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portion of gland; capsule nodding; stem low, bulblet-bearing in none of the follow- 

 ing except the first; the radical leaf long and conspicuous, surpassing the inflores- 

 cence. — Star Tulips. 

 Petals lilac, glabrous or nearly so; stem bulblet-bearing at base; open wet meadows. 



4. C. uniflorus. 



Petals white with scant hairs on lower third; woodland plants 5. C. umbellatus. 



Petals white or purplish blue, covered with long erect hairs 6. C. mazveanus. 



Flowers and capsules nodding; petals strongly incurved or arched, the gland transversely 

 crested or hairy; capsule elliptical or broadly oblong, deeply triquetrous, the lobes 

 thin, acute or winged.— Globe Tulips. 

 Petals white; glands lunate, with 4 transverse imbricate scales fringed with short gland- 

 ular hairs 7. C. albus. 



Petals yellow. 



Gland clothed with long thick hairs; petals above gland with scattered hairs 



8. C. pulchellus. 

 Gland bordered with stiff hairs which cross each other; petals above gland glabrous. 



9. C. amabilis. 



1. C. venustus Dougl. White Mariposa Lily. Stem erect, stiff, usually 

 branching, 4 to 10 in. high, 1 to 4-flowered; bulblet at base usually 1; radical 

 leaves 1 or 2, linear, 1 to 3 lines wide, very glaucous; pedicels 2 to 8 in. long; 

 sepals oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 1 to 1% in. long; petals broadly cuneate- 

 obovate, 1 to 1% in. broad, 1 to 2 in. long, white to lilac with an eye-spot 

 in the middle, frequently penciled toward the base, and often with a trans- 

 versely oblong rose-colored blotch near the apex; gland roundish, lunate, 

 or oblong, densely matted with short hairs; filaments dilated, shorter than or a 

 little exceeding the anthers; capsule linear or linear-clavate, 2 to Sy 2 in- 

 long, the sides obliquely and rather closely veined. 



Light sandy soil or in alkaline fields : Coast Eanges ; Great Valley ; Sierra 

 Nevada. 



2. C. splendens Dougl. Mariposa Lily. Stems often bulblet-bearing at 

 base, 1 to 1% ft. high, slender; sepals ovate, acuminate, about equaling the 

 petals; these broadly fan-shaped, clear lilac, with long scattered hairs below 

 the middle, 1 to 1*4 in- long, about as broad as long; gland small and round, 

 covered by a dense mass of short hairs, or absent; filaments 3 times as long as 

 the anthers; capsule linear. 



Eastern Lake and Colusa cos. to Monterey and southward. 



3. C. luteus Dougl. Yellow Mariposa Lily. Stem erect, slender, 

 often branching, 7 to 10 in. high; bulblets enclosed within radical sheath 

 of stem; radical leaves linear, 1 to 3 lines wide; sepals narrowly ovate- 

 lanceolate, acute, yellowish within; petals fan-shaped, as long as broad, with 

 a rather obvious claw, yellow or orange, usually without a central blotch but 

 with penciled lines radiating from gland to center of petal, % to 2 in. long; 

 gland broad, lunate, densely hairy, with ascending matted yellow hairs; 

 above this to middle of petal the hairs few and scattering; stamens about 

 equaling style, the filaments not dilated or slightly toward the base, a little 

 longer than the anthers; capsule attenuate from a broad triangular base, 1>- 

 t<- 2 in. long. 



Coast Ranges, foothills and low rolling gravelly or dry land. May. 



4. C. uniflorus H. & A. Stem low, flexuous, 4 to S in. high, with 1 to 4 

 bulblets beneath the surface; radical leaves 4 to (J lines broad, exceeding 

 the stem; bracts linear-lanceolate, long, and conspicuous; flowers 2 to 10 in 

 1 to 3 umbels, on long flexuous pedicels which are 3 to 1 in. long; sepals ovate- 

 lanceolate, greenish-lilac; petals lilac, cuneate, somewhat truncate, denticulate, 

 10 to 12 lines long, naked above, sparingly hairy immediately above the gland; 

 this shallow, not pitted, with a narrow triangular appressed scale. 



