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LILIACE^E. 



Calochortus. 



Low : petals white ; gland with a transverse fringe of ascending 

 hairs : anthers long-acuminate. Northern. 



Taller : petals lilac ; fringe of the glajul reflexed : anthers acumi- 

 nate : capsule elliptic, acutish. Northern. 

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



Petals naked ; gland with an appressed scale : anthers 2 or 3 

 lines long : capsule oblong, acute, Sierra Nevada. 



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

 tical, obtuse. Coast Ranges. 



Flowers usually solitary : gland densely hairy. Coast Eanges. 

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

 anthers acute. 



* * Pedicels erect : flowers open-campanulate : gland densely hair}' : 

 capsule narrowly oblong 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 Eanges. 

 Hairs upon the petals clavate. 

 Hairs upon the petals very slender. 



Petals deep yellow or purple, hairy and ciliate. 

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

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

 ish pur]de in the centre, slightly hairy below. 

 Flowers white or lilac: petals slightly hairy below. 

 Of the Coast Ranges and S. California. 



Petals with a reddish spot near the top, a brownish spot in the centre 



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: petals lilac : anthers acutish. 

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

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

 sagittate. 



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

 angled lobes, obtuse, loculicidal : seeds flat, horizontal, with thin close 

 testa. 



6. C. ELEGAX.S. 



7. C. TOLMIEI. 



8. C. NUDUS. 



C. LILACINUS. 

 C. UMFLOUUS. 



11. C. GllEENEI. 



21. 



C. Catalin^. 



§ 1. Petals strongly hiairved or arched, with a broad transversely crested or more 

 or less hairy 2i it above the base : sejxils naked, rarely spotted: capsule ellip- 

 tical or broadly oblong, deeply triquetrous and septicidul, the thin com- 

 pressed lobes acute or rvinged : Jiou-ers or fruit more or less nodding: 

 seeds ascending, the testa mostly brownish, close and pitted. — Eucaly- 



CHORTUS. 



* Flowers subglobose tvith concave petals, nodding: stem usually tall and 



branching. 



1. C. albus, Dougl. Glaucous and branchiug, a foot or two higli, with elongated 

 radical leaves |- to 2 inches Avide, and large foliaceous bracts : petals pure white (the 

 claw purplish), ovate-orhicular, acutish, 12 to 15 lines long, bearded above the 

 gland and ciliate with long white hairs : gland lunate, shallow, with four transverse 

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

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

 long, 6 to 12 lines broad, abruptly short-beaked : seeds brown, pitted, — Cyclohothra 

 alba, r,enth. in Trans. Hort. Soc. i. 413, t. 14, fig. 3 ; Lindl. Bot. Eeg. t.'l661. 



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

 rower l(;uve.s and bracts: flowers smaller, on short .solitary pedicels. — Cyclobothra 

 Xmniculata, Lindl. 1. c. 



Frecpient on the foothills of tlic Coast Ranges fi'om Los Angeles County • 

 foothills of till! Sierra Nevada (Placer County, Bolavder). 



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

 a foot high or more, or soruetimes only 2 or 3 inches high and 2 - 3-Howered : radical 



to Sonoma ; also in i\w 



