262 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 
80. CALOCHORTUS, Pursh: 
* Inner perianth-segments (petals) strongly arched and broadly pitted, the 
gland usually with a transverse scale or fringe; outer segments (sepals) 
naked, rarely spotted: capsule more or less broadly elliptical, obtuse or 
acute, deeply triquetrous with thin acute or winged lobes, septicidal: seeds 
mostly brownish with close pitted testa: flowers or fruit more or less nod- 
ding, and stem usually lax. —§ EucaLycuorrus. 
: Flowers subglobose, nodding: stem usually tall and branching. 
1. C. atBus, Dougl. Stem 1 to 3 feet high: flowers white with 
purplish base: petals acutish, an inch long, bearded and ciliate: 
gland lunate, with four transverse imbricate fringed scales: capsule 
short-beaked, an inch or two long, half as wide. — Maund, Bot. t. 98; 
Baker, Journ. Linn. Soc. 14. 304. Oyclobothra alba, Benth. Trans. 
Hort. Soc. 1. 413, t. 14, £8; Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1661; Fl. Serres, 
t. 1171. ©. paniculata, Lindl. California (Los Angeles to Sonoma 
County and foothills of the Sierra Nevada). 
2. C. pULCHELLUS, Dougl. Stem usually a foot high or more: 
flowers yellow or orange: petals ciliate and bearded with glandular- 
tipped hairs, deeply pitted, the gland covered by the reflexed stiff 
hairs of its upper margin: anthers obtuse: capsule obtuse, an inch 
long or more. — Baker, 1. ¢. 303. Cyclobothra pulchella, Benth. 1. ¢., 
t.14,f.1; Lindl. 1l.c., t. 1662; Regel, Gartenfl. t. 802. California 
(Monterey to Mendocino County). 
« + Flowers campanulate, erect when open; pedicels becoming recurved : 
stem mostly low and flowers often subumbellate. 
++ Flowers yellow. 
3. C. Bentuami, Baker, 1. c. 304. Resembling the last: stem low 
and leaves narrow: flowers nearly erect: petals a half-inch long, 
mostly obtuse, often deep brown at base, with shallower pit: anthers 
acute: capsule 6 to 9 lines long. — Cyelobothra elegans, var. lutea, 
Benth. Pl. Hartw. 338. California (in the Sierra Nevada, Mariposa 
to Butte Counties). 
++ ++ Flowers white or light lilac. 
= Petals covered with hairs and mostly ciliate. 
4. C. Maweanus, Leichtlin. Low, usually branched; bracts an 
inch long or more: petals white, purplish at the broad base, 6 to 8 
lines long, somewhat pitted, the gland covered by a broad transverse 
semicircular scale: anthers lanceolate, acuminate: capsule oblong- 
elliptic, acutish.— ©. elegans of California, mainly; Hook. f. Bot. 
Mag. t. 5976; Baker, l. c. 305. California (Coast Ranges, from San 
Francisco to Humboldt County, and near Chico). 
