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at this place in May, 1882, 1341 Parish, which accurately match 

 Palmer's specimens in the Gray Herbarium. My No. 1857, 

 June 14, 1886, collected at Cox's Ranch in the same region, is 

 probably the same, but my subsequent distributions under the 

 name of C. Palmeri are forms of C. invenustus. The collections 

 above cited appear to be the only ones that have been made of 

 this still little-known species. It is best recognised by what is 

 rather a glandular blotch, than a well defined gland. 

 V Calochortus Dunnii, Purdy, 1. c. 147, t, 19, f. 14. 



Stems slender, not bulbiferous at base, 3-10 dm. high; 

 leaves narrow, folded, shorter than the stem ; bracts short; sepals 

 ovate-acute yellowish green, faintly purple spotted near the base 

 within, narrowly scariously margined, about half as long as the 

 petals; petals broadly cuneate, rounded above and erose, 2.5 cm. 

 broad and as long, white with a brown, ragged transverse band 

 crowning the gland; gland round 3 mm. in diameter, densely 

 matted with short yellow hairs, a few of which are scattered on 

 either side; anthers light yellow, mucronulate, 3 mm. long, on 

 hyaline margined filaments of equal length; capsule acnte or at 

 most shortly beaked. 



Type collected near Jxilian, San Diego County, by Geo. W. 

 Dunn. Described from specimens of Mr. Dunn's collecting, 

 co^mmunicated by Mr. Purdy. 



y Calochortus invenustus, Greene, Pitt. 2:71. Purdy, 

 1. c. 145. 



Stems 2-5 dm. high, bulbiferous at base; leaves narrow; 

 bracts linear short ; sepals ovote-oblong, shortly accuminate, 

 striate and scarious-margined, the tips not recurved, shorter 

 than the petals; petals about 3 cm. long, obovate-cuneate 

 the rounded summit centrally apiculate, dull white, tinged 

 greenish and purplish, the short claw purple; gland oblong 

 covered with light hairs, and with a few scattered hairs near; 

 anthers 5-7 mm. long, obtuse at apex, yellow, on narrowly 

 margined filaments a little shorter; capsule 4 cm. long by i cm. 

 wide, acute. 



Common on dry slopes in open coniferous forests in the San 

 Bernardino (Bear Valley) and San Jacinto (Strawberry Valley, 

 Tauquitz Valley; Hall) Mountains, at 6,000-8,900 ft. alt. Oc- 

 casionally grows also in damp meadows, according to Mr. Hall. 



The type was collected by Dr. Greene, June 25, 1889, in 



