calochortds LILIACEvE 655 



rounded at the apex, white above, yellowish below, with a small round or 

 oblong gland which is densely covered with agglutinated hairs, a few hairs 

 scattered above: anthers oblong, obtuse, more or less sagittate : capsule 

 lanceolate, 1-2 inches long, erect. Eastern Oregon to Nevada and Nebraska. 



C. Howellii Watson Proc. Am. Acad, xxiii, 266. Bulb large, 6-12 

 lines in diameter, very deep-seated : stem stiffly erect, 1-2 feet high, urn- 

 bellately 1-3-flowered,' sometimes branched: radical leaf about a foot long, 

 4-6 lines wide, cauline leaf narrow, 3-6 inches long, long acuminate : bracts 

 long acuminate from a broad base, 1-2 inches long : flowers open-cam panu- 

 late: sepals broad lanceolate, acuminate, about 6 lines long, one margin 

 hyaline, purplish outside : petals cuneate-obovate rounded at the apex, 

 1-1% inches long, white with dark base, sparsely bearded with short crisp 

 hairs inside : gland transversely oblong, densely covered with yellow hairs : 

 anthers oblong, acute and apiculate, about 3 lines long: capsule elliptical, 

 8-10 lines long, erect. In moist places near Waldo southern Oregon. 



C. longifoarbatus Watson 1. c. xvii, 381. Stem slender, 10-15 inches 

 high, strictly erect, umbellately one- to several-flowered: radical leaf 

 broadly linear, acute, nearly as long as or longer than the stem; cauline 

 linear and bract-like : bracts linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 1-2 inches long: 

 sepals rather narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, 8-10 lines long, greenish 

 lilac within : petals lavender-color, lighter below with a dark-purple circu- 

 lar band above the gland, cuneate-obovate, about an inch long, the apex 

 rounded to almost truncate, denticulate: gland small, roundish, covered 

 with dense matted brown hairs with some long silky hairs above and be- 

 side it, the margins not ciliate : filaments slender, dilated downward, 2-3 

 times as long as the narrowly ovate obtuse anthers: capsule elliptical, 

 9-30 lines long, erect. In low grassy grounds, eastern Oregon and Wash- 

 ington near the base of the Cascade Mountains. 



C. pavonaceus Fernald Bot. Gaz. xix, 335. Stem slender, strictly 

 erect, 1-2 feet high : radical leaf lanceolate, not channeled, 1-1)^ feet long, 

 cauline bract-like, 3-4 inches long : bracts subulate, 1-3 inches long : sepals 

 purplish, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, an inch long: petals cuneate-obo- 

 vate, 15-18 lines long, lavender-color to purple, with a circular band above 

 the small round gland which is covered with densely matted yellow hairs, 

 the margins sparsely ciliate, the lower third sparingly bearded with silky 

 hairs: filaments slender, winged; anthers 3-5 lines long, shorter than the 

 filaments: capsule elliptical, acutely angled and strongly beaked, erect. 

 In low meadows near Pullman, Washington. 



C. macrocarpus Dougl. Trans. Hort. Soc. vii, 276, t. 8. Stem stout, 

 erect and rigid, 1-2 feet high, one- to several- flowered : radical leaf deeply 

 channeled, a foot or more long; cauline 3-5, narrow and convolute, 3-6 

 inches long: sepals lanceolate, acuminate, 15-18 lines long, purplish with a 

 dark base inside, sometimes spotted and hairy, with a broad scarious mar- 

 gin : petals cuneate-obovate, 1)^-2 inches long and half as wide, purple, 

 with a greenish line down the centre, the lower third above the gland spar- 

 ingly bearded with glaudular hairs : gland oblong, densely hairy : anthers 

 lanceolate, obtuse 4-6 lines long, about as long as the filaments : capsule 

 lanceolate, attenuate upward, 1-2 inches long, erect. On dry or sandy 

 plains in the interior, California to Brit. Columbia. 



Order XCVII CONVALLARIACE^E Link. Handb. i, 184. 



Scapose or ]eafy-stemmecl plants with simple or branched 

 rootstocks or bulbs, mostly broad parallel-veined leaves and 

 numerous or solitary flowers in terminal racemes or panicles. 

 Perianth inferior, 4-6-lobed or parted. Stamens 6, hypogyn- 

 ous, or borne on the perianth: anthers introrsely or exextrorsely 



