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valleys ; and in the Sierra Nevada foothills, mostly below 1800 or 2500 feet. May- 

 June. The most abundant species; extremely variable in color and markings; 

 commonly in the hardest gravel-packed soil. 



Locs. — Windsor, Sonoma Co., Jcpsnn 765fi; Crystal Sprs., San Mateo Co., Eastwood; Los 

 Gatos, EeUcr 7387; San Luis Obispo Co., Jihoda Beed; Monterey Co., Purdy. We have seen 

 no specimens from Southern California. Tlie following are color forms: Var. citrinus Wats., 

 whole petal orange-yellow with a central brown spot. — North Coast Ranges to Sierra foothills : 

 Bear Valley, w. Colusa Co., Jepson, 8969 (dark purple eye-spot, gland crescent-shaped), 9012 

 (black eye in a spot of orange, gland half moon-shaped) ; Howell Mt. foothills, Jepson 2-1.32; 

 Vacavillo, Jepson 424.5; Sacramento, Shocldey 397; Jackass Hill, Tuttletown, Wm. Grant. 

 Var. oculatus Wats. (Fig. 51 f. g) ; petals white 6r cream with a central round or transverse 

 brown spot bordered with yellow. — North Coast Ranges (ace. Purdy) to the Sierra foothills: 

 Redding, Heller 784.5; Columbia, Belen OHkey ; Jones Sta., Middle Tuolumne River, A. L. 

 Grant 836; Dunlap, Fresno Co., Jepson 2755. 



Var. vestae Jepson n. comb. (Fig. 51h.) Petals pure white above the purple brown eye- 

 spot, heavily penciled between the eye-spot and the gland; gland very narrow, extending in a 

 long arching curve from side to side of the petal and notched or as if interrupted at the 

 summit of the arch (that is "doubly lunate"). — Blue adobe soil, interior Sonoma Co. to 

 Humboldt Co. 



Locs. — Anderson Valley, ace. Purd'j; Larribee Creek, Tracy 4713; Buck Mt., Tracy 4513. 



Rcfs. — C.^LOCHORTUS LUTEUS Dougl. ; Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1567 (1833), tvpe from Cal., 

 Dmtglas; Wats. Proe. Am. Acad. 14:265 (1879); Bot. Cal. 2:175 (1880); Jepson Fl. W. Mid. 

 Cal. 112 (1901). Var. citrinus Wats. I.e. C. venustus Dougl. var. citrinus Baker, Jour. Linn. 

 Soe. Bot. 14:310 (1874), type from Cal., Bridges 284. Var. oculatus Wats. I.e. Var. vestae 

 Jepson. C. venusiu.s var. vesta Purdv in Bailey, Cycl. Am. Hort. 1:221 (1902). C. vesta 

 Wallace, Gard. Chron. ser. 3, 18:14 "(1895); Purdy, Proc. Cal. Acad. ser. 3 (Bot.), 2:139 

 (1901), type loc, Ukiah Valley, Purdy. 



6. C. venustus Dougl. White M.\riposa. (Fig. 51i, j.) Stem erect, stiff, 

 usually hraiiehiiig, 4 to 10 inches or up to 2 or 4 feet high, 1 to 4-flowered ; bulb- 

 let at base uisually 1 ; petals broadly cuneate-obovate, 1 to 1%^ inches broad, 1 to 

 21/0 inches long, white, varying to pale rose-color or lilac, with a red-brown eye- 

 spot above the gland, frequently penciled toward the base, and often with a 

 transversely oblong rose-colored blotch near the apex ; gland roundish, or quad- 

 rate, densely matted with short hairs, a few scattered hairs near the gland ; 

 capsule linear, 2 to Sli inches long. 



Frequent in light sandy or alkaline soil: Coast Eanges from Mendocino Co. 

 south to Los Angeles Co. ; borders of the Sacramento and Sau Joaquin valleys ; 

 Sierra Nevada foothills and up to 2500 or even 5000 feet. June-July. 



Quite constant in the shape of the gland and infinitely variable in its color markings. One 

 finds hillslopes in the Sierras, dotted with hundreds of individuals, but no t\vo flowers exactly 

 alike in the details of the color pattern. 



Locs. — Tejon Pass, Hall 6265a; Ojai Valley, Olive Thacher; San Luis Valley, Summers 

 844; Paso Robles, Purdy; Gilroy, Jepson; Coyote Creek, Santa Clara Co., Jepson; Niles, 

 Jepson; Mt. Diablo, Jepson 7571; Vacaville, Jepson; Round Valley, Mendocino Co., Wester- 

 man; Morley's Sta., Shasta Co., Baker 4' Nuitinp ; Murphy, A. L. Grant; Columbia, Jepson 

 6346, Helen GiJkey; Linden, San Joaquin Co., Gunnison; Hamilton's, Mariposa Co., A. L. 

 Grant; Eight Mile, Wawona Road, Jepson 4294; Miami Lodge, Mariposa Co., Jepson 8398; 

 Cascada, Fresno Co., A. L. Grant (petals bronze color) ; Greenhorn Range, Hall 4" Babcock 5064. 



Refs. — Calochortus ventjstus Dougl.; Benth. Trans. Hort. Soc. Lond. ser. 2, 1:412, pi. 15, 

 fig. 3 (1835), type from Cal., Douglas; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Gal., Ill (1901). Var. PUR- 

 purascens Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 14:266 (1879), "petals deep lilao or purplish with similar 

 markings." — Kern Co. Var. sulphureus Purdy, Proe. Cal. Acad. ser. 3, 2:141 (1901), petals 

 light yellow, oculated. — Newhall and Alcalde. 



7. C. splendens Dougl. Lilac IMariposa. (Fig. 52a-c.) Stem erect. 1 to 

 2 feet high : si'|ials with a small purplish black spot at the base ; petals fan-shaped, 

 clear lilac with long .scattered hairs on the lower third oi* fourth; gland small, 

 round or oval, situated very low on the base of the petal or sometimes absent ; 

 gland surface covered with broad hairs whose expanded fungoid stellate tips 

 form a dense mass; capsule narrowly linear, IV2 to 2 inches long. 



