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oblong, a little narrowed at the apex, 4 or 5 mm. wide, marked 

 by the dark midvein, which in the outer segments is prolonged 

 into a slight cusp: staminodia colored like the segments or 

 paler, the free portion 4 mm. long, i mm. longer than the sta- 

 mens, the dorsal side rounded and slightly tumid at the base, 

 the edges turned in and parallel so as to almost close over the 

 stamens: stamens 3, the filaments adhering to the perianth tube 

 throughout, only the oblong, pointed pale yellow anthers 3 mm. 

 long free: style shorter than the anthers, extending only to the 

 top of the perianth tube, about i mm. in diameter, gradually en- 

 larged above, the slightly 3-lobed stigma barely 2 mm. 



A specimen collected in full flower May 5, 1902, about 8 

 miles from Chico on the Oroville road, and probably from type 

 locality is essentially the same, differing in having blunter an- 

 tTiers which equal the staminodia, and the pistil is almost as 

 long as the stamens. This plant grew in rich soil in an open 

 field, the flowers of a deep violet. 



No. 7942, collected June i, near Shasta Retreat, Siskiyou 

 county, was in full flower, growing in loose rich soil in woods 

 recently burned over. It differs from 7862 in having paler 

 flowers on shorter pedicels, the staminodia with apices slightly 

 curved back, extending 3 mm. beyond the anthers; the anthers 

 I mm. long: pistil as long as the stamens, the style somewhat 

 three-angled, the slightly enlarged stigmatic end i mm. across. 



CalochorTus luteus oculatus S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 14: 

 265. 1879. 

 No. 7845, collected May 25, on dry gravelly hills in the 

 western part of Redding, Shasta county, where it is locally plen- 

 tiful. This is the pale flowered form, the flowers nearly white 

 with a small dark eye, surrounded by a bright )'ellow band. 



SMILAC^AOEAE 



Smii^ax caufornica (A. DC.) A. Gray, Bot. Cal. 2: 186. 1880. 

 Smilax rotundifolia var. Californica A. DC. Monog. Phan. 



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