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



from these specimens. There is much difference in general 

 appearance between the species and var. nanus, and in my 

 opinion the variety will eventually follow the other forms 

 which were originally included under C. elegafis, and be 

 given specific rank. For the present, however, it is left 

 under the varietal name. No more definite locality than 

 western Idaho can be given for the type. 



Some Californian specimens have been referred to C. 

 elegans but the writer has never seen any which come under 

 the species and does not believe that either the type or any 

 of its variations are found in California. The Californian 

 plants referred to as C elegans are C. nudus. 



8a. C. elegans var. na^ms Wood. (Proc. Phil. Acad., 1868, p. 168.) 

 Dwarf and very slender, leaves very narrow; petals more hairy and ciliate, 

 often acute or even acuminate.— C lyallii Baker, Journ. Linn. Soc. (Bot.), 

 Vol. XIV, 1875, p. 305- 



"High hills, Yreka [California]. Also on Mt. Hood 

 [Oregon]." 



The description is that of Watson in the Botany of 

 California. 



The variety is known to the writer as it grows on Mt. 

 Hood and on Mt. Adams. Watson evidently had small 

 specimens, as under favorable conditions it is quite as 

 strong as any of the preceding. The color is a delicate 

 cream. 



y 9. Calochortus lobbii, sp. nov. 



Calochortiis elegans var. lobbii Baker, Journ. Linn. Soc. (Bot.), Vol. XIV, 

 1875. P- 305- 

 Stem 3 to 5 inches high, not so slender as the preceding; leaf a little exceed- 

 ing stem in length, 3 to 5 lines wide, lanceolate, abruptly acute; sepals ovate- 

 lanceolate, acute, greenish with a dark spot below, 6 to S lines long; petals a 

 little longer, white tinged with green, broadly rhombic-ovate, very deeply 

 pitted, the pit showing as a prominent knob on back of petal; scale very 

 narrow, deeply bordered with long, feathered, hairy fringes, and concealed in 

 the recess of pit; above the scale there is a nectar-producing gland covered 

 by a broad band of agglutinated feathered hairs, above this band lower half 

 of petal densely hairy with silky hairs, upper half less densely hairy; fila- 

 ments subulate; anthers oblong-acuminate, ending in a hook-like cusp; cap- 

 sule narrowly beaked. 



