LILY FAMILY 299 



Dry slopes and mesas : Santa- Monica Mts., through the San Gabriel and 

 San Bernardino mountains to the San Jacinto Mts. Common. 



Locs. Plants of the region from Newhall to San Bernardino have evenly shaded petals 

 and the gland pocket shallow; plants from the San Jacinto Mts. have the petals conspicuously 

 purple spotted and the gland in a deeply folded pocket forming a conspicuous convex ridge 

 on the outside. Newhall, Barber 176; Santa Monica Mts., J. Q. Adams; Kub'io Canon, foot- 

 hills east, Peirson 8; Cajon Pass, Hall 1417; San Bernardino, Parish; San Jacinto Mts., G. F. 

 Bineliardt. 



Refs. CALOCHORTTJS PLUMMERAE Greene, Pitt. 2:70 (1890), type loc. Mill Creek Canon, 

 San Bernardino, Lemmon. C. weedii var. purpurascens Wats. Proc. Am. Aead. 14:265 (1879), 

 based primarily on spms. from Cajon Pass (ace. McB. Contrib. Gray Herb. 56:13). 



17. C. pulchellus Dougl. GOLDEN LILY BELL. FAIRY LANTERN. (Fig. 55.) 

 Stem flexuous, usually dichotomously branching, y 2 to 1% feet high, 2 or 3 to 

 12-flowered ; basal leaf y 2 to % inch wide, equal tp or taller than the stem, green, 

 glossy, sometimes tinged with purple; bracts linear-lanceolate, equaling or ex- 

 ceeding the flowers; flowers sub-globose, nodding; sepals greenish or brownish- 

 yellow, ovate-lanceolate to elliptic-ovate, abruptly acute, 10 to 15 lines long, 

 slightly shorter than the sub-orbicular petals; petals golden yellow, strongly 

 arched or incurved, their apices overlapping and the margins bluntly incised or 

 fringed ; gland in a deeply set pocket (visible from the outside as a convex ridge), 

 its upper fold bearing 2 or 3 rows of appressed glandular yellow hairs crossing 

 each other over the opening of the pocket; hairs of the gland simple or with 

 divided tips ; petals with scattered hairs above the gland or rarely almost glab- 

 rous; anthers oblong, acute, 2 lines long, usually a little shorter than the fila- 

 ments; capsule elliptical, abruptly short-beaked, winged, % to l 1 /^ inches long. 



Wooded hills, Mt. Diablo and in the North Coast Ranges from Marin and 

 Solano cos. north to Humboldt and Tehama cos. Apr.-May. 



Tax. Note. In most plants from the North Coast Ranges the petals have very few hairs, 

 usually (but not always) near the gland (=. amabilis Purdy, Proc. Cal. Acad. ser. 3, 2:119, 

 1901; C. pulchellus var. amabilis Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 113, 1901). In most plants from 

 Mt. Diablo the hairs are scattered generally over the surface of the petal (the form taken 

 by Purdy, I.e., as typical pulchellus'), but other plants from Mt. Diablo have few hairs and 

 thus match North Coast Range specimens, so that the form C. amabilis is not sufficiently dis- 

 tinct even for a variety. Over and above these considerations it may be pointed out that 

 Bentham 's statement, petal above the gland slightly covered with scattered hairs, may be 

 applied to plants of both regions. The margins of the petals in North Coast Range plants, 

 while generally short-fringed, are sometimes long-fringed as in Mt. Diablo specimens. 



Locs. Mt. Diablo, Jepson 7570, Eastwood, Purdy; Corte Madera, Heller 7364; Los Guilicos, 

 Michener $ Bioletti; Santa Rosa Creek Canon, M. S. Baker; Howell Mt., Tfacy; Ukiah, Purdy; 

 Fort Seward, Humboldt Co., Tracy; Laribee Creek, Humboldt Co., Tracy 4711; Crane Creek, 

 w. Tehama Co., Jepson (petals almost glabrous, a few hairs near the gland) ; Island Mt., 

 Trinity Co., Marion B. Parsons. 



Refs. CALOCHORTUS PULCHELLUS Dougl.; Benth. Trans. Hort. Soc. Lond. ser. 2, 1:412, 

 pi. 14, fig. 1 (1835), type from Cal., Douglas; Wood, Proc. Acad. Phila. 20:168 (1868) ; Purdy, 

 Proc. Cal. Acad. ser. 3, 2:118 (1901). Cydobothra pulchella Benth. I.e.; Lindl. Bot. Reg. 

 t. 1662 (1835). Calochortus amabilis Purdy l.c. 119; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. ed. 2, 98 (1911). 



18. C. albus Dougl. WHITE GLOBE LILY. (Fig. 56a, b.) Stem stout, glau- 

 cous, branching, 1 to 2 feet high ; basal leaf elongated lanceolate, acuminate, 1 

 to iy> feet long, % to 1% inches wide; bracts foliaceous, 3 to 5 inches long; 

 sepals shorter than the petals, ovate, acuminate, greenish- white ; petals white, 

 purplish at base, ovate-orbicular, acutish, with scattering long silky yellow hairs 

 above the gland, 1 to l 1 /^ inches long; gland lunate, shallow, with 4 transverse 

 scales, the scales upwardly imbricate, shortly fringed ; anthers oblong, mucronate ; 

 capsule 1 to 2 inches long, y 2 to 1 inch broad, abruptly short-beaked ; seeds brown, 

 pitted. 



Wooded slopes and canons : Coast Ranges near the coast from the Santa Cruz 

 Mts. southwards ; San Gabriel and Cuyamaca mountains in Southern California 



