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Flowers orange-eolor to lemon-yellow; petals fringed or serrate. 



Petals broadly fan-shaped, the margins fringed or serrate 14. C. weedii. 



Petals ovate, generally blaek-tipped, much shorter than the sepals, the margins long-fringed. 



15. C. ohispoensis. 

 Flowers lilac or lilac-purple; petals neither fringed nor serrate 16. C. plummerae. 



B. Flowers closed-campanulate (or subglobose) ; flowers and capsules nodding; petals 



strongly incurved or arched, the gland deeply pocketed and transversely crested 

 or bearded; basal leaf solitary. 

 Petals yellow, the margins fimbriate; gland pocket hidden by long hairs borne in 2 or 3 



more or less regular rows on the upper fold of the pocket 17. C. pulchelUis. 



Petals white to pale pink or rose, the margins entire; gland lunate, pocketed, with 4 transverse 

 imbricate scales 18. C. albus. 



C. Flowers campanulate, erect or ascending, the capsules usually nodding; gland shallow 



to moderately pocketed, covered from below by a narrow fringed scale and crested 

 above (except in C. nudus) by short hairs or scales; claw of petal below the scale 

 often more or less glandular; basal leaf solitary, conspicuously long, surpassing the 

 inflorescence. 



Petals obovate, mostly acute, hairy all over; gland proper (excluding the more or less glandular 

 claw of petal below the scale) from moderately curved or lunate to horseshoe-shaped, 

 but always concave on its lower margin; anthers lanceolate-acute. 



Petals yellow, or brownish, the hairs all yellow 19. C. monophyllus. 



Petals white to purplish blue, the hairs on lower half usually blue, on upper half white 



20. C. caeruleus. 

 Petals fan- or wedge-shaped, truneatish or roimded, naked, or hairy only near the gland; gland 

 proper straight or nearly so in no. 21, in nos. 22 to 24 saucer-shaped to bowl-shaped 

 in outline and always convex on the lower margin; anthers linear to oblong (or nar- 

 rowly eliptic), acute or obtuse. 

 Petals white; capsules nodding. 



Petals naked; anthers linear; Sierra Nevada 21. C. nuchis. 



Petals hairy about the gland; anthers short oblong; Bay region 22. C. umhellatus. 



Petals lilac. 



Petals finely denticulate, hairy on lower third; capsules nodding 23. C. uniflorus. 



Petals entire, a very few scattered hairs above the gland; capsules usually erect 



24. C. grcenei. 



1. C. catalinae Wats. Stem commonly branched, 1 to 2 feet high; sepals 

 green, shorter than the jietals; petals eiineate, longer than wide, rounded at sum- 

 mit, white tinged with lilac, or lilac or light purple, a large ovate purplish maroon 

 spot at base surrounding the gland ; gland oblong, covered with dark hairs ; 

 anthers obtuse, pinkish, shorter than the filaments: capsule oblong, obtuse, 1 to 

 2 inches long, 4 to 5 lines wide ; seeds very numerous, white, thin, minutely pitted, 

 2 lines in diameter. 



Coast of Southern California, local from Santa Barbara Co. to Los Angeles 

 Co., and common on the Santa Barbara Islands. Very constant in coloration. 



Locs. — Santa Inez Mts., aec. Abrams; Santa Paula, Cohb 134; Santa Monica Mts., Sail 

 3263; Casitas Pass, Hall 3137; Glendora, Braunton 208; Avalon, Traslc. 



Eefs. — Calochortus cat.vlinae Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 14:268 (1879), type loc. Santa 

 Catalina Isl., Schumacher; Davidson, Erythea, 2:2 (1894). C. lyonii Wats. I.e. 21:4.55 (1886). 



2. C. flexuosus Wats. Stem slender, remarkably sinuous, weak, commonly 

 straggling over the ground ; sepals greenish with a deep purple spot ; petals with 

 numerous striae, truneatish at apex, deep purple (rarely white), with variable 

 bands or spots ; gland and its hairs like C. palmeri. 



Death Yalle.y region. East through .southern Nevada to southern Utah. 



Loes. — Argus Mts., ace. Jones in litt. Bighorn Cafion, Grapevine Mts., Nev. (near Cal. 

 line), CoviUe 4- Funston 978. 



Kefs. — Calochortus Fi.exuosus Wats. Am. Nat. 7:303 (1873), type loc. s. Utah, Tlwmp- 

 son; Gov., Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 4:204 (1893). C. cmnosus Nelson, Bot. Gaz., 47:425 

 (1909), type loc. Las Vegas, Nev., Gooding 2323. 



