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CALIFORNIA.— SUPPLEMENT. 
[ Tulipacea. 
CALOCHORTUS. Ph. 
Flores erecti, explanati, patentes ; sepala glabra convoluto-acuminata. Petala majora, rotundata, plana, medio 
barbata, basi maculata glabra. Stylus nullus. Stigmata 3. Capsula triangularis coriacea. Semina 
eerie simplici affixa, plana, testa suberosa. — Bulbi tunicati, foliis convoluti-acuminatis rigidis. Lindl. 
1. C. venustiis {Benth.); caule paucifolio subtrifloro, sepalis erectis, petalis prseter fasci- 
culum pilorum glabris basi rubris et versus apicem macula rubra notatis. Benth. in Hort. 
Soc. Trans. N. S. 1. p. 412. t. 15. f. 3. 
Sepals straight. Petals cuneate-subrotund, crispid at the margin, white, yellowish at the base, and then 
furnished with a cuneate blood-red canal whieh is yellow at the apex ; above this, and on the expanded por- 
tion of the petal is a large round blood-red stain. It is a very beautiful species. 
2. C. splendens {Benth.); caule 3-5-floro, sepalis revolutis, petalis intus sparse pilosis in 
parte superiore glabris basi maculatis extus ecostatis. Benth. in Hort. Soc. Trans. I. N. S. 
p. 411. t. 15. f. 1 ; Lindl. Bot. Beg. t. 1676. 
Petals of an uniform lilac colour. It is closely allied to C. venustus, from which, however, it differs not 
only in the colour of its petals, but in its flowers being somewhat smaller, and its sepals rolled back from the 
point ; the arrangement of the hairs upon its petals is also very different. In C. venustus there is, just above 
the base of the petals, an oblong tuft of rather loose hairs, which gradually scatter themselves over the petal 
for a short distance round the tuft ; but in C. splendens the tuft is smaller, and composed of very short firm 
hairs, colleeted into a compact oblong mass, almost resembling a wart, and separated by a smooth interval 
from the scattered hairs of the petal, which are long and numerous. 
3. C. luteus {Dough) caule subtrifloro, foliis convolutis acuminatis pedunculis gracili- 
bus brevioribus, sepalis apice recurvis, petalis cuneatis apice rotundatis medio transverse 
barbatis. Lindl. in Bot. Beg. t. 1567. 
The flowers are rather smaller than in the two preceding species, and of a deep yellow, greenish about the 
middle and at the base, and covered near the middle with red dots. 
4. C. uniflorus; caule humili versus basin 1-3-phyllo subunifloro, pedunculo elongate 
gracili folia superante, sepalis apice patulis, petalis cuneatis apice rotundatis denticulatis 
basi dense barbatis e basi ad medium sparse pilosis superne glabris. (Tab. XCIV.) 
This is most allied to C. elegans, but has very differently shaped sepals and petals, and the stem has 
scarcely any tendency to produce more than a single flower. We omit here C. elegans, macrocarpus, and 
nitidus, said to be from California, for, according to the stations given by Douglas, none of them were found 
in that country : descriptions of them are given in the Flor. Bor. Am. II. p. 1 83. With regard to the variety of 
C. elegans noticed in the Flor. Bor. Am. I. p. 183, as found by Mr Tolmie on the banks of the Walamet 
river, we are now satisfied it is perfectly distinct from either a. or of Douglas, and that it forms a new species, 
vvhich may be called C. Tolmiei ; it is closely allied to C. nitidus, (Dough in Hort. Soc. Trans. VII. t. 9,) 
but the flowers are rather smaller, not in an umbel, but in a racemose panicle, and the cuneate-obovate 
petals are densely bearded to the very apex, much more so than in any other known species of the genus. 
Fig. 1. Petal : — magnified. 
