294 LHJACEAE 



3. C. palmeri Wats. (Fig. 51a.) Stems 4 to 12 inches high, slightly 

 branched, not bulbiferous at base; sepals purplish-striated, oblong, acuminate, 

 the tip recurving; petals broadly cuneate, rounded at apex, sometimes apiculate, 

 purple, purple-striated, reddish-brown about the gland, sparsely white-hairy ex- 

 cept on upper part ; gland oval to oblong, densely tufted ; hairs a little 4-sided, 

 and narrowly winged at the angles ; anthers oblong, obtuse. 



Local in moist alkaline spots: borders of the Mohave Desert near the bases 

 of the San Gabriel and San Bernardino mountains. May. 



Locs. Twenty-nine Palms, T, Brandegee; Kabbit Springs, Jepson 5940; Lancaster, K. 

 Brandegee. 



Var. paludicolus Jepson & Ames n. comb. Sepals yellowish inside with conspicuous oblong 

 brown spots; petals rose to pale pink. Meadows, Bear Valley, San Bernardino Mts., 6500 feet. 



Var. dunnii Jepson & Ames n. comb. Stems 1 to 2 feet high; sepals with white-scarious 

 margins, sometimes with a black or reddish-brown blotch near the base; petals white with a 

 brown transverse band crowning the gland. Local in the interior arid mountains of San Diego 

 Co.: Julian, ace. Purdy; Descanso, T. Brandegee. 



Eefs. CALOCHORTUS PALMERI Wats. Proe. Am. Acad. 14:2fi6 (1879), type coll. by Palmer 

 (no. 527) at the head of the Mohave River, probably at Los Flores Rancho ace. Parish, Bull. 

 S. Cal. Acad. 1:122 (1902). C. striatus Parish, I.e. type loc. Rabbit Sprs., Mohave Desert, 

 Parish. Var. PALUDICOLUS Jepson & Ames. C. paludicola Davidson, Bull. S. Cal. Acad. 9:53 

 (1910), type loc. Bear Valley, San Bernardino Mts., Davidson 2171. Var. DUNNII Jepson & 

 Ames. C. dunnii Purdy, Proc. Cal. Acad. ser. 3, 2:147 (1901), type loe. Julian, San Diego 

 Co., G. W. Dunn. 



4. C. leichtlinii Hook. (Fig. 51b-d.) Stem erect, varying from 2 inches 

 to nearly 2 feet high, with an oblong bulblet at the base ; basal leaf narrowly 

 linear, exceeding the stem only in dwarf plants ; sepals smoky blue outside, inside 

 yellowish, scarious margined, shorter than the petals; petals obovate-cuneate, 

 rounded at the summit, white (or less commonly purplish) with yellow base and 

 a smoky blue or inky spot above the gland ; gland small, oval, thickly covered 

 with yellow linear hairs and with some loose hairs immediately around the gland ; 

 anthers oblong, obtuse, slightly sagittate or after dehiscence strongly so. 



Common in the Sierra Nevada from Shasta Co. south to Tulare Co., 5000 to 

 7500 feet. June-July. Petals % to li/4 inches long. 



Tax. Note. This species is distinguished from the genuine C. nuttallii Torr. of the Great 

 Basin region by the absence of any membrane surrounding the gland, by the uniformly linear 

 hairs on the surface of the gland, which are never laciniate tipped, by the thinner-walled more 

 ovoid capsule, and by the sagittate anthers. After dehiscence the 4 anther valves spread from 

 the base in pairs (one valve from each cell) and the anthers become strongly sagittate. 



Locs. Pine Creek, Lassen Co., Baker $ Nutting; Mill Creek Cafion, Tehama Co., Hall $ 

 Barcode 4355; Jameson Creek, Plumas Co., Hall 9311; Webber Lake, Sierra Co., S. B. Doten; 

 Donner Lake, Sonne; Sonora Pass, A. L. Grant; Belle Mdw., Tuolumne Co., Jepson 6471; 

 Yosemite, Jepson 4251; Lake Merced, Jepson 3212; Huntington Lake, Fresno Co., A. L. Grant; 

 Long Mdw., Tulare Co., Jepson 734. 



Refs. CALOCHORTUS LEICHTLINII Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 5862 (1870), type loc. Siexra Nevada, 

 Eoezl; Purdy, Proc. Cal. Acad. ser. 3, 2:148 (1901). C. nuttallii T. & G. Pac. R. Rep. 2:124 

 (1855), type loc. Noble Pass, Shasta Co., Snyder (not C. nuttallii Torr.). Var. subalpinus 

 Jones, Contrib. 12:78 (1908), the form of high altitudes (not C. subalpinus Piper, 1906). 



5. C. luteus Dougl. YELLOW MABEPOSA. (Fig. 51e.) Stem erect, slender, 

 often branching, y 2 to 1 or 2 feet high; bulblets enclosed within radical sheath 

 of stem; basal leaves linear, 1 to 3 lines wide; sepals yellowish within; petals 

 fan-shaped, as long as broad, % to 2 inches long, yellow or orange, rarely white, 

 with or usually without a central brown blotch but with horizontal series of 

 vertical pencilings radiating from gland to center of petal; gland transverse, 

 broadly linear or lunate, usually not reaching quite to edges of petal, densely 

 hairy, with ascending matted yellow hairs ; hairs below middle of petal few and 

 scattering; capsule linear-oblong, iy to 1% inches long. 



Foothills and low rolling gravelly or dry land : Coast Ranges from Mendocino 

 Co. south to San Luis Obispo Co. ; borders of the Sacramento and San Joaquin 



