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6. Calochortus purdyi Eastwood, Pioc. Cal. Acad. 111. 1: l;^7. l,s<),s. 

 Tyi'k ux'alitv: (i rants Pass, Oregon, Collected by IIowcll. 

 IIange: Western Washington and western Oregon. 



Specimens exa.mined: Seattle, Pipe?-, June 4, 1883; Meainj, Juiw, 1885. 

 Zonal dlstiubution: Iliiniid Transition. 



7. Calochortus lyallii Baker, Journ. Linn. vSoc. 14: .305. 1875. 

 Calocliortm ciliaiux Ilcjhinson & Seaton, Bot. Gaz. 18: 238. 1893. 



Type locality; "Columbia brittanica ad apiceni nioufs all. ,5,N()() j,,.,les inter fluv. 

 Columbia et Yakima." Collected by Lyall. 



Rancie: Eastern Washington, in the Cascade Mountains. 



Specimens examined: Naches Kiver, Ilcndenson 24<S5; Mount Stuart, San./hm/ d- 

 Leiberg 575; Wenache Mountains, WUted 1139, -10; Coiton \2m, 1.313, l'().57: AA'enuche 

 region, Brandegee 1107; without locality, Vaney 82. 



Zonal distribution: Iludsonian. 



A specimen of E. ciliaius from the Wenache Mountains, the type locality for each sup- 

 posed species, was sent to Mr. J. G. Baker, who reports tliat it "is not exactly the same" 

 as the type of C. lyallii, "as it dill'ers in the relat've length of anther to filament." A 

 fairly large series of specimens convinces me that two species can not be maintain..,! as 

 distinct on such a basis. 



8. Calochortus subalpinus sp. nov. 



Bulbs ovate, 2 to 3 cm. Ion-, tlu" outei' coats daik; stems flexuous, erect, 15 to 20 cm 

 high, usually exc^eeded by the solitary leaf, 1 to 3-(lowered; leaf linear-lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate, 3 to 8 mm. wide, paler beneath; brads lanceolate, long-acuminate, 2 to 3 cni. long; 

 sepals lance-ovate, acuminate, somewhat scarious on the margins, 1.5 to 2.5 cm. loner' 

 6 to 9-nerved, the base strongly arched forming a shallow pit inside, this marked l.v'^a 

 purple spot; petals cream-colored, purpli.sh at base, obovate or rhombic-orbicular, 2 to 3 

 cm. long, slightly erose at margin, .sparsely villous oxvv the upper face abov(^ the striate 

 minutely puberulent gland excepting a narrow portion near the apex; scale narrow, entire, 

 extending in a gentle curve nearly across the petal and covered with long, retrorsL liairsi 

 lilaments broadly wing-margined, equalling the long-beaked anthers; capsules nodding,' 

 •■ irrowly elliptic, rather acutish at each end, 2 to 3 cm. long, beak(>d by a style 1 10^2 



mm. loiu 



A subalpine species closely allied to C. purdyi Eastw*oo(l, which dilfers in having thinner 

 sepals lacking the pit at the base, more villous petals without the naked apical area, less 

 villous scales which are very strongly arched, a mu<ai thinner perfectly smooth gland', and 

 merely acuminate, not beaked, anthers. 



Specimens examined: Washington: Mount St. Helens, C'orille 705, .July 18, 1898; 

 Mount Adum^ Henderson 52; Klickitat River, FZe« 1124; Skamania County, s'utsdoif, 

 August 11, 1886; White Salmon, Suhsdorf in 1879; Falco^i Vallev, Sul'sdorf, Julv 1 Au"u.st 

 1881. ' J, J , ^ . 



Oregon: Mount Hood, A. Wood in 1806; Gorman, September 23, 1896; Dr. C. II. Mer- 

 /•ia/H, altitude 6,000 to 7,000 feet in 1896; Howell in iS81 (type, in U. S. National Her- 

 barium); Three Sisters, Gorman 121, July 21, 1903, altitude 6,000 feet. 



This species was included in C elegans nanus Wood by its author, but the type of that 

 came from near Yreka, California, and is quite different from this subalpine or alpine 

 northern spt^cies. In Howell's Flora of Northwest America this species is well described, 

 but under the name C. lyallii Baker, which belongs to a very dillercnt species. The species 

 has also been confused with C. apiculatus Baker. 



MELANTHACEAE. BuxcH-FLOWEn Family. 



Anthers 1-ceIled; leaves neither rigid nor equitant. 



Leaves broad; petioles sheathing; flowers in a large panicle. . Veratrum (p. 196). 

 ;aves narrow, grass-like. 



