98 LILIACEAE. 



Calistoga to Monterey in low wet lands. Apr.-May. 



5. C. umbellatus Wood. Stems 3 to 10 in. high, not bulblet-bearing, 

 simple or branching; herbage glaucous; radical leaf solitary, exceeding the 

 inflorescence; flowers 2 to 6 ; sepals oblong, acuminate, greenish-white, or slight- 

 ly tinged with lilac; petals white or slightly lilac-tinged, obovate, or fan- 

 shaped, slightly concave, 6 to 9 lines long; gland covered by an ascending 

 appressed scale, which on its upper (free) margin is lightly fringed; on each 

 Bide of the gland is a hairy area (with a purple spot below it), the petals 

 otherwise naked; stamens % the length of the petals. 



Low wooded hills: Marin Co.; Oakland Hills; Walnut Creek. Apr. 



6. C. maweanus Leicht. Pussy's Ears. Stem mostly simple, 3 to 5 in. 

 high, bearing an umbel of 2 to 4 flowers and with mostly 1 radical leaf (1 ft. 

 long or less and 3 to 8 lines wide) w ? hich much surpasses the inflorescence; 

 sepals oblong or elliptical and acute, or ovate-lanceolate, equaling or much 

 shorter than the petals; these orbicular, obovate or somewhat rhomboidal, with 

 a broadly or abruptly acute apex, 6 to 10 lines long, the upper surface covered 

 with long white or bluish hairs; gland covered above with a narrow trans- 

 verse scale, the petal densely hairy above the scale and naked below the pit. 



San Francisco Bay northward in the Coast Eanges. Apr. 



7. C. albus Dougl. White Globe Tulip. Stem stout, glaucous, branching, 

 1 to 2 ft. high; radical leaves elongated lanceolate, acuminate, 1 to 1% ft. 

 long, V s to 1 in. wide; bracts foliaceous, 3 to 5 in. long; sepals shorter than the 

 petals, ovate, acuminate, greenish-white; petals white, purplish at base, ovate- 

 orbicular, acutish, with scattering long silky yellow hairs above gland, 1 to l x /± 

 in. long; gland lunate, shallow T , with 4 transverse upwardly imbricate scales, 

 fringed with close short yellow or white glandular hairs ; anthers oblong, 

 mucronate; capsule 1 to 2 in. long, */> to 1 in. broad, abruptly short-beaked; 

 seeds brown, pitted. 



Coast Range woods near the coast from Ukiah to Monterey and southward 

 to Southern California. 



8. C. pulchellus Dougl. About 1 ft. high, much branched, each branch 

 terminating in an umbel of 2 or 3 pendulous flowers, the bract surpassing the 

 peduncle; sepals greenish, ovate-lanceolate, shorter than the light yellow 

 petals, which above the gland are covered with scattered hairs, below it 

 smooth and with the margins ciliate; gland placed a little below the center 

 of the petal, the margin of the pit clothed with long and thick hairs. 



Occurring on Mt. Diablo; collected in early days by Douglas at some un- 

 known station and little known since. 



9. C. amabilis I'urdy. Golden Lily Bell. Stem flexuous, dichotomously 

 branching, varying in height from :i few in. (and 2 or 3-flowered) to 1% ft. 

 high (and 10 to 1 2-flowered) ; radical leaves */> to % in. wide, elongated, 

 green and glossy, equaling or exceeding the stem; bracts linear-lanceolate, ex- 

 ceeding or equaling the flowers, diminishing upward, the lowest 4V-> in. long; 

 flowers on nodding pedicels, sub-globose, golden-yellow; sepals sometimes green- 

 ish, elliptic-ovate, abruptly acute, 12 to 15 lines long, a trifle shorter than 

 the Buborbicular petals which are conspicuously ciliate on the margin and strong- 

 ly arched or incurved, their apices overlapping; gland a deeply-set pit (visible 



from the outside as a ridge or convexity) and covered by a dense fringe of 

 appressed yellow hairs growing from the upper margin and which cross each 

 other over the pit; petals otherwise glabrous; anthers oblong, 2 lines long, 

 rather shorter than the filament; capsule elliptical, l 1 /^ in. long, 



