caloohortus LILIACE^ 653 



flowers in bracted racemes. Perianth of 3 narrow greenish se- 

 pals and 3 broad more or less concave distinet deciduous petals 

 usually with a conspicuous glandular pit near the base. Stamens 

 6, inserted on the bases of the the segments, included : anthers 

 linear to oblong, attached by the base, longitudinally dehiscent. 

 Ovary sessile, triangular, 3-celled, many-ovuled. Stigmas sessile, 

 recurved, persistent. Capsule membranaceous, 3-angled or 3- 

 winged, mostly septicidally dehiscent. Seeds numerous, in two 

 rows in each cell, somewhat flattened, with a thin membranous 

 white or brownish often loose testa. 



C. Maweanus Leichtlin Baker Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv, 305. Stem 

 flexuous 3-10 inches high, usually branched and 3-10-flowered : leaves 

 glaucous, exceeding the stem, 4-6 line3 wide: bracts lanceolate, an inch 

 long or more : sepals ovate-lanceolate acute or acuminate, purplish : petals 

 a little longer, white, or purplish at base, 6-8 lines long, broadly obovate, 

 acute, somewhat pitted and arched, the broad naked claw covered above 

 by a transverse semicircular scale, the rest of the surface more or less 

 densely covered with long erect white or purplish hairs : anthers lanceolate, 

 acuminate, 2 lines long: capsule oblong-elliptic, acutish. Near the coast, 

 southern Oregon to California. 



Var. roseus Purdy Proc. Calif. Acad. 3d ser. ii, 121. Bulbs with 

 mahogany-colored coats : flowers tinged with rose. Southern Oregon. 



C. elegans Pursh Fl. 240. Stem very slender, 4-8 inches high 1-4- 

 flowered : leaf lanceolate, acuminate, 2-4 lines wide, exceeding the stem: 

 bracts about half the length of the pedicels, acuminate from a base 2 lines 

 wide : sepals ovate, acute, greenish-white outside, purplish at base : petals 

 obovate, obtuse, whitish, or slightly tinged with green, with a purple spot 

 on the claw, thickly covered with rather short soft hairs, except a baml 

 around the margins, which are white on the upper and purple on the lower 

 portion; scale narrow, ascending, deeply fringed, covering about % the 

 width of the claw: anthers long-acuminate: capsule elliptical, rounded at 

 each end. In pine woods, eastern Washington and Idaho. 



C. Lyallii Baker 1. c. C. elegans var. nanus Wood. Stem slender, 

 3- 10 inches high, umbellately 3-5-flowered : leaf lanceolate, 4-6 lines wide, 

 acute, often % longer than the stem: bracts lanceolate, long acuminate, 

 about an inch long: sepals oblong-lanceolate short acuminate, 6-10 lines 

 long, greenish-purple, strongly arched below, the pit thus formed dark 

 purple inside : petals light yellow T to nearly white with purplish base, 

 longer than the sepals, often an inch broad, triangular-ovate, finely erose, 

 rounded and often shortly acuminate at the apex, strongly arched below r , 

 the scale broad and covered with retrorse hairs, the portion above the scale 

 pubescent with short soft hairs except a narrow belt around the apex : fil- 

 aments broad, abruptly narrowed at the apex: anthers lanceolate, long-ac- 

 uminate above, 4 lines long: capsule elliptical 10-12 lines long nodding. 

 On grassy slopes on the highest parts of the Cascade Mountains, Oregon 

 to Brit. Columbia. 



C. Lofobii Purdy 1. c. 122. Stem 3-5 inches high: leaf 3-5 lines wide, 

 longer than the stem, abruptly acute: sepals ovate-lanceolate, acute, 

 greenish with a dark spot below, 6-8 lines long ; petals a little longer, white 

 tinged with green, broadly rhombic-ovate, very deeply pitted, the pit 

 showing as a prominent knob on the back, hairy above the gland : scale 

 very narrow, deeply bordered with long feathery fringe and concealed in 

 the recess of the pit: filaments subulate; anthere oblong, acuminate, 

 ending in a hooked cusp: capsule narrowly beaked. Only known from 

 Mount Jefferson, Oregon. 



