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5. C. ceRuLEvs. Low, umbellately 2—5-flowered; pedicels very 
slender: bracts smaller: petals 6 or 7 lines long, lilac dotted and 
lined with blue, with narrower claw, and the gland covered by an 
appressed fringed scale: anthers oblong, obtuse: capsule orbicular or 
nearly so, obtuse, 6 lines long. — Cyclobothra elegans, var., Benth. Pl. 
Hartw. 338. C. cerulea, Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad. 2.4. C. glaucus, 
Regel, Act. Hort. Petrop. 3. 285? California (in the Sierra Nevada, 
Placer to Plumas Counties; Hartweg, n. 1988; etc.). 
6. C. ELEGANS, Pursh. Similar in habit: petals greenish white, 
purplish at base, bearded but not ciliate or only sparingly so, the 
lunate gland covered by a very narrow and deeply ‘fringed scale: 
anthers long-acuminate: capsule as in the last. — Dougl. Hort. Trans. 
7. 278, t. 9, f. B. Cyelobothra, Lindl. Oregon and Idaho. 
Var. NANUs, Wood. Subalpine, dwarf and very slender: petals 
narrow and often acute or acuminate, more hairy and ciliate. — Proc. 
Philad. Acad. 1868, 168. ©. Lyallii, Baker, 1. ¢. 305. Siskiyou 
Mountains, California; Mount Hood, Oregon, and northward to 
British Columbia. 
7. C. Totmrer, Hook. & Arn. Stouter and taller (a foot high), 
usually branched: petals 9 to 15 lines long, tinged or marked with 
lilac, covered and fringed with purple and white hairs; gland with- 
out scale, bordered above by a dense fringe of reflexed hairs: anthers 
lanceolate, acuminate, 2 or 3 lines long: capsule broadly elliptic, 
acutish at each end, 10 to 15 lines long. — Bot. Beechey, 398. @C. 
elegans, var., Baker, 1. c. 8305. Oregon to base of Mount Shasta. 
8. C. aprcuLAtTus, Baker, ]. c. 505. A similar species, but still 
taller and stouter, with an umbel of larger straw-colored flowers. — 
Northern Idaho. 
= = Petals hairy only toward the base or wholly naked. 
9. C. nupus. Low: leaf solitary, 3 to 10 lines broad: bracts small 
(rarely an inch long): flowers 1 to 6, in a single umbel: petals 4 to 
10 lines long, white or pale lilac, without hairs, denticulate; gland 
with a broad transverse appressed scale: anthers linear-oblong (2 or 3 
lines long), obtuse: capsule oblong, acute at each end, 8 or 10 lines 
long: seeds yellowish, papillose, with a white vesicle at base. — 
C. elegans, var. subcalvatus, Baker, 1. c. 305. California (in the Sierra 
Nevada, Yosemite Valley to Plumas County; n. 1986, Hartweg). 
10. C. ritacinus, Kellogg. Stem bulbiferous near the base, with 
broad leaves and long conspicuous bracts: flowers 4 to 10, on long 
pedicels in 1 to 3 umbels, or subumbellate: petals pale lilac with 
