PIPER FLORA OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON. 195 



6. Calochortus purdyi Eastwood, Pioc. Cal. xVuad. 111. 1: 187. 1898. 

 Typk locality: Grants Pass, Oregon, CoUocted by Ilowell. 

 Range: Western Washington and western Oregon. 



Specimens examined: Seattle, Piper, June 4, 1883; Meany, J una, 1885. 

 Zonal distuibution: Humid Transition. 



7. Calochortus lyallii Baiier, Journ. Linn. Soc. 14: 305. 1875. 

 Calochortus ciliaius Robinson & Seaton, Bot. Gaz. 18: 238. 1893. 



Type locality: "Columbia brittanica ad apicem nionts alt. 5,800 pedes inter fluv. 

 Columbia et Yakima." Collected by Lyall. 



Range: Eastern Washington, in the Cascade Mountains. 



Specimens examined: Naches River, Henderson 2485; Mount Stuart, Sandhenj c& 

 Leiberg 575; Wenache Mountains, WUted 1139, 40; Cotton 12(56, 1313, 1657; Wenache 

 region, Brandegee 1107; without locality, Vasey 82. 



Zonal distribution: Iludsonian. 



A specimen of E. ciliatus from the Wenache Mountains, the type locality for each sup- 

 posed species, was sent to Mr. J. G. Baker, who ix^jorts that it "is not exactly the same" 

 as the type of C. lyallii, "as it differs in the relative length of anther to filanu^nt." A 

 fairly large series of specimens convinces me that two species can not be maintained as 

 distinct on such a basis. 



8. Calochortus stibalpinus sp. nov. 



Bulbs ovate, 2 to 3 cm. long, the outer coats dark; stems flexuous, erect, 15 to 20 cm. 

 high, usually exceeded by the solitary leaf, 1 to 3-flowered; leaf linear-lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate, 3 to 8 mm. wide, paler beneath.; bracts lanceolate, long-acuminate, 2 to 3 cm. long; 

 sepals lance-ovate, acuminate, somewhat scarious on the margins, 1.5 to 2.5 cm. long, 

 6 to 9-nerved, the base strongly arched forming a shallow pit inside, this marked by a 

 purple spot; petals cream-colored, purplish at base, obovate or rhombic-orbicular, 2 to 3 

 cm. long, slightly erosc at margin, sparsely villous over the upper face above tlie striate 

 minutely puberulent gland excepting a narrow portion near the apex; scale narrow, entire, 

 extending in a gentle curve nearly across the petal and covered with long, retrorsc hairs; 

 filaments broadly wing-margined, equalling the long-beaked anthers; capsules nodding, 

 narrowly elliptic, rather acutish at each end, 2 to 3 cm. long, beaked by a style 1 to 2 

 mm. long. 



A subalpine species closely allied to C. purdyi Eastwood, which dill'ers in having thinner 

 sepals lacking the pit at the base, more villous petals without the naked apical area, less 

 villous scales which are very strongly arched, a much thinner perfectly smooth gland, and 

 merely acuminate, not beaked, anthers? 



Specimens examined: Washington: Mount St. Helens, Coville 765, July 18, 1898; 

 Mount Adams, Henderson 52; Klickitat River, Flett 1124; Skamania County, Suksdorf, 

 August 11, 1886; White Salmon, Suksdorf in 1879; Falcon Valley, Suksdorf, July 1, August 

 1881. 



Oregon: Mount Hood, A. Wood in 1866; Gorman, September 23, 1896; Dr. C. H. Mer- 

 riam, altitude 6,0(X) to 7,000 feet in 1896; Howell in 1881 (type, in U. S. National Her- 

 barium); Three Sisters, Gorman 121, July 21, 1903, altitude 6,000 feet. 



This species was included in C elegans nanus Wood by its author, but the type of that 

 came from near Yreka, California, and is quite different from this subalpine or alpine 

 northern species. In Howell's Flora of Northwest America this species is well described, 

 but under the name C. lyallii Baker, which belongs to a very different species. The species 

 has also been confused with C. apiculaius Baker. 



MELANTHACEAE. Bunch-flower Family. 



Anthers 1-celled; leaves neither rigid nor equitant. 



Leaves broad; petioles sheathing; flowers in a large panicle. . Vekatuum (p. 196). 

 ;aves narrow, grass-like. 



