300 LILIACEAE 



(rare southwards) ; Sierra Nevada from Butte Co. southwards. May. Called 

 Snow-drops in Tuolumne and Calaveras cos., Indian Bells in Calaveras Co., and 

 Satin Bell in the Coast Ranges. 



Locs. South Coast Ranges: Burlingame, M. S. Baker; Niles; Los Gatos, Heller. Southern 

 California: Ojai Valley, Olive Thacher; Little Santa Anita Canon, San Gabriel Mts., Peirson. 

 2163; Fish Canon, San Gabriel Mts., Peirson; Claremont, ace. I. M. Johnston; Palomar, Hall 

 1937; Cuyamaca Mts., Parish 4422 (some petals with fringed margin like C. pulehellus) ; Santa 

 Cruz. Isl., usually pale rose (Zoe, 2:78) ; Santa Rosa Isl., T. Brandegee. Sierra Nevada (plants 

 somewhat smaller and the flowers apparently differing a little from the Coast Range form: 

 Gwin Mine, Calaveras Co., Jepson 1773 ; Columbia, Jepson 6295. 



Var. rubellus Greene. (Fig. 56c.) Generally lower and more slender; flowers rose-pink; 

 gland scarcely arched, from the outside resembling a blood-blister. Southern Sierra Nevada 

 and the Santa Lucia and Santa Cruz mountains. June. Passes into the species. 



Locs. Samson Flats, Fresno Co., Newhall; Sand Creek, Harriet Kelley; Dunlap, Jepson 

 2768; Limekiln Creek, Jepson; Old Colony Mill, Sequoia Park, Jepson 642; Nelson, Middle 

 Tule River, Jepson 4866; Lucia, Monterey Co., Hall; Ben Lomond (Zoe, 2:79). 



Refs. CALOCHORTUS ALBUS Dougl. ; Benth. Trans. Hort. Soc. Lond. ser. 2, 1:413, pi. 14, 

 fig. 3 (1835), type from Cal., Douglas; Wood, Proc. Phila. Acad. 20:168 (1868) ; Jepson, Fl. W. 

 Mid. Cal. 113 (1901); McB. Oontrib. Gray Herb. 66:12 (1918). Cyclobothra alba Benth. I.e.; 

 Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1661 (1835). Var. RUBELLUS Greene, Erythea, 1:152 (1893), type loc. 

 Pacific Grove, Tidestrom. Var. amoenus Purdy; Bailey, Stand. Cyclop. Hort. 2:632 (1914). 

 C. amoenus Greene, Pitt. 2:71 (1890), type loe. Sierra Nevada east of Visalia, Patterson. 



19. C. monophyllus Jepson. YELLOW STAR TULIP. (Fig. 56d-g.) Stem 

 flexuous, branching, 3 to 8 inches high ; basal leaf 9 to 12 inches high, 3 to 4 lines 

 wide ; bracts linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 2 to 4 lines wide ; sepals narrowly 

 ovate, acuminate, mucronate, about equaling petals; sepals and petals yellow 

 or more or less purplish brown ; petals obovate ; gland semicircular, borne in a 

 shallow pocket (appearing on the outside as a ridge) covered from below by a 

 narrow laciniate scale, and densely bordered or crested above with short yellow 

 (or the innermost white) hairs; hairs and laciniae of gland papillate; claw below 

 the scale naked, often glandular, sometimes red-brown ; capsule orbicular, 6 to 9 

 lines long. 



Lower Yellow Pine belt of the Sierra Nevada from Shasta Co. to Tuolumne 

 Co. Frequent. Apr. Petals 5 to 8 (or 9) lines long. 



Locs. Reed Road, Shasta Co., M. S. Baker; Brush Creek, Butte Co., K. Conger; Rough 

 and Ready, Nevada Co., Jepson; Camino, El Dorado Co., K. Brandegee; Italian Bar, Tuolumne 

 Co., A. L. Grant. 



Refs. CALOCHORTTJS MONOPHYLLUS Jepson, Madrono, 1:61 (1917). Cyclobothra mono- 

 phylla Lindl. Jour. Hort. Soc. Lond. 4:81 (1849), type loe. Bear Valley, Nevada Co., Hartweg 

 371. C. elegans var. lutea Benth. PI. Hartw. 338 (1857), type loc. Bear Valley, Nevada Co., 

 Hartweg 371. Calochortus benthamii Baker, Jour. Linn. Soe. Bot. 14:304 (1874). 



20. C. caeruleus Wats. BEAVERTAIL GRASS. Stems short (1 to 7 inches high), 

 the basal leaf 1 to 3 times as long; flowers 2 to 4 (or 10) in umbels; pedicels very 

 slender ; bracts small ; petals rhombic-ovate, 31/2 to 6 ( or 7 ) lines long, white or 

 pale blue, lilac-dotted and lined with blue, hairy, the margin fringed ; gland 

 narrow, transverse, curved, shallow, covered by an appressed somewhat fringed 

 scale and crested by a row of short scales ; these latter scales narrow, often hair- 

 like, frequently laciniate or incised; capsule orbicular or nearly so, obtuse, 6 

 lines long. 



Open woods, middle altitudes of the Sierra Nevada from El Dorado Co. to 

 Shasta Co., and in the high North Coast Ranges from northern Lake Co. to 

 Siskiyou Co. June. 



Variation in gland: The narrow transverse gland is somewhat curved or lunate (Armstrong 

 Sta., El Dorado Co., Hansen 1071; Blue Canon, Placer Co., H. A. Walker; Nelson Pt., Plumas 

 Co., Hall 9395; Marble Mt., Chandler 1646; Trinity Summit, Jepson 2035), rarely straight 

 (Marble Mt., Jepson 2824), and varies in breadth from % to % the width of the petal at 

 the place of the gland in the specimens cited, even in the same lot of specimens (Marble Mt., 

 Jepson 2824). These results do not sustain C. nanus Piper as distinct from C. caeruleus. 

 C. caeruleus is most commonly found between 4000 and 7500 feet but occurs in typical form 





