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narrow; bracts short, linear; sepals broadly lanceolate, purplish 

 green and strongly ribbed exteriorly, within yellow, with 1-2 

 conspicuous red-purple lunate markings near the base; petals 

 broadly obovate-cuneate; clear lemon yellow, with a narrow 

 horizontal red-purple marking across the center, yellow hairy up 

 to this mark; gland circular, brown and hairy; anthers yellow 

 obtuse, I cm. long, on filaments of the same length; capsule 

 2. 5-3- 5 cm. long. 



Bushy hills from Mill Creek in the San Bernardino Moun- 

 tains (alt. 3,500 ft.) to the coast of San Diego County. Mr. 

 Purdy is in error in calling this a desert species. All the stations 

 named by him are on the seaward side of the mountains, which 

 may be taken as the extreme inland boundaries of the species. 

 It is a much commoner plant in San Diego County than in 

 Riverside and San Bernardino. 



The character is drawn from fresh specimens of the Mill 

 Creek plant, and will be seen to differ considerably from Mr. 

 Purdy's description, which was based on a plant collected at 

 at Laguna, San Diego County, by Mr. D. Cleveland. This 

 indicates a considerable degree of variation, and these plants, 

 perhaps, might better be left as a variety of C luteus ; but I 

 prefer, at least for the present, to follow Mr. Purdy's disposition- 

 True C. luteiis does not occur probably south of Monterey ; 

 Mr. Purdy's San Diego reference being founded on an appar- 

 ently erronious label. 



\/ Calochortus splendens, Dougl. ex. Benth. Trans. Hort. 

 Soc. Ser. 2, 1:411, t. 15, f. 1. Watson, 1. c. 266. Purdy, 1. c. 143. 

 Stem single, 36 dm. high, usually branched above, bulbi- 

 ferous at base; sepals lanceolate-accuminate, j^ellowish, with an 

 oval purple spot near the base within; petals obovate-cuneate, 

 3-4 cm. high and of greater width, finely erose at summit, light 

 lilac with a small purple blotch at base surrounding the roundish 

 densely hairy gland, the lower third sparsely hairy to, but not 

 below, the gland; anthers dark purple, obtuse, i cm. long on 

 filaments of the same length or shorter; stigmas 2 mm. long; 

 capsule slender. 



Common on bushy hills or mesas in the interior, and ascend- 

 ing the San Bernardino Mountains to 5.000 ft. alt.; north only 

 to Santa Barbara, according to Purdy, but to Lake and Colusa 

 Counties according to Jepson. 



