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during the last three winters, and flowers 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 for a purple spot just 
above the base bearded with a few tufted hairs; the anthers are dark 
P Ur P le '" 1 1) 00 
Group V— NUTTALLII. 
There are no more exquisitely beautiful flowers than these 100 1000 
"Sego Lilies" (The Mormon name) of the Great Basin Most 
of th em are plants of the sage brush desert^. The leaves are 
an ashy l reen, the foliage scant, but the great flowers are 
wonderful in timings. I offer C. Nuttallii white, often sold 
as C. Gunnisoni; large, pure white flowers banded green on 
the back, and marked dark brown inside 4 50 30 00 
C. Nutrallii blue. Very Large, flowers white to blue 
marked indigo inside. Supply uncertain 6 00 
C. Nuttallii yellow 4 so 
C. Nuttallii in pink shades. Supply uncertain 6 00 
C. Nuttallii in lilac and purple. Supply uncertain 6 00 
CALOCHORTUS LBICHTLINII Hook, J. 
C. Leichtlinii is a slender Alpine speci<~s, of a smoky white 
color, banded gree" and marked dark brown 3 00 20 00 
C. invenustus (C. Palmeri of 1894). A stiff umbellate 
species, a smoky white Supply unceriain 10 00 
C. Gunnisonii. Very fine. White tinted with delicate 
green, a band of green hairs across petal, and a purple band 
bel OH' ., 3 00 20 OO 
GROUP VI— CALOCHORTUS MA' ROCARPUS Dousl. 
This verv 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 4 50 30 00 
Group VI I— NITIDIS 
These are hardy species growing in the meadows from Oregon to Mon- 
tana, where they endure much cold. They 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 
