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above the gland ; gland broadly A-shaped or oval with a notch on the lower side, 

 bordered by a continuous doubly laciniate membrane and densely covered with 

 broad hairs whose divided clavate tips form a compact mass; anthers purple or 

 yellow, ovate-lanceolate, acutish, 4 to 7 lines long; capsule attenuate, iy 2 to 21/4 

 inches long ; seeds round, flat, 2*4 lines in diameter. 



Dry sandy soil in the interior: Lassen and Modoc cos. North to British 

 Columbia. 



Loes. Susanville, T. Brdndegee; Eagle Lake, M. S. Baker; Mt. Bidwell, Jepson 7857. 



Bef. CALOCHORTUS MACROCARPUS Dongl. Trans. Hort. Soc. Lond. 7:276, pi. 8 (1830), 

 type loc. near the Great Falls of the Columbia Eiver, Douglas. 



11. C. clavatus Wats. (Fig. 53c-e.) Stem very stout, stiff, strongly zigzag, 

 branching, 1 to 3 feet high ; cauline leaves broad ; pedicels stout, 2 to 5 inches 

 long ; flowers bowl-shaped ; sepals yellowish within, often purplish spotted, green- 

 ish without, with dry scarious margins; petals rieh yellow, broadly fan-shaped, 

 rather truncate, l l / 2 to 2 inches long, iy 2 to 214 inches wide, strongly arched, 

 hairy below the middle or only near the gland, often with a narrow reddish 

 brown or lilac band above the hairy zone, the claw often reddish brown ; hairs 

 of the petals scattered, yellow, purplish red at base, the tips narrowly clavate; 

 gland circular, bordered by an annular membrane, its inner edge deeply twice 

 incised ; gland surface thickly covered with very broad hairs with much divided 

 or coralline tips; anthers ovate-oblong, obtuse, purplish brown, shorter than the 

 slender filaments ; capsule linear, attenuate above and below, 3 inches long. 



Dry rocky points, usually in volcanic soils: South Coast Ranges (San Benito 

 Co. to Los Angeles), infrequent; rare in the central Sierra Nevada. May. 



Locs. Coast Eanges (sepals % the length of the petals and gland in a shallow pocket) : 

 San Carlos Creek, Jepson 2730; Arroyo Grande, Alice King; Ojai Valley, Olive Thacher; San 

 Fernando, comm. by Elizabeth Palmer; Mint Canon, San Gabriel Mts., Peirson 288. Sierra 

 Nevada (sepals equal to or exceeding the petals, the gland in a deep pocket) : Pleasant Valley, 

 Eldorado Co., Purdy; White Rock, Mariposa Co., ace. Purdy. 



Eef. CALOCHORTUS CLAVATUS Wats. Proc. Am. Aead. 14:265 (1879), type loc. San Luis 

 Obispo, Lemmon. 



12. C. concolor Purdy. GOLDEN-BOWL MARIPOSA. (Fig. 53f, g.) Stem 2 

 feet high, one to several-flowered; bulb large, reddish; pedicels stout, 1 to 3 

 (or 5) inches long; sepals yellowish within, purple banded, purplish-brown on 

 the back ; petals deep rich yellow tending toward orange, generally with a pur- 

 plish band just above the lower third of the petal, broadly fan-shaped, iy 2 to 2 

 inches long and as broad as long, slightly rounded at summit, the lower third or 

 fourth thickly hairy with long erect yellow hairs; gland small, rounded oblong, 

 covered by a deeply laciniate annular membrane, the linear divisions of the 

 membrane converging in the center over the gland like an iris diaphragm ; sur- 

 face of the gland thickly covered with narrowly linear mostly entire hairs ; anthers 

 yellow, linear, slightly exceeding the filaments ; capsule strongly triquetrous, 

 lance-linear, attenuate above. 



Bushy often rocky hills, cismontane Southern California from San Diego Co. 

 north to San Bernardino. 



Locs. Crafton, ace. Parish; Chalk Hill, Mt. San Jacinto, Hall 2285; El Toro Mt, 

 Hall; Santa Isabel Creek, Stephens; San Vicente Eancho, Eamona, K. Brandegee; Cuyamaca 

 Mts., ace. Purdy. 



Eefs. CALOCHORTUS CONCOLOR Purdy, Proe. Cal. Acad. ser. 3, 2:135 (1901), type loc. 

 Laguna, San Diego Co., D. Cleveland. C. luteus var. concolor Baker, Garden, 48:440. pi. 1043 

 (1895) ; the colored plate is a very fine one. 



13. C. kennedyi Porter. (Fig. 53h-j.) Stem rather stout, 2 to 6 (rarely 8 

 to 14) inches high, 2 to 4-flowered; flowers in umbels; pedicels 1 to 4 inches long; 

 sepals !/2 to % the length of the petals, vermilion or orange inside, often spotted 

 with brown near the base, brownish without, with white-scarious margins ; petals 



