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LILIACEAE 



1. Calochortus albus (Benth.) Dougl. White Fairy Lantern. Fig. 1057. 



Cvclobotltra alba Benth. Trans. Hort. Soc. 1: 413. pi. 14, fig. 3. 

 1835. 



Calochortus alhiis Dougl.; Benth. Maund & Hensl., Bot. 2: pi. 



98. 1838. 

 Cyclobotlira paiiiciilata Lindl. Bot. Reg. 20: under pi. 1662. 1834. 



Stems stout, branching, glaucous. Basal leaves 

 lanceolate, acuminate, 3-5 dm. long. 10-30 mm. wide ; 

 bracts foliaceous, lanceolate acuminate, 5-15 mm. long; 

 flowers subglobose, nodding on slender pedicels ; sepals 

 shorter than the petals, ovate, more or less acuminate, 

 greenish white, often tinged with reddish purple ; petals 

 white, purplish at base, ovate-orbicular, obtuse or acutish, 

 20-30 mm. long, incurved and strongly arched, clothed 

 above the gland with long yellowish hairs ; gland lunate, 

 shallow, with 4 transverse upwardly imbricate scales, 

 fringed with close short yellow or white glandular hairs : 

 anthers oblong, mucronate, 4 mm. long ; capsule 20-40 

 mm. long, 15-25 mm. broad, more or less prominently 

 winged. 



Open woods and shaded slopes of the Upper Sonoran and 

 Transition Zones; Mendocino and Butte Counties, southward 

 through the Coast Ranges and Sierra Nevada to San Diego 

 County. Type locality: California, exact station not known. 



Calochortus albus rubellus Greene. (Erythea 1 : 152. 1893.) 

 Distinguished from the typical form by the rose-tinged perianth- 

 segments. Coast Ranges from the Santa Cruz to the Santa Lucia 

 Mountains, CaliforniaT Originally collected at Pacific Grove. 



2. Calochortus amoenus Greene. 

 Purple Fairy Lantern. Fig. 1058. 



Calochortus amoenus Greene, Pittonia 2: 71. 1890. 

 Calochortus albus amoenus Purdv, in Bailey Cyclop. Hort. 2: 

 632. 1914. 



Stem flexuous, branching, 15^40 cm. high, glaucous. 

 Basal leaf linear-lanceolate, usually surpassing the stem, 

 8-12 mm. wide ; bracts foliaceous, lanceolate, acuminate ; 

 flowers nodding on slender pedicels, rose-purple with 

 maroon glands ; sepals ovate, short-acuminate, two- 

 thirds the length of the petals ; petals broadly ovate, 

 sparsely clothed above the gland to well above the 

 middle with long hairs, long-ciliate on the margins to 

 above the middle ; gland nearly basal, deep maroon, 

 clothed with very short hairs; anthers creamy white, 

 scarcely 3 mm. long ; capsule broadly elliptic, 20 mm. 

 long. 



Western slopes of the Sierra Nevada in the Upper Sonoran 

 and lower edge of the Transition Zones; Fresno and Tulare 

 Counties, California. Type locality: "mountains east of Visalia, 

 California." 



3. Calochortus pulchellus (Benth.) Wood. 

 Mt. Diablo Fairy Lantern. Fig. 1059. 



Cyclobotlira pulchella Benth. Trans. Hort. Soc. 1: 412. 



pl. 14, fig. 1. 1835. 

 Calochortus pulchellus Wood, Proc. Acad. Philad. 1868: 



168. 1868. 



Stem Stout, branching 25-50 cm. high. Basal 

 leaf linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 8-25 mm. 

 wide ; bracts foliaceous, lanceolate, 4-7 cm. long ; 

 flowers 2-3 terminating each branch, nodding, on 

 slender pedicels ; sepals ovate-acuminate, shorter 

 than or about equalling the petals, yellow tinged 

 with brown exteriorly, petals bright yellow, 20-30 

 mm. long, round-ovate, ciliate on the margin with 

 short thick hairs, sparsely clothed above the 

 gland with yellowish hairs; gland deep, appear- 

 ing on the back of the petal as a prominent some- 

 times brownish knob, bordered with elongated 

 stiff light colored hairs ; anthers oblong, 5 tnm. 

 long, mucronate. 



A local species only known on Mount Diablo, Contra 

 Costa County, California. Upper Sonoran Zone. 





