Calochortus paludicola n. sp. 



Anstruther Davidson, .M. 1). 



Conn membraneously coated; stem lighl green, slender, 

 upright, bulbiferous a1 base, 4-6 dm. high; basal Leaves 2 

 or 3, the lowesl 1.5-2 dm. long, 4-5 nun. wide; folded; stem 

 leaves 2-3 linear. 2.5-5 em. long; (lowers 2-4 never umbellate, 

 3.5-5 cm. wide, in full anthesis somewhat rotate, sepals oblong, 

 lanceolate, acute, recurved 1.5 cm. long, one margin broadly 

 scarious at base the other less so, internally yellowish with 

 conspicuous oblong brown spots; petals rose colored to pah' 

 pink, obovate 2.5 cm. long, rounded above, occasionally 

 prominent but never apicnlate. claw purplish brown, trian- 

 gular in outline 3 mm: wide by 5 mm. long, scattering yellow 

 hairs on lower third of petals, filament and ovary light brown, 

 anthers obtuse, white or pinkish. 5 mm. long slightly shorter 

 than filament. Capsule 5 em. long tapering at each end. 



.Meadows Bear Valley, San Bernardino Mts., 6500 ft. 

 alt., July, 1909. No. 2171, Davidson-type. 



Common in the semi-moist edges of the streams and 

 meadows bordering the southern side of the Bear Valley 

 dam. Heretofore it has passed as C. invenustus, but it has no 

 relation to this but is more akin to C. Palmeri. Two other 

 Calochortii are common in this range, viz.. C. invenustus 

 Greene, and C. invenustus var. montanus Parish. Of the 

 latter Parish remark's, "it is not a satisfactory species and 

 may be no more than a var. of C. invenustus."* Not a little 

 of the confusion and uncertainty that characterizes much that 

 has been written on the mariposas has arisen from the im- 

 possibility of preserving the peculiarities of the flowers in 

 the dried slate to that only the careful notes of the field 

 student can ever determine their specific limitations. 



To the author C. invenustus seems quite distinct from 

 C. splendens. 11 somewhat resembles it in the narrow cam- 

 panulate shape of the (lower, but it differs in two important 

 particulars. The sepals of a splendens are recurved or revo- 

 lute and the inflorescence is never umbellate. 



Parish has correctly transferred C. splendens montanus 

 Purdy to C. invenustus montanus as it is obviously closely 

 related to in veimst ns. rather than to splendens. I think it 



"Bull. S. Cal. Acad. Vol. 1, 124. 



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