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sent me the plant as being of an undescribeel specks. It is 

 widely different from C. splendens in many points, among 

 which the most notable are the erect (not recurved) sepals, 

 the densely yellow-hairy petals, the long stamens and pistil, 

 and, to tlie observer of the living plant, the tulip-lihe shape 

 of the whole flower, i. e., broad at the base. 



Calochortus invenustus. Near C. sjyhiidcns, but sepals 

 not recurved, oblong-lanceolate with a narrow scarious margin: 

 petals cuneate-obovate, of a dull somewhat greenish or livid 

 white, glabrous except a few scattered white hairs near the 

 base, the short claw and the small lanceolate curly-hairy 

 gland purple : filaments shorter than the anthers, these 

 obloug-liuear, truncate at apex, slightly sagittate at base. 



A homely species of the higher mountains to the westward 

 of the Mohave Desert, where it was collected by the wi'iter, 

 Juue 25, 1889. But for tlie very different character of its 

 gland it might pass tor a smaller flowered C. GimnisonL 



Calochortus excavatus. Resembling the last, but the 



bracts ovate-lauceolate, scarious almost to the striate-veined 

 middle portion, their acuminate tips recurred : petals white 

 shaded with lurid purple above, but dark puiple below and 

 about the broad obovate hairy gland wliich is deeply "" 

 Pi-essed, apoearing like a yellow saccate body on the outside 

 of the petal : stamens as in the last, but anthers dark maroon. 

 From Bishop Creek, Iiiyo County, California, collected by 

 ^i'. ^Y. H. Shockley (No. 427). 



Calochortus (Cyclobothra) am(ENUS. yenr C. pnJchcIhs, 



of the same size and habit, petals more elongated, the ciliatiou 

 longer, more lax and scarcely carried above the middle ot tne 

 '^rgan, the whole flower of a deep red-pnrple. 



^ly only specimens of this distinct and most bf^-^^^tifl^^ 

 species were sent from the mountains east of \isalia, ua 

 fornia, in 1886, by Dr. T. J. Patterson. I had put them aside 

 foi- future study without having noticed the shape ot tne 



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