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LILIACEAE 



31. Calochortus splendens Dougl. 



Splendid Alariposa. Fig". 1087. 



Calochortus splendens Dougl.; Benth. Trans. Hort. Soc. II. 

 1: 411. pi. 15. 1835. 



Stems branching", 4-6 cm. high, not bulbiferous 

 at base. Flowers terminating the branches or 

 often only 2 and then umbellate ; sepals lanceolate, 

 long-acuminate, usually recurved, with purple 

 spot near the base, about two-thirds the length 

 of the petals ; petals 3-5 cm. long, broadly fan- 

 shaped, rounded at apex, lilac purple to the very 

 short dark purple claw, sparsely hairy with long 

 tangled hairs from near the middle to about 5 

 mm. from the gland ; gland covered with very 

 short glutinous hairs, or these sometimes want- 

 ing ; anthers lilac to blue, narrowly linear-lanceo- 

 late, acute, 8-10 mm. long, equalling the dilated 

 filaments ; capsule linear, attenuate at apex, 2-6 

 cm. long. 



Dry gravelly hills, usually in chaparral. Upper Sonoran 

 Zone; California Coast Ranges, Santa Clara County to San 

 Luis Obispo. Type locality: California, probably near 

 the San Antonio Mission, Monterey Coimty. 



32. Calochortus palmeri S. 

 Palmer's Alariposa. Fig". 



Wats. 

 1088. 



Calochortus palmeri S. Wats. Proc. 

 Calochortus striatus Parish, Bull. S. 



Am. Acad. 14: 266. 

 Calif. Acad. 1 : 122. 



1879. 

 1902. 



Stem very slender, lax and flexuous, 3-5 dm. 

 high, glaucous, not bulbiferous near the base, aris- 

 ing from an oblong membranously coated corm. 

 Basal leaves 1 or 2, narrowly linear, about 10 cm. 

 long; bracts linear, scarious-margined; sepals ob- 

 long, short-acuminate, the tip at length recurved ; 

 petals rather narrowly obovate-cuneate, 20-25 cm. 

 long, white to very light purple, the claw brown, 

 naked except for a few scattering hairs surrounding 

 the gland, this large, undefined, covered with short 

 linear hairs ; anthers oblong, obtuse, 6 mm. long ; 

 capsule very narrow, about 25 mm. long or more. 



Alkaline meadows, Lower Sonoran Zone; Mojave Desert, 

 southern California. Type locality: "near the Mojave River," 

 probably Las Flores Rancho, San Bernardino County. 



33. Calochortus dunnii Purdv 



1089. 



Dunn's Alariposa. F 



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2: 147. 



Calochortus dunnii Purdy, Proc. Calif. Acad. III. 

 1901. 



Calochortus palmeri dunnii Jepson & Ames, Fl. Calif. 1: 

 294. 1921. 



Stem slender, erect, branching, 3-5 dm. high, 

 not bullnferous. Basal leaves usually 2, linear, 

 deeply channelled, 10-20 cm. long ; the stem leaves 

 bract-like, 3-5 cm. long; flowers terminating the 

 branches, rather open-carnpanulate ; sepals ovate, 

 acute, 15 mm, long, greenish white within and 

 faintly spotted, the tips not 

 broadly cuneate, 20 mm. long, 

 rounded at apex, white with 

 band above the gland, naked 

 scattering hairs on either side of the gland ; gland 

 small, round, densely covered with short matted 

 hairs ; anthers oblong, obtuse, mucronulate, 3-4 

 mm. long, white ; filaments dilated below, 5 mm. 

 long ; capsule linear, attenuate at apex, 3 cm. long. 



Dry gravelly hillsides in open chaparral. Upper So- 

 noran Zone; Cuyamaca Mountains, San Diego County, 

 California. Type locality: "near Julian, .San Diego 

 County, California." 



recurvmg; petais 



as broad as lon,fi", 



a reddish brown 



except for short 



