356 Henderson : New Plants from the Northwest 



learn indirectly that the color of the flower is lilac, and from both 



description and figure that the plant is of a large stature. Points 



that Douglas did not bring out and which Mr. Fernald did, are 



the conspicuous spot on the inner segments, like the spot in a pea- 

 cock's tail-feather, arching round the gland above, the suborbicular 



gland slightly wider than high, and, a thing no one seems to have 



noted, a decided scale below the gland, more or less covered and 



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so disguised by the thick, yellow hairs of the gland. 



Now the plant so common about the National Park, and 

 radiating in all directions for many miles from this center, has so 



many points that differ from the type, that I propose it as a new 



variety, and as this was undoubtedly Watson's C. eury 'carpus, a 



plant he afterwards reduced to C. nitidus^ this may now stand as 



y Calochortus nitidus eurycarpus' v> 



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Differs from the type of C. nitidus Douglas (£7. pavenaceus 

 Fernald), in smaller stature, flowers straw-colored to lilac-purple, 

 in having a large round dark spot above the gland, not lunate as 

 in type, in gland from oval to round, thus higher than wide, not 

 wider than high as in C. nitidus, and in a narrower, almost invisi- 

 ble lacerately fringed scale. 



Common from southern Idaho to the National Park, and col- 

 lected in various localities during the summers of '95 and '99. 

 Types in the National Herbarium at Washington, as well as in the 

 herbaria of Idaho University and Harvard, nos. 3097, 3098 and 



3099- 



Anyone who should first examine a plant of the common 



Smilacina racemosa of the Eastern States, and then one of the 

 5. amplexicaulis type from California, would unhesitatingly pro- 

 nounce them separate species. The long narrow petiolate leaves 

 and short style of the former are strikingly different from the ovate 

 crowded sessile leaves and long style of the latter. And yet to 

 one who has observed and studied these plants for years throughout 

 Oregon, Washington and Idaho, these apparently well marked 

 differences disappear, and intergrading forms of every description 

 can be found. Around Portland, Oregon, can be found forms 

 that differ not at all from the Eastern plant in leaves, flowers and 

 fruit. In the same locality can be found other forms that differ 



