LILY FAMILY 



4. Calochortus amabilis Purdy. 

 Golden Fairy Lantern. Fig. 1060. 



Calochortus fuUhellus maculosiis S. Wats.; Purdy, Zoe 1: 



245. 1890. 

 Calochortus amabilis Purdy, Proc. Calif. Acad. III. 2: 



119. 1901. 

 Calochortus pulchclltis amabilis Tepson, Fl. West. Middle 



Calif. 113. 1901. 



Stem riexuous, hranching. 2-5 dm. hig'n. 

 glaucous. Sepals 20-30 mm. long, ovate, abruptly 

 short-acuminate, yellow tinged with green and 

 brown ; petals clear golden yellow or the gland 

 marked exteriorly b)- a brown spot, scarcely sur- 

 passing the .'^epals, ciliate on the margin with 

 short thickish hairs, naked above the gland but 

 often verj' sparsely hairy on either side of the 

 gland : gland lunate, deeply sunken, appearing as 

 a knob exteriorly, covered by a dense fringe of 

 appressed light yellowish hairs growing from the 

 upper margin, and crossing each other over the 

 pit : antliers oblong, 4 mm long. 



Open woods and grassy slopes of the Upper Sonoran 

 Zone; California Coast Ranges, Humboldt and Trinity 

 Counties south to Sonoma and Solano Counties. Possibly 

 only a -variety of the preceding. Type locality: not given. 



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5. Calochortus monophyllus ( Lindl. ) Lem. 

 Yellow Star Tulip or Cat's Ear. Fig. 1061. 



Cvclobothra monophyllus Lindl. Journ. Hort. Soc. 5: 81. 



1849. 

 Calochortus monophyllus Lem. Fl. Serres 5: 430. b. 



1849. 

 Calochortus benthami Baker, Tourn. Linn. Soc. 14: 304. 



1875. 



Stems flexous, simple or sparingly branched, 

 10-25 cm. high. Flowers 1-6, weakly erect; 

 sepals ovate. 16-20 mm. long, abruptly acumi- 

 nate, mucronafe, greenish yellow ; petals yellow, 

 about equalling the sepals, oval to obovate, 

 rounded at ape.x, narrowed at base to a brownish 

 claw, inner surface rather densely covered with 

 yellow hairs; gland lunate, situated just above 

 the claw, bordered above with short yellow often 

 clavate hairs ; anthers lanceolate, acute, 3 mm. 

 long; capsule nodding 12-18 mm long and 

 nearly as broad, broadly winged. 



\\'ooded slopes, of the L'pper Sonoran and Lower 

 Transition Zones; western slopes of the Sierra Nevada 

 from Butte to Mariposa Counties, California. Type lo- 

 cality: Bear Vallev, Nevada County. 



6. Calochortus caeruleus (Kell.) S. Wats. 

 Blue Star Tulip or Cat's Ear. Fig. 1062. 



Cyclobothrya caerulea Kell. Proc. Calif. Acad. 2: 4. 1858. 

 Calochortus caeruleus S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 14: 263. 

 1879. 



Stem mostly simple, slender and flexuous, 7-15 

 cm. high. Flowers 2-4. umbellate, open-campanu- 

 late, erect, blue ; sepals usually equalling or sur- 

 passing the petals, oblong-lanceolate, more or less 

 acuminate ; petals rhomboidal, rounded or broadly 

 triangular at apex, narrowed at base to a rather 

 slender claw, the upper surface densely covered 

 with long slender bluish hairs above the gland, 

 naked below ; gland with a transverse fringed scale ; 

 anthers oblong, obtuse. 3-4 mm. long ; capsule 

 broadly oblong-elliptic, rounded at both ends, 10-- 

 15 mm. long and nearly as broad. 



Wooded slopes of the Arid Transition Zone; western slopes 

 of the Sierra Nevada, Plumas to Placer Counties, California. 

 Type locality: "above Forest City, not far from the region of 

 perpetual .snow," Sierra Nevada, California. 



