654 LILIACEJE CALOCHORTUS 



C. nniflorns H. & A. Bot. Beech. 398, t. 94. Stem low, flexuous, 

 usually branched. 4-12 inches high, umbellately 1-9-flowered: leaves 1-2, 

 4-6 lines wide, exceeding the stem: bracts linear -lanceolate, long and con- 

 spicuous : flowers open-campanulate, on flexuous pedicels 3-10 inches long : 

 eepala ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, greenish-lilac; petals cuneate, some- 

 what truncate, erose-denticulate, 10-12 lines long, lilac to rose-color, often 

 with a purple spot on each side of the scale, sparingly hairy immediately 

 above the gland, otherwise naked ; gland shallow, not pitted; scale narrow, 

 triangular: filaments slender; anthers obovate, obtuse, 2 lines long : cap- 

 sule elliptical nodding. In wet meadows, southern Oregon to California. 



C. Tolmiei H. & A. 1. c. Stem erect or ascending, 6-18 inches high, 

 usually branched : leaf 4-8 lines wide, shorter than or exceeding the stem : 

 bracts foliaceous, long acuminate, 1-4 inches long : flowers broadly cam- 

 panulate; sepals oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 6-10 lines long, purplish ; 

 petals yellowish purple, cuneate-obovate, a little longer than the sepals, 

 rounded and acutely apiculate at the summit, deeply pitted near the base, 

 pubescent with long crisped purple and white hairs ; the gland without 

 scale but the upper circular edge with a dense fringe of reflexed hairs : 

 anthers lanceolate, acute, 2-3 lines long: capsule elliptical, acute at both 

 ends 10-15 lines long, nodding. On dry grassy plains, Willamette valley 

 Oregon to northern California. 



C. Purdyi Eastwood Proc. Calif. Acad. 3d ser. i, 137, pi. xi, figg. 

 8a & 8b. Stem 8-16 inches high, rather stout, erect, branching, 2 many- 

 flowered : leaf linear-lanceolate, acuminate, about 8 inches long, 4-6 lines 

 wide : bracts foliaceous, acuminate : sepals from elliptical to narrowly ovate, 

 abruptly acuminate, green tinged with purple outside ; petals broadly ob- 

 ovate-cuneate, acute or rounded at the apex, creamy-white or tinged with 

 purple, the inner surface bearded all over with white and purple hairs, 

 somewhat arched by the narrow semicircular gland, the shallow pit covered 

 by a densely hairy narrow scale : anthers lanceolate, abruptly acuminate : 

 capsule elliptical, '\% inches long, nodding. On grassy hillsides, Willam- 

 ette valley Oregon. 



C. apicnlatns Baker Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv, 305. Stem stout, erect, 

 12-18 inches high : leaf 6-12 inches long, 3-9 lines wide : bracts linear, 

 acuminate, 1-3 inches long: sepals lanceolate, greenish-white, acute, 6-9 

 lines long ; petals straw-color, broadly obovate, an inch long, sparingly 

 hairy above inside, distinctly pitted, the pit densely hairy and without 

 scale: anthers 4 lines long, acuminate: capsule 12-15 lines long, narrowly 

 odlong, nodding. Lake Pend Oreille Idaho. 



C. nitidns Dougl. Trans. Hort. Soc. vii, 277, t. 9, fig a. Stem 1-2 

 feet high, rather stout, stiff ly erect : leaf linear-lanceolate, 8-13 inches long, 

 3-6 lines wide: bracts lanceolate, long acuminate, 1-2 inches long : flowers 

 large, open-campanulate ; sepals lanceolate, long-acuminate 16-18 lines 

 long, hyaline-margined on one side; petals very broadly ovate, as long as 

 the sepals, white or straw-color to lavender, with an Indago spot near the 

 centre, rounded above, sparsely bearded except a broad belt at the summit, 



gland small, rounded, densety matted with short hairs : anthers linear-ob- 

 >ng, 6-8 lines long, obtuse at both ends : capsule round to broadly elliptic, 

 8-10 lines long, with short stout beak, erect. Powder river Mountains, 

 eastern Oregon to Nevada. 



C. Nuttallii T. & G. Pac. E. Eep. ii, 124. Stem slender, 3-15 inches 

 high, umbellately 1-5 flowered: radical leaf linear, deeply channeled, can- 

 line 1-3, narrow, glaucous, the margins revolute: bracts long-acuminate, 

 1-2 inches long: sepals ovate-lanceolate, with scarious margins, yellowish 

 within, with or without a dark spot at base which is sometimes hairy, 10-12 

 lines long, much shorter than the petals, acute ; petals broadly obovate- 

 cuneate with rather narrow claw, 1^ inches long, abruptly acute or 



