296 LILJACEAE 



Contra Costa and Monterey cos. southward to San Diego Co. Common on 

 half-open or bushy hills or mesas. May. Petals 1% to 1% inches long. 



Locs. Mt. Diablo, Jepson 8326; Carmel River Valley, Ferguson 253; Waltham Creek, San 

 Carlos Range, Jepson 2659; Atascadero, Brewer 507; Cajon Pass, Jepson 6099; e. San Bernar- 

 dino Valley, Jepson 5544; Riverside, Jepson 1228; San Timoteo Canon, Jepson 6081; San 

 Jaeinto Canon, Hall 2014; Santa Ana Mts., Alice King; San Diego, T. Brandegee. 



Ref. CALOCHORTUS SPLENDENS Dougl. ; Benth. Trans. Hort. Soe. Lond. ser. 2, 1:411, 

 pi. 15, fig. 1 (1835), type from Cal., Douglas. 



8. C. invenustus Greene. (Fig. 52d-f.) More slender and shorter than 'C. 

 splendens ; stems 8 to 12 inches high, bulblet-bearing at the base ; petals smaller, 

 the scattered hairs short; gland irregular, spreading, fan-shaped; gland hairs 

 cylindrical or subclavate with knobbed sides, not expanded stellate. 



Moist spots, plateau valleys in the mountains bordering on the west the desert 

 region of Southern California, 4000 to 6500 feet ; somewhat rare. May. 



Locs. Vandeventer, Jepson 1462 ; San Jaeinto Mts., Reirihardt ; Rock Creek, Pcirson 9 ; 

 Leonis Valley, Davy 2608; Tehaehapi, Greene. 



Refs. CALOCHORTUS INVENUSTUS Greene, Pitt. 2:71 (1890), type loe. Tehaehapi, Greene. 

 C. splendens var. montanus Purdy, Proc. Cal. Acad. ser. 3, 2:143 (1901), type loc. Raynetta, 

 Mt. San Jaeinto. C. invenustus var. montanus Parish, Bull. S. Cal. Aead. 1:124 (1902). C. 

 montanus Davidson, Bull. S. Cal. Acad. 9:54 (1910). 



9. C. nuttallii Torr. SEGO LILY. (Fig. 52g-j.) Stem 3 to 17 inches high, 

 bulblet-bearing at base ; basal leaf shorter than the stem or sometimes equaling 

 it in dwarf forms ; flowers solitary or in umbels ; bracts with white-scarious mar- 

 gins; sepals shorter than the petals; petals cuneate-obovate, apiculate, slightly 

 erose, 1 to 1% inches long, white, sometimes shaded with lilac or with purple, 

 often a darker purple spot near the gland, a few long linear hairs about the 

 gland ; gland oval, rarely circular, bordered by a more or less continuous lacin- 

 iated membrane and covered with hairs more or less laciniate at the tips ; anthers 

 yellow, oblong-linear, obscurely sagittate at base, commonly tortuous after de- 

 hiscence, slightly longer than the filaments ; capsule linear, 2 to 2 l /2 inches long, 

 attenuate at both ends. 



Arid mountains or valleys, 4000 to 10,000 feet; east slope of the Sierra 

 Nevada and south to the high ranges bordering the deserts in Southern California ; 

 east to the Rocky Mts. 



Locs. Honey Lake, T. Brandegee; Volcano Creek, Tulare Co., Hall # Baboock 5426; 

 Mt. Pinos, Hall 6506. The Owens Valley plants have purplish maroon anthers ( C. excavatus 

 Greene): White Mts., Jepson 7247; Bishop, Almeda NordyTce. The following from Southern 

 California are more slender but agree technically with the species: Lytle Creek Canon, Mt. 

 San Antonio, Hall 1452; Bear Valley, San Bernardino Mts., Parish 3159; Santa Ana Canon, 

 Hall 7655; Mt. San Jaeinto, Jepson 2321. The following are extra-limital : Verdi, Washoe 

 Co., Nev., Sonne; Mangas Sprs., N. M., 0. B. Metcalfe; Indian Creek, Carbon Co., Wyo., 

 Goodding; Malheur River, e. Ore., CusicTc 2544. 



Refs. CALOCHORTUS NUTTALLII Torr. in Stansbury Expl. Utah, 397 (1852), type loc. Salt 

 Lake Valley, Utah, Stansbury; Purdy, Proc. Cal. Aead. ser. 3, 2:146 (1901) in part. C. 

 leichtlinii of many authors as to Great Basin or Rocky Mt. plants. C. excavatus Greene, 

 Pitt. 2:71 (1890), type loc. Bishop Creek, Inyo Co., Shocldey 427. C. discolor Davidson, Bull. 

 S. Cal. Acad. 14:11 (1915), type loe. Bishop, Davidson 2672. C. campestris Davidson, Bull. 

 S. Cal. Acad. 14:12 (1915), type loc. Bishop, Davidson 2657. Petals pink; gland circular. 

 Ex. char. C. acuminatus Rydb. Bull. Torr. Club 24:189, pi. 301 (1897), type loc. Lima, 

 Montana, seems close to C. nuttallii but has narrower more acuminate petals. 



10. C. macrocarpus Dougl. (Fig. 53a, b.) Stem bulbiferous at base, stout, 

 erect, 1 to 2 feet high ; cauline leaves 3 to 5, narrow and convolute ; sepals long- 

 lanceolate, stiffly spreading, purple inside, equaling or slightly exceeding the 

 petals; petals persistent until capsule has reached almost mature size, long obo- 

 vate, prominently apiculate, 1% to 2 1 / 4 inches long and % inch wide, purple- 

 lilac, lighter at base and sometimes with a deeper band below middle, a greenish 

 median line on the back, the lower third of petal white and with scattered hairs 



