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Grows in the Yellow-Pine belt, Butte County, California. 



\/ 6b. C. maweanus var. rosetis, var. nov. The flowers of var. roseus are 

 tinged with rose; the bulb is distinctive, having a smooth, mahogany-colored 

 coat. 



Its habitat is western Oregon. 



7. Calochortus caeruleus Watson. 



Calochortus cczruleus Watson, Proc. Amer. Acad., Vol. XIV, 1879, p. 263. 



In general resembling a small specimen of C. maweanus. The plants are 

 very slender; leaves and bracts narrower, pedicels more slender; flowers 

 almost always in an umbel, petals more rhombic in outline, claw more slen- 

 der, scale broader and fringed, the remainder of petal densely covered with 

 long slender silky hairs; anthers oblong-obtuse; capsule orbicular, not 

 beaked, 6 lines long. 



Specimens of this species show but little variation. 

 "California (in the Sierra Nevada, Placer to Plumas 

 counties)." 



8. Calochortus elegans Piirsh. 



Calochortus elegans Pursh, F1. Am. Sept., Vol. I., 1816, p. 240. 



Scape very slender, 4-8 inches high; leaves lanceolate-acuminate, nar- 

 row, exceeding scape; flowers one to four in umbel, bracts one-half length of 

 pedicels, acuminate from a base 2 lines wide; sepals ovate-acute, greenish 

 white without, lighter within, purplish at base; sepals obovate-obtuse, whitish 

 or tinged slightly with green, with purple spot on claw, covered thickly with 

 rather short soft hairs, which are white on upper and purple on lower por- 

 tion, excepting that the margin and a band around upper portion of petal is 

 naked; scale narrow, ascending, and deeply fringed, covering about one-third 

 the width of claw; anthers long, acuminate; capsule elliptical, rounded at 

 each end. 



The type specimens were collected by the Lewis and 

 Clark expedition on the headwaters of the Kooskoosky in 

 Idaho (?). 



The writer was never able to obtain specimens of this 

 species until just as the present paper was going to press, 

 when flowers which are unquestionably the true C. elegans 

 were received from a collector in western Idaho, near 

 Spokane. As the original description of the species is very 

 brief, the fuller description, as given above, was drawn 



