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cuneate, rather truncate, % to l 1 /^ inches long, nearly as broad, flame-color, 

 brilliant vermilion or rarely orange, naked above, a few scattered hairs below, 

 sometimes with a black band or patch on the lower portion ; gland very small, 

 circular, bordered by a narrow black annular membrane with the inner ashy- 

 gray edge laciniate, its surface thickly covered with short slender hairs, the hairs 

 orange below, ashy above, once or twice diehotomously cleft; anthers brownish- 

 purple; capsule l l /z to 2 inches long, 4 to 5 lines wide, attenuate above, the sides 

 light-colored but often bordered at the angles with a stripe of purplish-brown. 



Hard clay or gravelly soil: Mohave Desert west to Ventura Co., east to 

 southern Nevada and Arizona. Frequent. May. 



Locs. Mt. Pinos, Hall; Cuddy Canon, Kern Co., Hall; New York Mts., Jepson 5447; 

 Warrens Well, Jepson; Ord Mt., Jepson 5880; Stoddard's Well, Jepson 5906; Victorville, 

 Hall. 



Eefs. CALOCHORTTJS KENNEDY: Porter, Bot. Gaz. 2:79 (1877), type loc. Kern Co., W. L. 

 Kennedy. C. speciosus Jones, Contrib. W. Bot. 14:28 (1912). 



14. C. weedii Wood. WEED'S MARIPOSA. (Fig. 54.) Stem 1 to 2 l / 2 feet 

 high, usually much branched, stout and flexuous, leafy, 1 to many-flowered, not 

 bulbiferous; sepals shorter than or often exceeding the petals, narrowly ovate- 

 lanceolate, yellowish within, scarious-margined ; petals broadly cuneate, rounded 

 above, "sometimes apiculate, orange-color to lemon yellow, nearly covered with 

 long silky hairs each set in a small dark spot, or the upper fourth or fifth naked ; 

 upper margins of petals fringed or serrate; gland small, circular, enclosed by 

 a dense ring of hairs and generally bearing a few scattered hairs on its surface ; 

 anthers oblong-linear, shorter or longer than the filaments; capsule narrowly 

 oval, attenuate above, l 1 /^ inches long. 



Dry hills, San Diego Co. ; south to Lower California. June. Common on 

 the coast. Flowers 1 to l 1 /^ inches long. 



Locs. Palomar, Jepson $ Hall; Capitan School, K. Srandegee; Laguna Mts., T. Brande- 

 gee; Valley Center, Cliandler 54^40; San Diego, K. Brandegee; Del Mar, Jepson 1611; Eain- 

 bow, Parish 4458. 



Var. vestus Purdy. Petals truncatish, reddish-brown, covered with golden hairs, the upper 

 third with brown hairs, and the margin fringed with brown hairs; anthers oblong-lanceolate. 

 Santa Barbara and Ventura cos. : Ojai Valley, Olive Thacher. 



Eefs. CALOCHORTUS WEEDII Wood, Proc. Acad. Phila. 20:169 (1868), type loc. San Diego, 

 Weed; Purdy, Proc. Cal. Acad. ser. 3, 2:132, pi. 17 (1901). Var. VESTUS Purdy I.e. 133, type 

 loc. Santa Barbara, Purdy. 



15. C. obispoensis Lemmon. Habit of C. weedii; sepals y% to 14 longer 

 than the petals; petals ovate, acuminate, the tips generally black and fringed 

 with long black hairs ; gland circular to oblong, enclosed by a dense ring of very 

 long orange hairs, the surface naked or bearing a very few scattered hairs; 

 anthers oblong, obtuse, shorter than the filaments; capsule linear, 1 to l 1 /^ inches 

 long. 



Canons of the hills and mountains, San Luis Obispo Co. 



Locs. Santa Lucia Mts., Summers; San Luis Obispo, Ehoda Beed; Arroyo Grande, F. 

 Lowe. 



Eefs. CALOCHORTUS OBISPOENSIS Lemmon, Bot. Gaz. 11:180 (1886), type loc. San Luis 

 Obispo, Lemmon. C. weedii var. obispoensis Purdy, Proc. Cal. Acad. ser. 3, 2:133 (1901). 



16. C. plummerae Greene. Habit of C. weedii ; corms large, often 2, enclosed 

 side by side in a dense fibrous coat; sepals lanceolate (white-scarious margined 

 at base), elongated attenuate, exceeding the petals; petals cuneate, apiculate or 

 rounded above, lilac or lilac-purple with orange-colored hairs on lower half, the 

 hairs usually arising from deep purple spots; gland small, circular, pocketed, 

 enclosed by a dense ring of long orange-colored hairs gathered together above 

 the gland, its surface naked or sometimes bearing one or few solitary hairs; 

 capsule narrowly linear, l 1 /^ to 3*4 inches long. 



