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above the gland ; gland broadly A-shaped or oval with a notch on the lower side, 

 bordered by a continuous doubly laciniate membrane and densely covered with 

 broad hairs whose divided clavate tips form a compact mass; anthers purple oi* 

 yellow, ovate-lanceolate, acutish, 4 to 7 lines long; capsule attenuate, li-j to 214 

 inches long; seeds round, fiat, 2^4 lines in diameter. 



Dry sandy soil in the interior: Lassen and ilodoc cos. North to British 

 Columbia. 



Loes. — Susanville, T. Brandcgee ; Eagle Lake, M. S. Baker; Mt. Bidwell, Jepson 78.j7. 



Eef. — Calochortus MACROC.iRPUs Doiigl. Trans. Hort. Soe. Loud. 7:276, pi. 8 (1830), 

 type loc. near the Great Falls of the Columbia Eiver, Douglas. 



11. C. clavatus Wats. (Fig. 53c-e.) Stem very stout, stiff, strongly zigzag, 

 branching, 1 to 3 feet Jiigh ; cauline leaves broad ; pedicels stout, 2 to 5 inches 

 long ; flowers liowl-shajied ; sepals yellowish within, often purplLsh spotted, green- 

 ish without, with dry scarious margins ; petals rich yellow, broadly fan-shaped, 

 rather truncate, IV2 to 2 inches long, 11/2 to 214 inches wide, strongly arched, 

 hairy below the middle or only near the gland, often with a narrow reddish 

 brown or lilac band above the hairy zone, the claw often reddish brown ; hairs 

 of the petals scattered, yellow, purpli.sh red at base, the tips narrowly clavate ; 

 gland circular, bordered by an annular membrane, its inner edge deeply twice 

 incised ; gland surface thickly covered with very broad hairs with much divided 

 or coralline tips; anthers ovate-oblong, obtuse, purjilish brown, shorter than the 

 slender filaments ; capsule linear, attenuate above and below, 3 inches long. 



Dry rocky points, usually in volcanic soils: South Coast Ranges (San Benito 

 Co. to Los Angeles), infrequent; rare in the central Sierra Nevada. May. 



Loes. — Coast Eangea (sepals % the length of the petals and gland in a shallow pocket) : 

 San Carlos Creek, Jepson 2730; Arroyo Grande, Alice King; Ojal Valley, Olive Thachcr; San 

 Fernando, comm. by EIi:abcth Polmrr; Mint Canon, San Gabriel Mts., Peirson 288. Sierra 

 Nevada (sepals equal to or exceeding the petals, the gland in a deep pocket) : Pleasant Valley, 

 Eldorado Co., Purdy; White Rock, Mariposa Co., ace. Purdy. 



Ref. — Calochortus clavatus Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 14:26.5 (1879), type loc. San Luis 

 Obispo, Lcmmon. 



12. C. concolor Purdy. Golden -bowl M.\ripos.\. (Fig. 53f, g.) Stem 2 

 feet high, one to several-flowered ; bulb large, reddisli ; pedicels stout, 1 to 3 

 (or 5) inches long; sepals yellowisli within, purple banded, purplish-brown on 

 the back ; petals deep rich j'ellow tending toward orange, generally with a pur- 

 plish band just above the lower third of the petal, broadly fan-shaped, IV2 to 2 

 inches long and as broad as long, slightly rounded at summit, the lower tliird or 

 fourtli thickly hairy with long erect yellow hairs; gland small, rounded olilong, 

 covered by a deeply laciniate annular membrane, the linear divisions of the 

 mendjrane converging in the center over the gland like an iris diaphragm ; sur- 

 face of tlie gland thickly covered with nan-owly linear mostly entire hairs ; anthers 

 yellow, linear, slightly exceeding the filaments; capsule strongly triquetrous, 

 lance-linear, attenuate above. 



Bushy often rocky hills, cismontane Southern California from San Diego Co. 

 north to San Bernardino. 



Loes.— Crafton, ace. Parish; Chalk Hill, Mt. San Jacinto, Hall 2285; El Toro Mt., 

 Hall; Santa Isabel Creek, Stephens; San Vicente Rancho, Ramona, K. Brandegee; Cuyamaca 

 Mts., ace, Purdy. 



Refs. — Calochortus concolor Purdy, Proc. Cal. Acad. ser. 3, 2:135 (1901), type loc. 

 Laguna, San Diego Co., D. Cleveland. C. luteus var. concolor Baker, Garden, 48:440. pi. 1043 

 (1895) ; the colored plate is a very fine one. 



13. C. kennedyi Porter. (Fig. 53h-.i.) Stem rather .stout, 2 to 6 (rarely 8 

 to 14) inches high, 2 to 4-flowered ; flowei's in umbels; pedicels 1 to 4 inches long; 

 sepals y2 to % the length of the petals, vermilion or orange inside, often spotted 

 with brown near the base, brownish without, with white-scar ious margins ; petals 



