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



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

 10—18 in. high, 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 — lj£ in. 

 long.— Open plains and hillsides. May, June. 



7. C. vcn list us, 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 

 broivnish 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. (Juaniash (Pursh). Scape 1—2 ft. high: raceme loosely 10—20- 

 flowered; pedicels 3^ — 1 in. long, shorter than the narrow bracts: 11. dark 

 blue to very pale, 7 — 15 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. pomeridianuin (Ker), Kunth. Bulb large, long, densely and 

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



