Calochorfii.s. LILIACEJi;. J •73 



leaf c([nalling or exceeding tlio stem, 4 to 12 linos broad; bracts linear-lanceolate, 

 exceeding or eiiualling tlio, flowers: sepals yellow or greenisli, 8 to 12 lines long, a 

 little sliortor tlian the yellow or orange oblong- or broadly ovate acntisb jx'tais, wliich 

 are glandular-ciliate and sparingly sin-inklcd with short erect yellow hairs; gland a 

 deep pit projecting npward and covered by tlie stilF appressed yellow hairs growing 

 on the npper margin : anthers broad, obtuse or acutisli : capsule elliptical, 12 to 15 

 lines long and G to 8 broad, obtuse. — Wood, Proc. Piiilad. Acad. 18G8, 108. Cj/do- 

 bot/ira jiHlchella, IJcnth. 1. c, t. 11, lig. 1 ; Lindl. T.ot. Peg. t. lG(i2. 

 In the Coast Itaiigcs from ]\Ioiitcrpy to Jleiidociiio ("ouiitv. 



* * Flowers cnmpannlate with less incurved and less arched pefti Is, erect jvhen 



open: i^edicels slender, recurved in fruit : stem low. 



■i- Floiuers yellow. 



3. C. Benthami, Paker. Pesembling the last : low and slender (3 to G inches 

 high), 2-G-llo\vered : leaves mucli elongated, 2 to 5 lines broad : flowers smaller and 

 nearly erect ; petals G or 7 lines long and mostly obtuse, rather densely covered with 

 yellow hairs, and with a shallow lunate gland above the brownish or often deep 

 brown claw : anthers acute : capsule nodding, G to 9 lines long. — Journ. Linn. 80c. 

 xiv. 304. Gycloboihra eleyans, var. Intea, Penth. PI. Hartw. 338. (J.nitidiis/Yoxr. 

 Pacif. Pt. Ptep. iv. 14G, not Dougl.; Wood, 1. c. 1G9. 



Ill the Sierra Nevada, from ^laiijiosa to Butte Counties. 



-K- -I- Flowers ivhite or light lilac. 

 ++ Petals covered with hairs and mostly ciliate. 



4. C. Maweanus, Leichtlin. Stem low and flexuous (3 to 10 inches high), 

 usually branched and 3- G-llowered : leaves glaucous, exceeding the stem, 4 to G 

 lines wide ; bracts lanceolate, an inch long or more : petals white or puriilish blue, 

 at least at base, G to 8 lines long, exceeding the purplish sepals, broadly obovate, 

 acute, somewhat i)itted and arched, the broad naked claw covered above by a trans- 

 verse semicircular scale, and the rest of the surface more or less densely covered with 

 long erect white or purplish hairs : anthers lanceolate, acuminate, 2 or 2i lines long: 

 cai)Sulo oblong-ellij)tic, acutish. — Paker, 1. c. 305, under 0. eleyans. Cyclobotkra 

 elegans, Torr. Pacif. P. Pep. iv. 14G. Calochortus eleyans, Hook. f. Pot. Mag. 

 t. 597G. 



Near the coast from San Francisco (at Punta do los Reyes, Bigclow) iiortinvard to Humboldt 

 County {Ra/tan) ; Butte County, near Ciiico, Ah'S. Bidwell. 



5. C. Cceruleus, Watson. Low and very slender {3 to G inches high), the soli- 

 tary leaf (I to 3 lines broad, strongly nerved) much exceeding the simple luubel- 

 lately 2-5-flowered stem : bracts small, 4 to 9 lines long: i)edicels very slender, 

 H inches long or less : sepals G or 7 lines long, about equalling the rhombic-obovate 

 acute rather deeply pitted and arched petals, which are lilac more or less dotted and 

 lined with darker blue ; claw narrower; gland transvei'sely divided by a broad semi- 

 circular fringed scale which is closely appre.ssed over the upi)er half; the rest of the 

 petal covered and fringed with slender hairs : anthers oblong, obtuse, U or 2 lines 

 long : capsule orbicular or nearly so, 6 lines long, not beaked. — Proc. Amer. Acad, 

 xiv. 2G3. Cyclobothra eleyans, var., Penth. PI. Hartw. 338 (n. 1988). Cyclobotkra 

 coirnlea, Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad. ii. 4. C. ylaiicus, Pegel, Act. Hort. Petrop. 

 iii. 28.5 ] 



In tiie Sierra Nevada, from Placer to Plumas Counties. 



G. C. elegans, Pursh. Pesembling the last: leaves rather broader (3 to 8 lines 

 wide) : flowers greenish Avhite, purplish at base ; i)etals not ciliate on the margin or 

 sparingly so, and the upper part of tlie gland covered by a very narrow deeply 

 fringed ascending scale: anthers long-acuminate: otherwise like the last. — Fl. i. 

 240 ; Dougl. in Ti-ans. Hort. Soc. vii. 278, t. 9, lig. B. 



