Calochurtus. LILIACE^. 2*^3 



leaf equalling or exceeding the stem, 4 to 12 lines broad; bracts linear-lanceolate, 

 exceeding or equalling the flowers : sepals yellow or greenish, 8 to 12 lines long, a 

 little shorter than the yellow or orange oblong- or broadly ovate acutish petals, Avhich 

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

 deep pit projecting upward and covered by the stiff appressed yellow hairs growing 

 on the upper margin : anthers broad, obtuse or acutish : capsule elliptical, 12 to 15 

 lines long and 6 to 8 broad, obtuse. — Wood, Proc. Philad. Acad. 18G8, 1G8. Ci/clo- 

 hothra pulchella, Benth. 1. c, t. 14, fig. 1 ; Lindl. liot. lieg. t. 1GG2. 

 Ill the Coast Ranges from Monterey to Mendocino County. 



* * Flowers cavijoanulate tv'itli less incurved and less arched petals, erect when 



open: pedicels slender, recurved in fruit : stem low. 



-1— Flowers yellow. 



3. C. Benthami, Baker. Eesembling the last : low and slender (3 to 6 inches 

 high), 2 - G-tiowered : leaves much 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, 6 to 9 lines long. — Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 xiv. 304. Cyclohothra elegans, var. lutea, Benth. PI. Hartw. 338. C. nitidus, Torr. 

 Pacif. E. Ptep. iv. 146, not Dough; Wood, L c. 1G9. 



Ill the Sierra Nevada, from JMariposa to Butte Counties. 



-1- -1- Floicers white or light lilac. 

 •H- Petals covered ivith hairs and viostly ciliate. 



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

 usually branched and 3-6-flowered: leaves glaucous, exceeding the stem, 4 to 6 

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

 at least at base, 6 to 8 lines long, exceeding the purplish sepals, broadly obovate, 

 acute, somewhat pitted and arched, the broad naked claw covered above by a trans- 

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

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

 capsule oblong-elliptic, acutish. — Baker, 1. c. 305, under C. elegans. C ijclobothra 

 elegans, Torr. Pacif. E. Eep. iv. 146. Calochortus elegans, Hook. f. Bot. Mag. 

 t. 5976. 



Near the coast from San Francisco (at Punta de los Reyes, Bigeloiu) northward to Humboldt 

 Count}' {Rattan) ; Butte County, near Chico, Mrs. Bklwell. 



5. C. ceeruleus, Watson. Low and very slender (3 to 6 inches high), the soli- 

 tary leaf (1 to 3 lines broad, strongly nerved) much exceeding the simple umbel- 

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

 1^ inches long or less : sepals 6 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 transversely divided by a broad semi- 

 circular fringed scale which is closely appressed over the up[)er half ; the rest of the 

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

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

 xiv. 263. C Ijclobothra elegans, var., Benth. PI. Hartw. 338 (n. 1988). Cyclohothra 

 cmrulea, Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad. ii. 4. G. glaucus, Eegcl, Act. Hort. Petrop. 

 iii. 285 1 



In the Sierra Nevada, from Placer to Plumas Counties. 



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

 wide) : flowers greenish white, pur^ilish at base ; petals not ciliate on the margin or 

 sparingly so, and the upper part of the gland covered by a very narrow dci-ply 

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

 240 ; Douuh in Trans. Hort. Soc. vii. 278, t. 9, fig. B. 



