LILY FAMILY. 



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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 

 transverse scale, the petal densely hairy above the scale and naked 

 below the pit. 



San Francisco Bay northward in the Coast Ranges. Inverness, 

 J. N. LeConte. Apr. 



7. C. albus Dougl. White Globe Tulip. Stem stout, glau- 

 cous, branching, 1 to 2 ft. high; radical leaves elongated lanceolate, 

 acuminate, 1 to 1£ ft. long, £ 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, with scattering long silky 

 yellow hairs above gland, ovate-orbicular, acutish, 1 to 1\ in. long; 

 gland lunate, shallow, 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. 



Woods of the Const Ranges near the coast from Ukiah, Sonoma, 

 and Niles, to the Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey, 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 and 

 little known since. 



Var. amabilis (C. amabilis Purdy). Golden Lily Bell. Stem 

 flexuous, dichotomously branching, varying in height from a few 

 in. (and 2 or 3-flowered) to If ft. high (and 10 to 12-flowered); 

 radical leaves ^ to | in. wide, elongated, green and glossy, equaling 

 or exceeding the stem; bracts linear-lanceolate, exceeding or equaling 

 the flowers, diminishing upward, the lowest 4£ 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 snorter 

 than the suborbicular petals which are conspicuously ciliate on the 

 margin and strongly arched or incurved, their apices overlapping; 

 gland a deeply-set pit (visible from the outside as a ridge or con- 

 vexity) 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, 1\ in. long. — North 

 Coast Ranges, northward to Ukiah; Sonoma; Green Valley (Solano 

 Co.); Vaca Mountains. Apr. Also called Cat's Ears and Fairy 

 Lantern. 



o. ODONTOSTOMUM Torr. 

 Stems flexuous, branching, from a corm. Leaves mostly radical, 



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