Tas, 5976. 
CALOCHORTUS etxcans. 
Native of California. 
Nat. Ord, Littacem.—Tribe, Tunirem. 
Genus CaLocuortus, Pursh ; (Endl. Gen. Plant., vol.i. p. 140). 
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Catocuortus elegans ; foliis gramineis 7-10 poll. longis }—3 poll. latis flores 
superantibus, floribus subumbellatis, scapis gracilibus flexuosis, spathis 
brevibus v. elongatis, pedicellis gracilibus, perianthii segmentis exterio- 
_ ribus elliptico-lanceolatis acuminatis viridibus, interioribus unguiculatis 
orbiculatis acutis dorso basin versus gibbo subacuto auctis, intus longe 
filamentoso-barbatis albis, macula basin orbiculata purpurea cum zona 
purpurea circumdata, antheris pallide ceruleis ovato-lanceolatis acutis, 
stigmatibus sessilibus brevibus recurvis. 
CaLocnortus elegans, Pursh, Fl. Bor, Am., vol. i. p. 240; Hook. Fl. Bor. 
Am., vol. ii. p. 183. 
Cyctozornria elegans, Dovgl. in Trans. Hort Soc., vol. vii. t. 9. 
Discovered by Lewis, the early explorer of the Rocky 
Mountains, at the head waters of the Kooskoosky, a feeder 
of the Columbia River, early in the present century, and sub- 
sequently gathered by Douglas in 1826, in the recesses of the 
Rocky Mountains, near the regions of perpetual snow, in the 
same country, by whom it was introduced into England, and 
flowered in the Horticultural Society's Garden in about 1834. 
It has been also gathered in various localities considerably 
south and west of the above, but always on the western water- 
shed of the Rocky Mountains, extending as far south as the 
Sacramento Mountains and the Sierra Nevada. Geyer, who 
also collected it, describes it as growing amongst grass, which 
it scarcely overtops with its solitary erect leaf. The imner 
perianth segments are of a woolly whiteness, but vary much | - = 
i size, and in the colour and form of the purple lilac or blue 
markings towards their base. : 
_ For the re-introduction of this lovely plant we are indebted 
to Max Leichtlin, of Carlsruhe (who also introduced the C. 
JULY Isr, 1872. ; 
