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usual in the Coast Range forms, is rare. At all points from 

 which specimens of this form have been collected the variety 

 of color is shown to vary greatly in proportion ; sometimes 

 nineteen-twentieths of the flowers are white, again red or 

 purple will predominate, and this in localities only a few 

 miles apart; but no single color form is ever found to the 

 exclusion of all others. 



Group 7. Lilac Mariposas. 



Petals white, lilac, or purplish, not oculated, more or less hairy; gland 

 small, round, and densely hairy; leaves linear, channeled; capsules linear 

 except in C. catalince. 



31. Calochortus splendens Dougl. 



Calochortus splendens Dougl. ex Benth. in Trans. Hort. Soc, Ser. II, 

 Vol. I, 1835, p. 411, Tab. XV, fig. I. 



Stem slender, often bulbiferous at base, usually a foot or two high; sepals 

 often spotted purple, ovate-acuminate, about equalling petals; petals broadly 

 fan-shaped, circular above, 1-5 lines long, 18 lines broad, upper half naked, 

 scattering short hairs around the gland and on lower third, the claw very 

 short; color from lilac to purple, lighter about gland, usually reddish purple 

 on claw; gland small and round with a mound of matted agglutinated hairs 

 which are scarcely distinguishable as hairs, and are frequently absent; anthers 

 purple, obtuse, one-third as long as filaments; capsule linear. 



Described from strong plants from San Diego, California. 



In horticulture the type is known as C. splendens var. 

 atroviolacea. It is found from San Diego to Santa Barbara 

 counties, and on the coast islands. 



31a. C. splendens var. nwntamis, var. nov. Like the type but very slender, 

 8-12 inches high, smaller flowered, and more densely hairy about the gland 

 with short yellow hairs; color lilac to salmon pink; often bulbiferous. 



Described from specimens from Raynetta, San Jacinto 

 Mountains. 



316. C. splendens var. major, var. nov. This resembles var. montanus but 

 is not bulbiferous, is stouter and much larger flowered; petals pale lilac, 

 lighter below, with very long tangled hairs scattered on middle third. 



Described from specimens from Monterey County, Cali- 

 fornia. Found also in San Luis Obispo County. 



