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34. Calochortus paludicolus Davidson. 

 Meadow Mariposa. Fig. 1090. 



Dwntaniis Purdy, Proc. Acail. III. 2: 



143. 



1910. 

 294. 



Calochortus spleiidens 



1901. In part. 

 Caloclwrtus paludicolus Davidson, Bull. S. Calif. Acad. 9: 53. 

 Calochortus palmcri paludicolus Tepson &■ .\nies, FI. Calif. 1 : 



1921. 



Stem A-6 dm. high, bulbiferous at base. Basal leaves 2 or 

 3, 15-20 cm. long, 4-5 mm. wide; stem leaves 2 or 3, 25-50 

 mm. long ; flowers usually 2-4, terminating the branches, 

 never umbellate, sepals oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 15 mm. 

 long, yellowish within, with a conspicuous oblong brown spot 

 toward the base, recurved in anthesis ; petals fan-shaped, 

 rounded at apex, or somewhat apiculate, 25 mm. long, rose- 

 colored, the claw brownish purple, hairy on the lower third 

 with yellowish hairs; gland triangular, covered with short 

 hairs; filaments brownish purple, slender, 7-8 mm. long; 

 anthers oblong, obtuse, 4 mm. long, white or pinkish ; capsule 

 5 cm. long, attenuate at apex. 



Mountain meadows and stream banks, Transition Zone; San Ber- 

 nardino and San Jacinto Mountains, southern California. Type local- 

 ity: meadows, Bear Valley, San Bernardino Mountains. California. 



Calochortus flexuosus S. Wats. Am. Nat. 7: 393. 1873. Stems 

 decumbent or ascending more or less flexuous and branching; petals 

 broadly cuneate-obovate, purple or white, with yellowish base; gland 

 rounded, clothed with simple linear hairs. Southern Nevada, and pos- 

 sibly adjacent California, east to southern Utah and Arizona. Type 

 locality; Las \'egas, Nevada. 



35. Calochortus leichtlinii Hocik. i. 

 Leichtlin's Mariposa. Fig. 1091. 



pi. 5862. 1870. 

 Contr. West. Bot. 



Calochortus leichtlinii Hook. f. B'ot. Mag. 96: 

 Calochortus nutiallii suhalpinus M. E. Tones, 

 12: 78. 1908. 



Stem erect, simple, 2-4 dm. high, bulbiferous at base. 

 Leaves narrowly linear, strongly revolute, the basal 10-15 

 cm. long, the 1-3 cauline similar but shorter ; umbels 

 usually 2-flowered ; sepals ovate-lanceolate, about two- 

 thirds the length of the petals, yellowish within and usually 

 with a deep purple sometimes hairy spot below the middle ; 

 petals cuneate-obovate, 25-35 mm. long, obtuse or abruptly 

 acute, white above tinged with greenish yellow or lilac, 

 and with a dark greenish purple spot above the yellow 

 gland, claw yellow, sparsely hairy around the gland, with 

 yellow hairs, otherwise naked ; gland somewhat concealed 

 by long reflexed yellow hairs, covered by a mat of tangled 

 whitish hairs ; filaments about equalling or shorter than 

 the anthers, pale yellow ; anthers linear-oblong, more or 

 less conspicuously sagittate at base, 6-8 mm. long ; cap- 

 sule lanceolate-attenuate, above the middle, 3-5 cm. long. 



Open gravelly situations, mainly Arid Transition Zone; east- 

 ern Oregon to the southern Sierra Nevada, eastward to South 

 Dakota and New Mexico. Type locality; Sierra Nevada, Cali- 

 fornia. 



36. Calochortus invenustus Greene. 

 Plain Mariposa. Fig. 1092. 



Calochortus invenustus Greene, Pittonia 2: 71. 1890. 

 Calochortus invenustus montanus Parish, Bull. S. Calif. .Vcad. 



1: 124. 1902. 

 Calochortus montanus Davidson, Bull. S. Calif. ,\cad. 9: 54. 



1910. 



Stems simple, 1-6 din. high, bulbiferous at base, 

 glaucous. Basal leaves 1 or rarely 2, narrowly linear, 

 15-25 cm. long, deeply channelled, glaucous; stem leaves 

 1 or rarely 2, 5-10 cm. long, sometimes wanting; uinbel 

 2-4-flowered, sepals ovate-lanceolate, acute, about two- 

 thirds the length of the petals, yellowish green within, 

 the tips rarelj' recurving ; petals narrowly obovate- 

 cuneate, 25-35 mm. long, prominently apiculate at apex, 

 white, more or less tinged with green, the short claw 

 purplish, sparsely white hairy just above the gland, 

 otherwise naked ; gland small, lanceolate, purple, cov- 

 ered with short matted hairs ; anthers oblong-linear, 

 obtuse, 7-8 mm. long ; filaments 5-6 mm. long ; capsule 

 linear, attenuate at apex, 4 cm. long. 



Dry gravelly ridges. Transition Zone: Santa Lucia Moun- 

 tains, Monterey County, and the Tchachapi Mountains, south to 

 the Cuyamaca Mountains, San Diego County, California. Type 

 locality: "higher mountains to the westward of the Mojave 

 Desert," probably the Tehachapi Mountains. 



