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cuneate, rather truncate, % to li/^ inches long, nearly as broad, flame-color, 

 brilliant vermilion or rarely orange, naked above, a few scattered hairs below, 

 sometimes with a black band or patch on the lower portion ; gland very small, 

 circular, bordered by a narrow black annular membrane with the inner ashy- 

 gray edge laciniate, its surface thickly covered with short slender hairs, the hairs 

 orange below, asliy above, once or twice dichotomously cleft ; anthers brownish- 

 purple ; capsule li/o to 2 inches long, 4 to 5 lines wide, attenuate above, the sides 

 liglit-colored but often bordered at the angles with a stripe of purplish-brown. 



Hard clay or gravelly soil: Mohave Desert west to Ventura Co., east to 

 southern Nevada and Arizona. Frequent. May. 



Locs. — Mt. PLqos, Hall; Cuddy CaSon, Kern Co., Hall; New York Mts., Jepson 5447; 

 Warreus Well, Jepson; Ord Mt., Jepson 5880; Stoddard's Well, Jepson 5906; Victorville, 

 Hall. 



Eefs. — Calochortus kennedyi Porter, Bot. Gaz. 2:79 (1877), type loc. Kern Co., W. L. 

 Kennedy. C. speciosus Jones, Contrib. W. Bot. 14:28 (1912). 



14. C. weedii Wood. Weed's Maeipos.v. (Fig. 54.) Stem 1 to 21,2 feet 

 high, usually much branched, stout and flexuous, leafy, 1 to many-flowered, not 

 bulbiferous ; sepals shorter than or often exceeding the petals, narrowly ovate- 

 lanceolate, yellowish within, searious-margined ; petals broadly cuneate, rounded 

 above, sometimes apiculate, orange-color to lemon yellow, nearly covered '\\'ith 

 long silky hairs each set in a small dark .spot, or the upper fourth or fifth naked; 

 upper margins of petals fringed or serrate ; gland small, circular, enclosed by 

 a dense ring of hairs and generally bearing a few scattered hairs on its surface ; 

 anthers oblong-linear, shorter or longer than the filaments; capsule narrowly 

 oval, attenuate above, li o inches long. 



Dry hills, San Diego Co. ; south to Lower California. June. Common on 

 the coast. Flowers 1 to I14 inches long. 



Loes. — Paloniar, Jepson 4' Hall; Capitan School, K. Brandegee; Laguna Mts., T. Bran4e- 

 gee ; Valley Center, Chandler 5440; San Diego, it. Brandegee; Del Mar, Jepson Hill; Rain- 

 bow, Parish 4458. 



Var. vestus Purdy. Petals truncatish, reddisli-bro^\Ti, covered with golden hairs, the upper 

 third with brown hairs, and the margin fringed with brown hairs; anthers oblong-lanceolate. — 

 Santa Barbara and Ventura cos.: Ojai Valley, Olive Thachcr. 



Eefs. — Calochortus weedii Wood, Proc. Acad. Phila. 20:169 (1868), type loc. San Diego, 

 Weed; Purdy, Proc. Cal. Acad. ser. 3, 2:132, pi. 17 (1901). Var. vestus Purdy I.e. 133, type 

 loc. Santa Barbara, Furdij. 



15. C. obispoensis Lemmon. Habit of C. weedii ; sej^als % to 14 longer 

 than the petnls : i>ctals ovate, acuminate, the tips generally black and fringed 

 with long black hairs; gland circular to oblong, enclosed by a dense ring of very 

 long orange hairs, the surface naked or bearing a very few scattered hairs; 

 anthers oblong, obtuse, shorter than the filaments; capsule linear, 1 to 11,4 inches 

 long. 



Caiions of the hills and mountains, San Luis Obispo Co. 



Locs. — Santa Lucia Mts., Summers; San Luis Obispo, Shoda Beed; Arroyo Grande, F. 

 Lowe. 



Eefs. — Calochortus obispoensis Lemmon, Bot. Gaz. 11:180 (1886), type loc. San Luis 

 Obispo, Lemmon'. C. weedii var. oiispooisis Purdy, Proc. Cal. Acad. ser. 3, 2:133 (1901). 



16. C. plummerae Greene. Hal)it of C. weedii ; corms large, often 2, enclosed 

 side by side in a dense fibrous coat; sepals lanceolate (wliite-scarious margined 

 at base), elongated attenuate, exceeding the petals; petals cuneate, apiculate or 

 rounded above, lilac or lilac-purple with orange-colored hairs on lower half, the 

 hairs usually arising from deep purple spots: gland small, circular, pocketed, 

 enclosed by a dense ring of long orange-colored hairs gathered together above 

 the gland, its surface naked or sometimes bearing one or few solitary hairs; 

 capsule narrowly linear, 1% to 314 inches long. 



