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LILIACEAE 



7. Calochortus elegans Pursh. 

 Elegant Star Tulip or Cat's Ear. Fig-. 1063. 



Calochortus elegans Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 1: 240. 1S14. 

 Cvclobollirva elegans Benth.; Lindl. Bot. Reg. 20: under 

 pi. 1662'. 1834. 



Stem very slender, flexuous. 1-2 dm. high. 

 Basal leaf surpassing the stem, 2-9 mm. wide ; 

 bracts linear, attenuated, 15-30 mm. long; tlowers 

 1-3, open-campanulate. erect or somewhat drooping, 

 on slender pedicels 2-5 cm. long; sepals ovate- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, 12-16 mm. long, greenish 

 white tinged with purple at base ; petals white 

 tinged with purple, obovate, obtuse, 12-20 mm. 

 long, densely hairy on the inner surface and ciliate 

 on the margins ; scale narrow, ascending, deeply 

 lacerate ; anthers 5 mm. long, acuminate ; capsule 

 nodding, elliptic, 2 cm. long, 12-15 mm. wide. 



Shaded slopes, of the .^rid Transition and Canadian 

 Zones; eastern slopes of the Cascade Mountains, Washing- 

 ton to Montana and Utah. Type locality: "on the head- 

 waters of the Kooskooky," Idaho. 



8. Calochortus nanus (Wood) Piper. 

 Dwarf Star Tulip. Fig. 1064. 



elegans nanus Wood, Proc. Acad. Philad. 1868: 168. 



Calochortus 



ir68. 



Calochortus nanus Piper, Bull. Torrey Club 33: 537. 1906. 



Stems erect slender, 10-15 cm. high, from ovoid, deep- 

 seated bulbs. Basal leaf surpassing the stem, 2-7 mm. 

 wide ; bracts linear-lanceolate ; flowers 1 to several, open- 

 campanulate, erect or somewhat drooping, on slender 

 pedicels about 25 mm. long ; sepals oblong-ovate, short- 

 acuminate, 12-15 mm. long, tinged with violet-purple ; 

 petals broadly obovate 15-18 mm. long, faintly tinged with 

 violet, hairy over the entire inner surface, ciliate on the 

 margin ; scale about one-third as broad as the petal, neariy 

 semi-circular, but little incised ; anthers acuminate, equal- 

 ling the flattened filaments ; capsule nodding, orbicular at 

 maturity, 15 min. long. 



Open coniferous forests, Transition and Canadian Zones; Siskiyou 

 Mountains of northern California and perhaps southern Oregon. 

 Type locality: mountains west of Yreka. 





9. Calochortus maweanus Leicht. 

 Hairy Star Tulip. Fig". 1065. 



(.'alochortus maivcanus Leicht.; Baker, Tourn. Linn. Soc. 

 1875. 



14: 305. 



Stem flexuous, usually simple, 8-20 cm. high. Flow- 

 ers open-campanulate, erect, white or more or less 

 tinged with purplish blue; petals 12-20 mm. long, 

 nearly orbicular, obovate or somewhat rhomboidal, 

 broadly or abruptly acute, the upper surface covered 

 with long slender white or bluish, spreading hairs 

 above the gland, naked below ; gland covered above 

 with a narrow transverse scale, the entire surface thickly 

 bearded with long erect white or bluish hairs ; anthers 

 lanceolate, acuminate, 4—5 mm. long ; capsule oblong- 

 elliptic, 25 mm. long, 10-12 mm. thick, narrowly winged. 



Moist wooded slopes, L'pper Sonoran and Transition Zones; 

 Josephine and Curry Counties. Oregon, to Santa Cruz and Butte 

 Counties, California. Type locality: California. 



