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CALOCHORTUS LILIACE A 655 
rounded at the apex, white above, yellowish below, with a small round or 
oblong gland which is densely covered with agglutinated hairs, a few hairs 
scattered above: anthers oblong, obtuse, more or less sagittate: capsule 
lanceolate, 1-2 inches long, erect. Eastern Oregon to Nevada and Nebraska. 
C. Howellii Watson Proc. Am. Acad, xxiii, 266. Bulb large, 6-12 
lines in diameter, very deep-seated: stem stiffly erect, 1-2 feet high, um- 
bellately 1-3-flowered, sometimes branched: radical leaf about a foot long, 
4-6 lines wide, cauline leaf narrow, 3-6 inches long, long acuminate : bracts 
long acuminate from a broad base, 1-2 inches long: flowers open-campanu- 
late: sepals broad lanceolate, acuminate, about 6 lines long, one margin 
hyaline, purplish outside: petals cuneate-obovate rounded at the apex, 
1-14 inches long, white with dark base, sparsely bearded with short crisp 
hairs inside: gland transversely oblong, densely covered with yeliow hairs: 
anthers oblung, acute and apiculate, about 3 lines long: capsule elliptical, 
8-10 lines long, erect. In moist places near Waldo southern Oregon. 
-C. longibarbatus Watson 1. c. xvii, 381. Stem slender, 10-15 inches 
high, strictly erect, umbellately one- to several-flowered: radical leaf 
broadly linear, acute, nearly as long as or longer than the stem; cauline 
linear and bract-like: bracts linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 1-2 inches long: 
sepals rather narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, 8-10 lines long, greenish 
lilac within : petals lavender-color, lighter below with a dark-purple circu- 
lar band above the gland, cuneate-obovate, about an inch long, the apex 
rounded to almost truncate, denticulate: gland small, roundish, covered 
with dense matted brown hairs with some long silky hairs above and be- 
side it, the margins not ciliate: filaments slender, dilated downward, 2-3 
times as long as the narrowly ovate obtuse anthers: capsule elliptical, 
9-10 lines long, erect. In low grassy grounds, eastern Oregon and Wash- 
ington near the base of the Cascade Mountains. 
C. pavonaceus Fernald Bot. Gaz. xix, 335. Stem slender, strictly 
erect, 1-2 feet high: radical leaf lanceolate, not channeled, 1-14 feet long, 
cauline bract-like, 8-4 inches long: bracts subulate, 1-3 inches long: sepals 
purplish, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, an inch long: petals cuneate-obo- 
vate, 15-18 lines long, lavender-color to purple, with a circular band above 
the small round gland which is covered with densely matted yellow hairs, 
the margins sparsely ciliate, the lower third sparingly bearded with silky 
hairs: filaments slender, winged; anthers 3-5 lines long, shorter than the 
filaments: capsule elliptical, acutely angled and strongly beaked, erect. 
In low meadows near Pullman, Washington. 
C. macrocarpus Dougl. Trans. Hort. Soc. vii, 276, t. 8. Stem stout, 
erect and rigid, 1-2 feet high, one- to several-flowered: radical leaf deeply 
channeled, a foot or more long; cauline 3-5, narrow and convolute, 3-6 
inches long: sepals lanceolate, acuminate, 15-18 lines long, purplish with a 
dark base inside, sometimes spotted and hairy, with a broad scarious mar- 
gin: petals cuneate-obovate, 144-2 inches long and half as wide, purple, 
with a greenish line down the centre, the lower third above the gland spar- 
ingly bearded with glaudular hairs: gland oblong, densely hairy: anthers 
lanceolate, obtuse 4-6 lines long, about as long as the filaments: capsule 
lanceolate, attenuate upward, 1-2 inches long, erect. On dry or sandy 
plains in the interior, California to Brit. Columbia. 
OrpER XCVII CONVALLARIACE Link. Handb. i, 184. 
Scapose or Jeafy-stemmed plants with simple or branched 
rootstocks or bulbs, mostly broad parallel-veined leaves and 
numerous or solitary flowers in terminal racemes or panicles. 
Perianth inferior, 4-6-lobed or parted. Stamens 6, hypogyn- 
ous, or borne on the perianth: anthers introrsely or exextrorsely 
