654 LILIACEZ CALOCHORTUS 
C. uniflorus 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: 
sepals 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 brancbed: 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, ae 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, 187, pl. xi, figs. 
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, 14g inches long, nodding. On grassy hillsides, Willam- 
ette valley Oregon. 
C. apiculatus 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. nitidus Dougl. Trans. Hort. Soc. vii, 277, t. 9, fig a. Stem 1-2 
feet high, rather stout, stiffly 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, Lone ACOs 16-18 lines 
long, hyaline-margined on one side; petals very ey 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- 
long, 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. R. Rep. ii, 124. Stem slender, 3-15 inches 
high, umbellately 1-5 flowered: radical leaf linear, deeply channeled, cau- 
line 1-3, narrow, glaucous, the margins revolute: bracts long-acuminate, 
1-2 inches long: sepals ovate-lanceolate, with scarious margins, yellowlsh 
within, with or without a dark spot at base which issometimes hairy, 10-12 
lines long, much shorter than the petals, acute; petals broadly obovate- 
cuneate with rather narrow claw, 134 inches long, abruptly acute or 
