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LILIACEi-E. 



Low : petals white ; gland with a transver.se fringe of aseemliiig 

 hairs: anthers long-aonniinate. Nortlu-rn. 



Taller : jxtals lilac ; fringe of the glaml relluxeil : anthers aeunii- 

 nate : caiisule clliittic, acntish. Korthcrn. 

 Petals not hairy or only at base : low : anthers ohtuse. 



Petals naked ; glanil with an ai)pressfil scale : anthers 2 or 3 

 lines long : capsnle ohlong, acnte. JSierra Nevada. 



Gland with a. scale and ciliate : anthers a line long : capsule ellip- 

 tical, ohtnse. ("oast Ihinges. 



Floweis usually solitary : gland densely hairy. Coast lianges. 

 Pedicels stout, usually erect iu fruit : flowers large, lilac, hairy at base : 

 anthers acute. 



* * Pedicels erect : llowers open-canipanulate : gland densely hairy : 

 capsule narrowly oMong with thick obtusely angled lobes, acute, sep- 

 ticidal : seeds somewhat turgid, with loose white spongy testa. 



Flowers yellow or orange, marked with purple or brown. Coast Kanges. 



Hairs upon the petals clavate. 

 , Hairs upon the jietals very .^lender. 



Petals deep yellow or purfilc, hairy and ciliate. 

 Petals reddish-orange, decji purple at base, nearly naked. 

 Petals usually yellow, purple at base and lined or spotted with brown- 

 ish purple iu the centre, slightly hairy below. l.*"). C. Lb'TF.U.s. 

 Flowers white or lilac: petals .'-lightly hairy below. 

 Of the Coast Ranges and S. California. 



Petals with a reddish sjiot near the top, a brownish spot in the centrt 



and a brownish base. 

 Petals clear lilac, paler below: anthers purple, 3 to 6 lines long. 

 Flowers small, white, yellowish at base : anthers yellow, 3 lines long 

 stem very slender. 

 Of N. California and the Sierra Nevada. 



Stout, erect, leafy, 1 -2-flowered : p<'tals lilac : anthers acutish. 

 Slender, often low, umbellately 1-5-tIowered : petals whitish above 

 with a purple spot above the yellow base : anthers obtuse, 

 sagittate. 20. C. Nuttam.ii. 



* * * Pedicels erect : capsule narrowly oblong with thick obtusely 

 angled lobes, obtuse, locnliciilal : seeds Hat, horizontal, with thin close 



testa. 21. C. C.vtai.in.i-:. 



§ 1. Fetah stvowjlij incvrvcd or arched, with a hroad transvcrsehj crested or wore 

 or less liainj })it at/ore the Ixise : sejxils nahed, rarely spotted : capsule ellip- 

 tical or broadly oblong, deeply triquetrous and septicidal, the thin co>n- 

 2)ressed lobes acute or winyed : Jlowers or fruit more or less noddiny : 

 seeds ascendiny, the testa mostly brownish, close aiid pitted. — Eucaly- 



CHORTLS. 



* Flowers subylobose loith concave petals, noddiny: stem usually tall and 



branchiny. 



1. C. albus, T>on'^\. Glaucous and branchings a foot or two liigli, with elongated 

 radical leaves k to 2 inches wide, and large foliaceous bracts : petals i)ure white (the 

 claw purplish)", ovate-orbicular, acutisli, 12 to 15 lines long, bearded above the 

 gland and ciliate with long white liairs ; gland lunate, shallow, with A)ur transverse 

 imbricate scales fringed with close short yellow or white glandular hairs : antliers 

 linear-oblong, obtuse, nnicronate : ovary attenuate above: capsule an inch or two 

 long, G to 12 lines broad, abruptly short-beaked : seeds brown, jiittcd. — C'i/rl"l>othra 

 alba, r.enth. in Traii.s. Ilort. Soc. i. -Ii;}, t. 14, iig. 3; Lindl. llot. l{eg. t. l(i(il. 



Var. paniculata, Hakei', 1. c. Stem more slender and less branched, with nar- 

 rower leaves and bracts : llowers smaller, on short solitary pedicels. — Cyclobothra 

 paniculata, Lindl. 1. c. 



Frerpient on the foothills of the Coast Ranges from Los Angeles County to Sonoma ; also in the 

 foothills of the Sierra Nevada (Placer County, Bulaiider). 



2. C. pulchellus, Dougl. Stem somewhat flexuous, with spreading branches, 

 a foot high or more, or sometimes only 2 or 3 inches high and 2 - 3-Howeied : radical 



