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as low as 2300 feet (Dunsmuir, Hall < Babcock}. Specimens from Stirling (Heller 10812) 

 and Old Cow Creek, Shasta Co. (M. S. Baker), have the usual curved type of gland, but in 

 coloration and size of flowers represent certain of the stages in the gradual transition to the 

 var. maweanus. This variety indeed is too close to C. tolmiei H. & A. of the Willamette 

 Valley, somewhat as the species is very closely allied to C. elegans Pursh of Idaho. The 

 fimbriae of the scale and the crest are covered with slender microscopic papillae in both the 

 species and the variety. While the variation of the gland in the species as here accepted is 

 marked, it is far less than in, for example, C. luteus. 



Var. maweanus Jepson n. comb. PUSSY EARS. Sepals commonly very blue; petals pur- 

 plish blue to white, 7 to 11 lines long, the margin entire or nearly so; gland horseshoe-shaped 

 or semicircular, narrow, more or less pocketed; crest usually rather dense. Marin Co. north 

 through the Coast Kanges to Humboldt Co. 



Locs. Inverness, comm. by Alice King; Eowe's, Mendocino Co., Chandler; Kneeland 

 Prairie, Tracy; Dows Prairie, Tracy 4813. 



Eefs. CALOCHORTUS CAEKULEUS Wats. Proc. Am. Aead. 14:263 (1879). Cyclobothra 

 caerulea Kell. Proc. Cal. Acad. 2:4 (1863), type loc. Forest City, near Downieville. Calochortus 

 elegans var. nanus Wood, Proc. Acad. Phila. 20:168 (1868)., type loc. Yreka, Wood. C. nanus 

 Piper, Bull. Torr. Club, 33:537 (1906); McBr. Contrib. Gray Herb. 66:12 (1918). Var. 

 MAWEANUS Jepson. C. maweamis Leicht. ; Baker, Jour. Linn. Soc. Bot. 14:305 (1874), type 

 from Cal., doubtless collected by Roezl; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 112 (1901) ; Purdy, Proc. Cal. 

 Aead. ser. 3, 2:120 (1901). Var. major Purdy, I.e., a large form, Yellow Pine belt, Butte Co. 

 Cyclobothra elegans Torr. Pae. E. Eep. 4:146 (1857). Calocliortus elegans Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 

 5976 (1872), not Pursh. 



21. C. nudus Wats. SIERRA STAR TULIP. Stem 2 to 6 inches high, flexuous, 

 bearing a single umbel of 1 to 3 (or 9) flowers; basal leaf 3 to 10 inches long, 2 

 to 5 lines wide, light green ; sepals oblong-elliptic, shorter than the petals ; petals 

 white or pale lilac-blue, cuneate or fan-shaped, acute, denticulate above, 4 to 7 

 lines long, generally without hairs, in some cases a very few slender hairs above 

 the gland or a tuft of 2 or 3 short hairs at either end of the gland ; scale trans- 

 versely oblong, shortly fringed, appressed ; crest none ; claw below the scale some- 

 what glandular; anthers at first pale blue, linear, acute; capsule elliptic, gen- 

 erally nodding. 



Open coniferous woods, high Sierra Nevada from Plumas Co. to Tulare Co. 

 Also, apparently, in the San Gabriel Mts. June-July. The smallest-flowered 

 Calochortus. Petals often with a flash of pink or purple above the gland. 



Loes. Warner Valley, Plumas Co., Jepson 4073; Cisco, H. A. Walker; Calaveras Big Trees, 

 A. L. Grant; Center Camp near Confidence, A. L. Grant; Glacier Pt., Yosemite, Jepson 4344; 

 Snow Creek, Fresno Co., A. L. Grant 1063; Round Mdw., Giant Forest, Jepson 673; Freeman 

 Creek, Kern River, Jepson 4882a; (?) Mt. San Antonio, Peirson 289. 



Var. shastensis Jepson n. comb. Stem 4 to 14 inches high, slender, flexuous, more or less 

 erect; basal leaf shorter than, equal to, or longer than the stem; petals white, pale lilac blue 

 to deep lilac, 6 to 10 lines long; capsule elliptic, generally erect, occasionally nodding. Moist 

 meadows; Sierra Nevada from Eldorado Co. north to Mt. Shasta; thence southwesterly to 

 Trinity Co. 



Locs. Pyramid Peak, Hall <$ Chandler 4754; Kentucks, Shasta Co., M. S. Baker 439; 

 MaCloud, I. J. Condit; Sisson, Hall $ Babcock 4067; Pin Creek, Trinity Co., Hall 8684. 



Refs. CALOCHORTUS NUDUS Wats. Proe. Am. Acad. 14:263 (1879), based on spms. from 

 the northern Sierra Nevada. Var. SHASTENSIS Jepson. C. shastensis Purdy, Proc. Cal. Acad. 

 ser. 3, 2:125 (1901), type loc. Sisson. 



22. C. mnbellatus Wood. (Fig. 57.) Stem 3 to 10 inches high, without 

 bulblets, bearing 2 to 4 (or 12) flowers in 1 to 3 umbels subtended by leafy bracts, 

 the pedicels long; herbage glaucous; sepals oblong, acuminate, greenish-white or 

 slightly tinged with lilac ; petals white or slightly lilac-tinged, cuneate or fan- 

 shaped, slightly concave, 6 to 9 lines long ; gland shallow, bowl-shaped in outline, 

 covered from below by an appressed fringed scale and bordered by hairs on its 

 upper side; petals otherwise naked save a hairy area (often with a purple spot 

 below it) on each side of the gland; anthers short-oblong; capsule oblong-obtuse 

 to orbicular, strongly nodding. 



Low wooded or barren hills: region between San Ramon Valley and San 

 Francisco Bay ; Marin Co. to Mendocino Co. Mar.-Apr. 



