow that there are spaces 

 between them the entire length of the tube. 



These Californian forms are very beautiful Lilies. The small bulbs 

 of var. minor are quite as floriferous as the large ones of the type. 



Fig. 186. — Lilium Washingtoniaxum var. purpubeum. {Gardaiers^ Chronicle.) 



10c. L. i^itrpureum, n. sp. — From the Siskiyou Mountains on the 

 northern border of California northward in Oregon to the Columbia 

 River, in the Cascade range, and throughout the hilly or mountainous 

 wooded region of South-western Oregon to the Pacific, and not only at 

 high altitudes, but as low as 600 feet, and at various places in the open 



