300 LILIACEAE 



(rare southwards) ; Sierra Nevada from Butte Co. southwards. May. Called 

 Snow-drops iu Tuolumne and Calavei-as cos., Indian Bells in Calaveras Co., and 

 Satin Bell in the Coast Ranges. 



Locs. — South Coast Ranges: Burlingame, M. S. Balcer; Niles; Los Gatos, Heller. Southern 

 California: Ojai Valley, Olii'e Thaclter; Little Santa Anita Cafion, San Gabriel Mts., Peirson 

 2163; Fish Caiion, San Gabriel Mts., Peirson; Claremont, ace. /. M. Johnston; Palomar, Hall 

 1937; Cuyamaca Mts., Parish 4422 (some petals ivith fringed margin like C. pulchellus) ; Santa 

 Cruz. Isl., usually pale rose (Zoe, 2:78) ; Santa Rosa Isl., T. Brandegee. Sierra Nevada (plants 

 somewliat smaller and the flowers apparently differing a little from the Coast Range form: 

 Gwin Mine, Calaveras Co., Jepson 1773; Columbia, Jepson 6295. 



Var. rubellus Greene. (Fig. 56c.) Generally lower and more slender; flowers rose-pink; 

 gland scarcely arched, from the outside resembling a blood-blister. — Southern Sierra Nevada 

 and the Santa Lucia and Santa Cniz mountains. June. Passes into the species. 



IjOcs. — Samson Flats, Fresno Co., Neivhall ; Sand Creek, Harriet KeUeji ; Dunlap, Jepson 

 2768; Limekiln Creek. Jepson; Old Colony Mill, Sequoia Park, Jepson 642; Nelson, Middle 

 Tule River, Jepson 4866; Lucia, Monterey Co., Hall; Ben Lomond (Zoe, 2:79). 



Refs. — C-iLOCHORTus .iLBus Dougl. ; Benth. Trans. Hort. Soc. Lond. ser. 2, 1:413, pi. 14, 

 fig. 3 (1835), type from Cal., DougUu-; Wood, Proc. Phila. Acad. 20:168 (1868) ; Jepson, FI. W. 

 Mid. Cal. 113 (1901); McB. Oontrib. Gray Herb. 66:12 (1918). Cyclohothra alba Benth. I.e.; 

 Lindl. Bot. Reg. t, 1661 (1835). Var. rubellus Greene, Erythea, 1:152 (1893), type loc. 

 Pacific Grove, Tidestrom. Var. amoenu.^ Purdy; Bailey, Stand. Cyclop. Hort. 2:632 (1914). 

 C. amoenus Greene, Pitt. 2:71 (1890), type loc. Sierra Nevada east of Visalia, Patterson. 



19. C. monophyllus Jepson. Yellow Star Tulip. (Fig. 56d-g.) Stem 

 flexuous. branching, '.i to 8 inches high ; basal leaf 9 to 12 inches high, 3 to 4 lines 

 wide ; bracts linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 2 to 4 lines wide ; sepals narrowly 

 ovate, acuminate, mucronate, about eciualing petals ; sepals and petals yellow 

 or more or less purplish brown ; petals obovate ; gland semicircular, borne in a 

 shallow pocket (appearing on the outside as a ridge) covered from below by a 

 narrow laciniate scale, and densely bordered or crested above with short yellow 

 (or the innermost white) hairs; hairs and laciniae of gland papillate; claw below 

 the scale naked, often glandular, sometimes red-brown ; capsule orbicular, 6 to 9 

 lines long. 



Lower Yellow Pine belt of the Sierra Nevada from Shasta Co. to Tuolumne 

 Co. Frequent. Apr. Petals 5 to 8 (or 9) lines long. 



Locs. — Reed Road, Shasta Co., M. S. Baler; Brush Creek, Butte Co., K. Conger; Rough 

 and Ready, Nevada Co., Jepson; Camino, El Dorado Co., K. Brandegee; Italian Bar, Tuolumne 

 Co., A. L. Grant. 



Refs. — C.\JX3CH0RTiis monophyTjLUS Jepson, Madrono, 1:61 (1017). Cyclohothra mono- 

 phylla Lindl. Jour. Hort. Soe. Lond. 4:81 (1849), type loc. Bear Valley, Nevada Co., Hartxceg 

 371. C. elegans var. lutea Benth. PI. Hartw. 338 (1857), type loc. Bear Valley, Nevada Co., 

 Hartweg 371. Calochortas bentliamii Baker, Jour. Linn. Soc. Bot. 14:304 (1874). 



20. C. caeruleus Wats. Be.wertail Gr.vss. Stems short (1 to 7 inches high), 

 the basal leaf 1 to 3 times as long; flowers 2 to 4 (or 10) in umbels; pedicels verj' 

 slender; bracts small; petals rhombic-ovate, Si^ to 6 (or 7) lines long, white or 

 pale blue, lilac-dotted and lined with blue, hairy, the margin fringed ; gland 

 narrow, transverse, curved, shallow, covered by an appressed somewliat fringed 

 scale and crested by a row of short scales; these latter scales narrow, often hair- 

 like, frequently laciniate or incised ; capsule orbicular or nearly so, obtuse, 6 

 lines long. 



Open w-oods, middle altitudes of the Sierra Nevada from El Dorado Co. to 

 Shasta Co., and in the high North Coast Ranges from northern Lake Co. to 

 Siskiyou Co. June. 



Variation in gland: The narrow transverse gland is somewhat curved or lunate (Armstrong 

 Sta., El Dorado Co., Han.'!en 1071; Blue Canon, Placer Co., H. J. Waller; Nelson Pt., Plmnas 

 Co., Hall 9395; Marble Mt., Chandler 1646; Trinity Summit, Jepson 2035), rarely straight 

 (Marble Mt., Jepson 2824), and varies in breadth from % to % the mdth of the petal at 

 the plac« of the gland in the specimens cited, even in tlie same lot of specimens (Marble Mt., 

 Jepson 2824). These results do not sustain C. nanu.s Piper as distinct from C. caeruleus. 

 C. caeruleus is most commonly found between 4000 and 7500 feet but occurs in typical form 



