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16. Calochortus uniflorus Hook. & Am. 

 Large-flowered Star Tulij). Fig. 1072. 



Calochortus uniflorus Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beechey. 398. pi. 94. 

 1841. 



Calochortus lilucmus Kell. Proc. Calif. Acad. 2: 5. 1858. 



Stem 10-25 cm. high, flexuous, usually branchcl, 

 bulbiferous near the base. Umbels 1-3, and usually 

 1-4-flowered, sepals ovate to oblong-lanceolate, 12-10 

 mm. long, greenish lilac ; petals lilac often with a 

 purple spot on each side of tlie gland, cuneate, 

 nearly truncate, denticulate, 20-25 mm. long, naked 

 above, sparingly hairy just above the gland; gland 

 shallow, not pitted, with a narrow appressed tri- 

 angular scale ; filaments slender, twice the length 

 of the anthers ; anthers oblong, 4 mm. long, obtuse, 

 lilac; capsule elliptic, rounded at both ends, 10-15 

 mm. long, nodding. 



Wet meadows, Upper Sonoran and Humid Transition 

 Zones; Coast Ranges, from the Siskiyou Mountains, near 

 Grants Pass, Oregon, to Monterey, California. Type locality: 

 Monterey, California. 



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17. Calochortus lyallii Baker. 

 Lyall's Star Tulip. Fig. 1073. 



Calochortus lyallii Baker, Journ. Linn. Soc. 14: 305. 1875. 



Calochortus citiatus Robins. & Seaton, Bot. Gaz. 18: 238. 

 1893. 



Stem flexuous, 15-20 cm. high. Flowers 2-8, 

 erect, broadly campanulate ; sepals greenish white, 

 lanceolate, acuminate, 8-15 mm. long; petals white 

 tinged with bluish purple, scarcely longer than the 

 sepals, narrowly ovate, acute, conspicuously ciliate 

 on the margins, glabrous except the yellow doubly 

 fringed lunate scale ; stamens half as long as petals ; 

 anthers 4-5 mm. long, oblong, sagittate, apiculate ; 

 capsule erect in front, elliptic, 14-18 mm. long, 

 acutely 3-winged. 



Grassy slopes among pines, of the Hudsonian Zone; 

 Wenatchee Mountains, eastern Washington. Type locality: "Co- 

 lumbia lirittanica ad apicem mentis alt 5,800 pedes inter fluv. 

 Columbia et Yakima." 



18. Calochortus shastensis Purely. 

 Shasta Star Tulip. Fig. 1074. 



Calochortus shastensis Purdv, Proc. Calif. Acad. III. 2: 

 125. 1901. 



Calochortus nudus shastensis Jepson, Fl. Calif. 1: 301. 

 1921. 



Stem slender, erect, 10-25 cm. high. Sepals 

 ovate, acute or acuminate 10-12 mm. long, green 

 without, spotted with purple near the base within ; 

 petals white or lilac, broadly fan-shaped, 15 mm. 

 long, broadly obtuse or somewhat truncate at 

 apex, denticulate, naked or sometimes with a few 

 hairs above the gland ; scale ascending, fringed ; 

 filaments slender, 6 mm. long ; anthers linear- 

 oblong, 4 inm. long, obtuse at the apex, slightly 

 sagittate at base, creamy white or lilac ; capsule, 

 strictly erect, elliptic, acutish at both ends, 15-20 

 mm. long. 



Open moist meadows, in the Transition Zone; Siskiyou 

 and Shasta Counties, California. Type locality: open 

 moist meadows in the vicinity of Sisson, Shasta County, 

 California. 



