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during the last three winters, and Mowers have been produced in abun- 
dance during the summer. It grows about 18 inches high. The flowers 
are produced in umbels of 4 or 5, the outer segments being pale green on 
the outside, with white scarious margins. The inside is brilliant scarlet- 
red, the inner segments also brilliant scar et except fur a purple spot just 
above the base bearded with a lew tufted hairs; the anthers are dark 
purple." -. ?u 200 
• .Group V— NUTTALLII. 
There are no more exquisitely beautiful flowers than these Each Doz. 
"Sego Lilies" (The Mormon name) of the Great Basin. Most 
of them are plants of the sage brush desert-. The leaves are 
an ashy green, the foliage scant, but the great flowers are 
wonderful in tin-tings. I offer C. Nuttallii white, often sold 
as C. Gunnisoni; large, pure white flowers banded green on 
the back, and marked dark brown inside 08 80 
C. Nuttallii blue. Very Large, flowers white to blue 
marked indigo inside. Supply uncertain 15 1 50 
C. Nuttallii yellow.... 08 80 
C. Nuttallii in pink shades. Supply uncertain 15 1 50 
C. Nuttallii in lilac and purple. Supply uncertain 15 1 50 
CALOCHORTUS LEICHTLINII Hook, J„ 
C. Leichtlinii is a slender Alpine species, of a smoky white 
color, banded green and marked dark brown 6 60 
C. invenustus (C. Palmeri of 1894). A stiff umbellate 
species, a smoky white Supply uncertain 20 2to 
C. Gunnisonii. Very fine. White tinted with delicate 
green, a band of green hairs across petal, and a purple band 
below 6 60 
GROUP VI— CALOCHORTUS MA^ROCARPUS Dousl. 
This very fine species forms a group by itself. It has a 
very large bulb, a stout almost leafless stem, and a very large 
flower of an exquisite pale lavender banded down the back 
with green. Petals long, narrow and pointed oS 80 
Group VII— NiTJDLTS 
These are hardy species growing in the meadows from Oregon to Mon- 
tana, where they endure much cold. The y form a connecting link between 
the Giant Star Tulips and the true Mariposas Their leaves are like those 
of the Star Tulips, long, broad and glossy. Like the Star Tulips too the 
seed pod is handsome, three cornered and winged. The stems are stiffly 
erect. The flowers cup-shaped, not so biilliant as the true Mariposas, but 
