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flowers in bracted racemes. Perianth of 3 narrow greenish se- 

 pals and 3 broad more or less concave distinct deciduous petals 

 usually with a conspicuous glandular pit near the base. Stamens 

 6, inserted on the bases of the the segments, included : anthers 

 linear to oblong, attached by the base, longitudinally dehiscent. 

 Ovary sessile, triangular, 3-celled, many-ovuled. Stigmas sessile, 

 recurved, persistent. Capsule membranaceous, 3-angled or 3- 

 winged, mostly septicidally dehiscent. Seeds numerous, in two 

 rows in each cell, somewhat, flattened, with a thin membranous 

 white or brownish often loose testa. 



C. Maweanus Leichtlin Baker Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv, 305. Stem 

 flexuous 3-10 inches high, usually branched and 3-10-flowered : leaves 

 glaucous, exceeding the stem, 4-6 lines wide : bracts lanceolate, an inch 

 long or more : sepals ovate-lanceolate acute or acuminate, purplish : petals 

 a little longer, white, or purplish at base, 6-8 lines long, broadly obovate, 

 acute, somewhat pitted and arched, the broad naked claw covered above 

 by a transverse semicircular scale, the rest of the surface more or less 

 densely covered with long erect white or purplish hairs : anthers lanceolate, 

 acuminate, 2 lines long: capsule oblong-elliptic, acutish. Near the coast, 

 southern Oregon to California. 



Var. roseus Purdy Proc. Calif. Acad. 3d ser. ii, 121. Bulbs with 

 mahogany-colored coats : flowers tinged with rose. Southern Oregon. 



C. elegans Pursh Fl. 240. Stem very slender, 4-8 inches high 1-4- 

 flowered : leaf lanceolate, acuminate, 2-4 lines wide, exceeding the stem : 

 bracts about half the length of the pedicels, acuminate from a base 2 lines 

 wide : sepals ovate, acute, greenish-white outside, purplish at base : petals 

 obovate, obtuse, whitish, or slightly tinged with green, with a purple spot 

 on the claw, thickly covered with rather short soft hairs, except a band 

 around the margins, which are white on the upper and purple on the lower 

 portion; scale narrow, ascending, deeply fringed, covering about ^ the 

 width of the claw: anthers long-acuminate: capsule elliptical, rounded at 

 each end. In pine woods, eastern Washington and Idaho. 



C. Lyallli Baker 1. c. C. elegans var. nanus Wood. Stem slender, 

 3- 10 inches high, umbellately 3-5-flowered : leaf lanceolate, 4-6 lines wide, 

 acute, often % longer than the stem: bracts lanceolate, long acuminate, 

 about an inch long: sepals oblong-lanceolate short acuminate, 6-10 lines 

 long, greenish-purple, strongly arched below, the pit thus formed dark 

 purple inside: petals light yellow to nearly white with purplish base, 

 longer than the sepals, often an inch broad, triangular-ovate, finely erose, 

 rounded and often shortly acuminate at the apex, strongly arched below, 

 the scale broad and covered with retrorse hairs, the portion above the scale 

 pubescent with short soft hairs except a narrow belt around the apex : fil- 

 aments broad, abruptly narrowed at the apex: anthers lanceolate, long-ac- 

 uminate above, 4 lines long : capsule elliptical 10-12 lines long nodding. 

 On grassy slopes on the highest parts of the Cascade Mountains, Oregon 

 to Brit. Columbia. 



C. Lobbii Purdy 1. c. 122. Stem 3-5 inches high : leaf 3-5 lines wide, 

 longer than the stem, abruptly acute: sepals ovate-lanceolate, acute, 

 greenish with a dark spot below, 6-8 lines long ; petals a little longer, white 

 tinged with green, broadly rhombic-ovate, very deeply pitted, the pit 

 showing as a prominent knob on the back, hairy above the gland : scale 

 very narrow, deeply bordered with long feathery fringe and concealed in 

 the recess of the pit: filaments subulate; anthers oblong, acuminate, 

 ending in a hooked cusp : capsule narrowly beaked. Only known from 

 Mount Jefferson, Oregon. 



