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# * * Flowers open campanulate, both these and the capsules erect. 



6. C. luteus, Dougl. Leaves all very narrow, not conspicuous: stem 

 1018 in. nigh, 1 3-flowered; sepals about equalling the petals, narrowly 

 lanceolate, acuminate, erect, greenish yellow and purplish, with a brown 

 spot at base: petals broadly fan-shaped, 1 in. long, greenish yellow, 

 marked with brown-purple and slightly hairy in the middle portion; 

 gland broad, rounded or somewhat lunate, densely covered with ascend- 

 ing yellow hairs, and with some scattered spreading ones surrounding 

 it: anthers yellow, linear, obtuse: capsule attenuate upward, 1 1^ in. 

 long. Open plains and hillsides. May, June. 



7. C. Yenustus, Benth. Habit of the preceding; foliage the same: 

 campanulate perianth twice as large, white or pale cream-color suffused 

 with lilac above, and with a conspicuous red-purple spot near the top, a 

 brownish spot overarched with yellow in the centre, and a brownish base; 

 gland large, oblong, densely hairy and surrounded with scattered hairs. 

 From Napa Co. southward, in the inner ranges of mountains. 



8. C. splendens, Dougl. Like the last in habit, though more slender, 

 branching, and with more numerous flowers: sepals strongly recurved: 

 petals deep lilac-purple, with scattered white hairs below the middle, and 

 a round densely hairy gland: anthers purple. Hills at the western base 

 of Mt. Diablo near Danville, and southward. June. 



5. CAMASSIA, Lindl. Scape and linear carinate leaves from a 

 tunicated bulb. Flowers in a simple scarious-bracted raceme. Perianth 

 of 6 distinct and similar oblanceolate 3 7-nerved segments, nearly 

 rotate-spreading. Stamens 6 on the base of the perianth; filaments 

 filiform-subulate; anthers linear-oblong, versatile. Style slender, trifid. 

 Capsule thick-membranaceous, 3-lobed and -angled, loculicidally 3-valved. 

 Seeds several in each cell, ovate, more or less compressed and angled, 

 with thin black shining testa: 



1. C. (Juamush (Pursh). Scape 12 ft. high: raceme loosely 10 20- 

 flowered; pedicels % 1 i Q - long, shorter than the narrow bracts: fl. dark 

 blue to very pale, 715 lines long. Point Reyes, Bigelow. 



6. CHLOROGALUM, Kunth. Tuft of radical linear carinate leaves 

 and paniculately branching stem from a fibrous-coated bulb. Branches 

 of panicle loosely racemose. Perianth white, or with a purplish tinge, 

 persistent, remaining twisted over the growing and mature ovary. Peri- 

 anth-segments distinct, ligulate. Stamens 6, adnate to base of segments; 

 anthers versatile. Ovary subglobose; ovules 2 in each cell ; style filiform 

 slightly 3- cleft. Capsule broadly turbinate, 3-lobed, loculicidal. Seeds 

 obovate, with close thin somewhat rugose testa. 



1. C. pomeridiaiium (Ker), Kunth. Bulb large, long, densely and 

 coarsely fibrous-coated: stem and spreading panicle 2 5 ft. high: leaves 



