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LILIACEAE 



25. Calochortus clavatus S. Wats. Clul)-haired Mariposa. Fig. 1081. 



Calochortiis cla-ratiis S. \\'ats. Proc. Am. Acad. 14: 265. 

 1879. 



Stem stout, stiff, simple or usually branched, 

 4-18 dm. high, not bulbiferous. Leaves deeply 

 cliannelled ; flowers in a 2-5-tlowered ter- 

 minal umbel scattered along the stem on 

 the shorter branches ; sepals ovate, yellowish 

 within ; petals 34—45 mm. long, broadly fan- 

 shaped and strongly arched, with a broad claw, 

 nearly truncate at apex, deep yellow with a 

 usually reddish brown claw, and a reddish 

 brown band above the hairy zone, the sides of 

 the gland and the lower half of the petals 

 hairy with yellow club-shaped hairs ; gland 

 deep, co\'ered with short matted hairs ; anthers 

 oblong, obtuse, 10-12 mm. long, red-brown; 

 capsule lanceolate, long-attenuate, 6-7 cm. long. 



Wooded canon slopes. Upper Sonoran Zone; San 

 Benito County to the Santa Monica Mountains, Los 

 Angeles County, California; also in Mariposa County, 

 according to Purdy. Type locality: San Luis Obispo, 

 California. 



26. Calochortus concolor (Baker) Purely. 

 Golden-bowl Mariposa. Fig. 1082. 



Calochortus hiteus concolor Baker, Garden 48: 440. 1895. 

 Calochortus concolor Purdy, Proc. Calif. Acad. III. 2: 135. 



1901. 



Stems stout. 3-5 dm. high, mostly simple. Leaf 

 linear-lanceolate, glaucous, deeply channelled ; 

 cauline leaves 1-5, linear-attenuated, involute, 6-lU 

 cm. long ; sepals 25-30 mm. long, ovate-lanceolate, 

 acute, broadly scarious-margined, yellow within and 

 usually with a purple spot near the base ; petals a 

 deep yellow, sometiines tinged with purple, with or 

 without a purple area abo\ e and below the gland. 

 fan-shaped, 25-35 mm. long and as broad, the lower 

 third covered with erect yellow hairs ; gland small, 

 oblong; anthers yellow, 8-10 mm. long, nearly twice 

 the length of the broad filaments ; capsule strongly 

 3-angled with thickened margins, attenuate at apex. 



Dry hillsides, Upper and Lower Sonoran Zones; southern 

 slopes of the San JBernardino Mountains to northern Lower 

 California. Type locality: Laguna, San Diego County, Cali- 

 fornia. 



27. Calochortus kennedyi Porter 



Red or Kennedy's Mariposa. Fig. 1083. 



Calochortus kennedyi Porter, Bot. Gaz. 2: 79. 1877. 

 Calochortus speciosus Tones, Contr. West. Bot. 14: 27. 

 1912. 



Stems simple, stout, glaucous, 10-25 cm. high. 

 Basal leaves narrowly linear, deeply channelled, 

 glaucous, about equalling the stem ; stem leaves, 

 1 or 2 or sometimes wanting, 3-5 cm. long, thick- 

 ish and recurved, broadly scarious-margined ; 

 umbels 2-4-flowered ; sepals ovate, acute, 20-30 

 mm. long, orange-red witliin, usually with a con- 

 spicuous brown spot at liase ; petals cuneate- 

 obovate, apiculate at apex, 25-35 mm. long, bright 

 orange-red, the claws usually brownish-purple, 

 naked except for a few scattered hairs about the 

 gland, this small, round, covered with very short 

 matted hairs ; anthers oblong-ovate, obtuse, 

 purple, 6-8 mm. long; filaments dilated, half the 

 length of the anthers ; capsule stout, linear-lan- 

 ceolate, 4-5 cm. long. 



Dry gravelly hills and mesas of the de.sert region, 

 Sonoran Zones; Mount Finos. Ventura County, and the 

 desert slopes of the Tehachapi Mountains to southern Ne- 

 vada and Arizona. Type locality: Kern County, California. 



