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53. C. KENNEDYI. 
This “is the most brilliant and striking of all the Calochorti 
known to us,” sa} 7 s a writer in London Garden, who adds—“the 
dazzling scarlet of the flowers suggests the iodide of mercury. It 
stows about IS inches high. The flowers are produced in umbels 
of 4 to 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 scarlet except for a purple spot just 
above the base bearded with a few tufted hairs; the anthers are 
dark purple.” This lovely species I have found hard to grow 
successfully. 
group v—NUTTALLII. 
54. There are no more exquisitely beautiful flowers than these “Sego 
Lilies” (The Mormon name) of the Great Basin. Most of them 
are plants of the sage brush deserts. The leaves are a ash v green 
the foliage scant, but the great flowers are wonderful in tintings. 
I offer C. Nuttallii white, often sold as C. Gunnisomi; large, pure 
white flowers banded green on the back, and marked dark brown 
inside. 
55. C. LEICHTLINII. 
C. Leichtlinii is a slender Alpine species, of a smoky white color, 
banded green and marked dark brown. 
C. invenustus (C. Palmeri of 1894). A stiff umbellate species, a 
smoky white. 
56. C. Gunnisonii. Very fine. White tinted with delicate green, a 
band of green hairs across petal, and a purple band below. 
group vi--C. MACROCARPUS. 
57. This very fine species forms a group by itself. It lias 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. 
a triangular outlinc, often square at the tip, cleai oinnge yellowy 
finely clotted with brown, and lined with long silky hairs. There 
are also variations to light purple and brown. 
Var. ALBA. 
White or white flushed with pink. 
C. PLUMMERAE (C. Weedii purpurascens). 
A queen among Calochorti. Of large size and full outline. In 
color a rich lavender purple, lined with long silky, yellow hairs. 
C. OBISPOJENSIS. 
A unique form of C. Weedii in which the petals are less thanonc- 
half the length of sepals, densely covered with long brown hairs. 
Habit tall, slender and branching, very floriferous. A genuine 
n ovelty. 
GROUP IV- DESERT SPECIES 
