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Il8 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. [Proc. 3D Ser. 



2. Calochortus amcenus Greene. 



Calochortus amoenus Greene, Pittonia, Vol. II, 1890, p. 71. 



Similar to C. albus, but lower and more slender; petals a rosy pink with the 

 gland rose-purple, scarcely at all arched, and opening in full bloom. 



Found in the higher foot-hill region of Fresno and Tulare 

 counties, California, 



" Mountains east of Visalia, California." 



3. Calochortus pulchellus Dougl. 



Calochortus pulchellus Douglas in Utt. 



Cyclobothra pulchella Bentham, Trans. Hort. Soc, N. S., Vol. I, 1835, p. 

 415, PI. XIV, fig. i; Bot. Register, Vol. XX, 1835, Tab. 1662. 



Stem stout, glaucous, usually branching, 8 to 16 inches high; radical leaves 

 a foot long, 6 to 12 lines wide, lanceolate-acuminate; bracts large and folia- 

 ceous, 2 to 3 inches long on the same plant, 4 to 6 lines wide; sepals shorter 

 than petals, ovate-acuminate, yellow tinged with brown on the back; petals 

 canary-yellow, ovate with the base cuneate, obtuse at apex, 9-12 lines long, 

 with scattering long silky hairs above the gland, and bordered with short stiff 

 hairs; gland deep, protruding outwardly, bordered with stiff hairs which 

 cross each other; anthers oblong-obtuse; ovary elliptical to elliptical-orbic- 

 ular, abruptly short-beaked. 



The original specimens of this species were collected by 

 Douglas prior to 1835. The exact locality is not given; 

 but the only place in which the species has since been 

 found is in the Mount Diablo region, a section which was 

 easily accessible at the time of Douglas' visit to California, 

 and often visited by his Mexican-Californian hosts. 



Although in a region much visited by botanists since 

 then, no specimens were to be found in any of the herba- 

 riums of this State up to the year 1897, when C. j^ulchellus 

 was collected by Miss Alice Eastwood of the California 

 Academy of Sciences. 



The very name Calochortus ftilchellus had been appropri- 

 ated by another yellow-flowered species of the same group, 

 which is described and named below as C. amabilis, and 

 which is clearly a distinct species. 



Following are the original descriptions of the species 

 copied from the Botanical Register: — 



