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CALOCHORTACEAE 



Calochortus excavatus Greene, Pittonia, 3: 71. 1890. 



No. 8350, collected May 30, in damp grassy meadows near 

 Bishop, Inyo county. It was rather plentiful in one meadow, 

 and is from type locality, "Bishop Creek, Inyo County," The 

 leaves are narrow and grass-like, only 2 or 3 mm. wide, bright 

 green, the lower ones commonly about i dm. long. The plants 

 are rather small and slender, the tallest about 2 dm. high. 



CAI.OCHORTUS NUTTAi^Lii T. & G. Pac. R. R. Rep, 2 J 124. 



1855- 

 No. 8328, collected May 23, in coarse granite sand along 

 the edge of the foothills west of Bishop, Inyo county. This is 

 C. niittallii as generally accepted, and as defined by Purdy in 

 Prbc. Cal. Acad, III. Bot. 2: 148. 1901, but does not altogether 

 accord with the original from "summit of Noble's Pass, Sierra 

 Nevada.". That has "stem 2-flowered; leaves very narrowly lin- 

 ear; petals obovate-CLineate, rounded at the summit (white, but 

 yellow at the base), with an oblong dense tuft of hairs on the 

 claw; and just above this a purple spot, with a few scattered 

 hairs.". The petals in our plant have a raised blunt point, the 

 gland is roundish, "covered densely with agglutinated hairs," as 

 described by Purdy. In addition there is a purple, somewhat 

 lunate-shaped spot below the gland, with a yellow and yellow- 

 haired band around the gland except at the base, and above the 

 yellow band a purple somewhat penciled spot. It is possible 

 that the plant called C. leichtlinii is typical niittallii^ and that 

 much of what passes for the latter is unnamed. My 7062, col- 

 lected in 1903 on the slopes of Castle Peak, Nevada county, dis- 

 tributed asC leichtlinii is perhaps typical nuttallii^ judged by 

 the original description. 



