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The figure shown in Douglas' plate is that of the form 

 here described as the type. Baker, in his Tulipae, gives an 

 accurate description of this same form, calling it Calochortus 

 sflendens; but Watson, in the "Botany of California," has 

 described as the type the form here given as var. major. 

 The marked difference between these two forms is in the 

 hairs. In the type the hairs are short and found on the lower 

 third of the petal; in var. major they are on the middle 

 third of the petal, and are long and cobwebby. In addition 

 to this, the latter variety is of a stronger habit, has larger, 

 lighter colored flowers, and is without bulblets. 



3 If. C. splendens var. rubra, a form found in eastern Lake and Napa 

 counties, is singularly enough in gland and hairs almost exactly like the 

 type at the other extremity of the range. It is a very large plant, with a 

 deep-seated yellow bulb, tall (1-3 feet), stout stem, and a large reddish lilac, 

 pink or purplish flower, the petals quite hairy with short hairs on lower 

 third, and with a deep reddish purple claw. 



C. splendens var. montanus has been mistaken for C . fal- 

 meri, but it is closely related to the type ; in fact, aside from 

 the color of the hairs above the gland, and the more slender 

 habit, it hardly differs from the type except in its habitat. 

 The writer has it from "cienagas" (wet springy spots) near 

 Tehachapi, from wet spots near Bear Valley (San Bernar- 

 dino County), and from wet meadows in the San Jacinto 

 Mountains. The other three forms always grow in dry, 

 rocky soil. 



32. Calochortus palmeri Watson. 



Calochortus palmeriV\I XTSO^y Proc. Amer. Acad., Vol. XIV, 1879, p. 266. 



Stem very slender, lax and flexuous, a foot or two high, 1-7-flowered, 

 bulbiferous near the base; sepals with narrowly acuminate recurved tips, 

 spotted; petals 6-12 lines long, white (or yellowish below) with a brownish 

 claw, and with scattered hairs around the ill-defined, broad, densely hairy 

 gland; anthers obtuse, 3 lines long, capsule very narrow, an inch long or 

 more. 



"California, near the Mojave River." 



The above description and locaHty are quoted from the 

 original of Watson. 



