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LILIACEAE 



19. Calochortus longebarbatus S. \\'ats. Long-haired Star Tulip. Fig. 1075. 



-n Calochortus longebarbatus S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 17: 381. 



1SS2. 



Stem slender, about 25-35 cm. high, bulbiferous 

 near the base. Flowers 1 or 2, campanulate, erect; 

 sepals lanceolate, 15-20 mm. long; petals lilac, yellow- 

 ish at base, obovate, 20-25 mm. long, rounded at the 

 summit and erose-denticulate, nearly naked except 

 at gland, this bordered with long flexuous hairs; 

 anthers narrowly oblong, obtuse, half the length of 

 the slender filaments, 3-4 mm. long; capsule 20-25 

 mm. long, broadly elliptic, abruptly pointed at both 

 ends, conspicuously winged. 



In low grassy ground, Upper Sonoran and Arid Transition 

 Zones; Klickitat County, Washington, and adjacent Oregon. 

 Type locality: "Falcon Valley, Klickitat County," Washington. 



20. 



Calochortus nitidus Dougl. 



Brilliant Alariposa. 



Fig. 



1076. 



Calochortus nitidus Dougl. Trans. Hort. Soc. 7: 277. pi. 9. 



1830. 

 Calochortus favonaccus Fernald, Bot. Gaz. 19: 335. 1894. 



Stem erect, stift', 3-4 dm. high. Umbel 1-4- 

 flowered ; sepals purplish, ovate-lanceolate, petals 

 cuneate-obovate, 30-35 mm. long, lavender to 

 purple, with a lunate dark purple band immedi- 

 ately above the gland, long-villous over the lower 

 third, long-ciliate on the margin to the denti- 

 culate summit ; gland small, orbicular, covertd 

 wath yellow hairs ; filaments 10 mm. long, dilated 

 below ; anthers oblong, obtuse 6-8 mm. long ; 

 capsule broadly elliptic. 20 mm. long, broadly 

 winged, abruptly rounded to the short beak. 



Grassy hillsides and meadows, of the Transition Zone; 

 eastern Washington to Montana and northeastern Oregon. 

 Type locality: "on the chain of the Columbia, fron^ the 

 confluence of the Spokane River upwards." 



21. Calochortus greenei S. Wats. Greene's Alariposa. Fig. 1077. 



Calochortus grccnci S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 14: 264. 1879. 



Stem stout, 3-4 dm. high, usually branched. Flow- 

 ers 2-5. erect, open-campanulate ; sepals oblong-lan- 

 ceolate, greenish tinged with lilac on the inner sur- 

 face, and with a yellowish hairy spot above the 

 base ; petals lilac, barred with yellow below, fan- 

 shaped, 39-40 cm. long, strongly pitted and arched, 

 thinly villous on the upper part of the inner surface, 

 densely so on the lower with yellow hairs ; gland 

 densely villous above the broad transverse laciniate 

 scale: anthers obtuse, 10 mm. long; capsule 25 mm. 

 long, 15 mm. liroad, attenuate at apex into a stout 

 lieak, 8-12 nun. wide. 



A little known si)ecies of northern California. Collected in 

 Siskiyou and Modoc Counties. Type locality: Siskiyou County, 

 California. 



