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6. Calochortus purdyi Eastwood, Proc. Cal. Acad. IIL. 1: 137. 1898. 
Tyre LocaLity: Grants Pass, Oregon, Collected by Howell. 
Rance: Western Washington and western Oregon. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Seattle, Piper, June 4, 1883; Meany, June, 1885. 
ZONAL DISTRIBUTION: Humid Transition. 
7. Calochortus lyallii Baker, Journ. Linn. Soc. 14: 305. 1875. 
Calochortus ciliatus Robinson & Seaton, Bot. Gaz. 18: 238. 1893. 
Tyre Locatity: “Columbia brittanica ad apicem montis alt. 5,800 pedes inter fluv. 
Columbia et Yakima.” Collected by Lyall. 
Rance: Eastern Washington, in the Cascade Mountains. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Naches River, Henderson 2485; Mount Stuart, Sandberg & 
Leiberg 575; Wenache Mountains, Whited 1139, 40; Cotton 1266, 1313, 1657; Wenache 
region, Brandegee 1107; without locality, Vasey 82. 
ZONAL DISTRIBUTION: Hudsonian. 
A specimen of F’. eiliatus from the Wenache Mountains, the type locality for each sup- 
posed species, was sent to Mr. J. G. Baker, who reports that it “is not exactly the same”’ 
as the type of C. lyallii, “as it differs in the relative length of anther to filament.” A 
fairly large series of specimens convinces me that two species can not be maintained as 
distinct on such a basis. 
8. Calochortus subalpinus sp. nov. 
Bulbs ovate, 2 to 3 cm. long, the outer coats dark; stems flexuous, erect, 15 to 20 em. 
high, usually exceeded by the solitary leaf, 1 to 3-flowered; leaf linear-lanceolate, acumi- 
nate, 3 to 8 mm. wide, paler beneath; bracts lanceolate, long-acuminate, 2 to 3 em. long; 
sepals lance-ovate, acuminate, somewhat scarious on the margins, 1.5 to 2.5 cm. long, 
6 to 9-nerved, the base strongly arched forming a shallow pit inside, this marked by a 
purple spot; petals cream-colored, purplish at base, obovate or rhombic-orbicular, 2 to 3 
cm. long, slightly erose at margin, sparsely villous over the upper face above the striate 
minutely puberulent gland excepting a narrow portion near the apex; scale narrow, entire, 
extending in a gentle curve nearly across the petal and covered with long, retrorse hairs: 
filaments broadly wing-margined, equalling the long-beaked anthers; capsules nodding, 
narrowly elliptic, rather acutish at each end, 2 to 3 cm. long, beaked by a style 1 to 2 
mm. long. 
A subalpine species closely allied to C. purdyi Eastwood, which differs in having thinner 
sepals lacking the pit at the base, more villous petals without the naked apical area, less 
villous scales which are very strongly arched, a much thinner perfectly smooth gland, and 
merely acuminate, not beaked, anthers. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Washington: Mount St. Helens, Coville 765, July 18, 1898; 
Mount Adams, Henderson 52; Klickitat River, Flett 1124; Skamania County, Suksdorf, 
August 11, 1886; White Salmon, Suksdorf in 1879; Falcon Valley, Suksdorf, July 1, August 
1881. 
Oregon: Mount Hood, A. Wood in 1866; Gorman, September 23, 1896; Dr. C. H. Mer- 
ram, altitude 6,000 to 7,000 feet in 1896; Howell in i881 (type, in U. S. National Her- 
barium); Three Sisters, Gorman 121, July 21, 1903, altitude 6,000 feet. 
This species was included in C. elegans nanus Wood by its author, but the type of that 
came from near Yreka, California, and is quite different from this subalpine or alpine 
northern species. In Howell’s Flora of Northwest America this species is well described, 
but under the name C’. /yallii Baker, which belongs to a very different species. The species 
has also been confused with C. apiculatus Baker. 
MELANTHACEAE. Buncnu-rirower Famity. 
Anthers 1-celled; leaves neither rigid nor equitant. 
Leaves broad; petioles sheathing; flowers ina large panicle... VeraTRuM (p- 196). 
aves narrow, grass-like. 
