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small purple spot; anthers linear-oblong, obtuse, blue; style short, distinct. 

 — High plains, Santa Cruz, &c. Scape 6\ Flower V long. April. Clearly 

 distinct. 



C. NiTiDus Dougl. Radical leaf lance-linear, much larger than the ferr cau- 

 line, all long-pointed ; flowers 3 — 4, orange-yellow, pedicels elongated ; sepals 

 elliptic, acute ; petals same length, roundish, bearded all over inside with cla- 

 vate hairs; anthers short, acuminate; capsule oval, wingless, drooping. — Yuba 

 and Tuolumne Counties. 6—8'. Leaf 1 f. Flowers brilliant, 15'^ broad. 

 May. 



/?. cornufus. Sepalis longe acurainatis, coroUam excedentibus. Flore unica; 

 fol. anguste lineari.— Dutch Flat. 4—6'. Fl. 1' lato. 



** Stem leafy, erect, branched, rigid. Perianth large, broad-campanu- 

 late, the petals recurved-spreading above the middle, spotted (except 

 a Weedii). 



C. VENUSTCS Benth. Branches few, 1-flowered ; leaves few, narrowly linear; 

 sepals lanceolate, acuminate, greenish outside, a purple eye bordered with 

 yellow inside ; petals many times larger, flabelliform, straw-white, variegated, 

 a tuft of hairs below, a purple crescent bordered with yellow near the middle; 

 stamens one-third as long as petals, anthers longer than filament; pod lance- 

 oblong. — Plains and foot hills, California. U- — 2 f. Flowers 2i inches broad. 

 This splendid flower (with the next two) has long been known to the native 

 Californians by the name of Mariposa (Spanish for butterfly). 



C. SPLENDENS Beuth. ? Stem stout, 3 — 5-flowered ; leaves narrowly linear ; 

 sepals lanceolate, acuminate, revolute, green, longer than the petals, a small 

 brown spot in the middle ; petals broad-obovate, rounded at apex, lilac, 

 sparsely bearded below, a brown-yellow eye in the middle ; anthers large, 

 longer than filament (6''), blue (Bentham). — Santa Clara, &c., not rare. 1 — 

 2 f. Flowers as large as in No. 7. Perhaps it runs into that species. May. 



C. MACROCARPUS Dougl. Bulb obloug ; stem 5-leaved, 2-flowered glaucous ; 

 leaves convolute, sheathing at base; pedicels enlarged upwards; sepals lance- 

 linear, longer than the petals, lilac, with a green line outside ; petals obovatc, 

 short acuminate, tapering to base, lilac or bluish-purple, greenish at base in- 

 side, and with a tuft of beard; anthers acuminate, as long as filament ; cap- 

 sule lance-oblong, very long (3 — 4'). — Dalles of the Columbia, &c., common. 

 August. 



' C. LUTECS Dougl. Stem about 3-flowered ; leaves convolute-acuminate, 

 shorter than the slender peduncles ; sepals oblong, pointed and recurved at 

 apex, scarcely shorter than the petals, yellow; petals yellow, broad-cuneate, 

 rounded at apex, bearded across the base, a roundish red spot near the middle ; 

 anthers as long as filament ; capsule elliptical. — Plains of Sacramento and 

 San Joachin. 1 — 2 f. Flowers smaller than in the foregoing, very brilliant. 

 May. 



C. Weedii (n. sp.) Caule subtrifloro ; foliis convolutis-filiformibus, jjedun- 

 culo divaricato multo brevioribus ; floribus aurantiacis-luteis, concoloribus ; 

 Sep. oblongis, acuminatis, petala excedentibus, basi barbatis ; pet. cuneato- 

 obovatis, intus omnino barbatis, ciliatis, basi barbis fasciculatis ; stam. fere 

 longitudine petalorum, anth. filamentis brevioribus; ovario lineari. — San Diego 

 (ligit Weed). Caulis gracilis, rigiiius, 1 — 2 ped. Flores maguitudine C. lutei ; 

 pet. 15 lin. Stam. et pistilla, 1 pol. April. Very distinct. 



C. NuTTALLii Torr. "Slem 2-flowered; leaves very narrowly linear; petals 

 obovatecuneate, rounded at summit, white except the yellow base, with an 

 oblong dense tuft of hairs on the claw, a purjile spot just above, and a few 

 scattered hairs. (C. liiteus Nutt ) Noble's Pass, Sierra Nevada, July 3." (P. 

 R. R. Rep. ii, 124.) V. s. in herb Torr* 



* The frequent references like the above, in these pages, indic^tte the extent of my ob- 

 ligations to that eminent botanist, Dr. John Torrey, of Columbia Coll., New York. 



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