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CALOCHORTUS* macrocarpus. 
Long-fruited Calochortus. 
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HEXANDRIA TRIGY NIA. 
Nat. ord. LitiacEz. 
CALOCHORTUS Ph.— Calyx 3-phyllus, herbaceus. Petala 3, 
colorata, majora, intis barbata, supra unguem canaliculatum pulyinata. 
Ovarium superum, 3-loculare, polyspermum ; ovula disticha horizontalia ; 
stigmata petaloidea, complicata. Capsula apice trivalvis, septicidd de- 
hiscens, nunc obtusé trigona oblonga rostrata, nunc triquetra subrotunda. 
Semina plana, serie simplici inserta, test’ membranacea. Herbee bul- 
bose (Americ septentrionalis temperate), foliis ensiformibus, vaginantibus. 
Caules simplices. Flores umbellati v. racemos?, purpured albidive. 
C. macrocarpus ; caule 3-5-phyllo bifloro, petalis preeter fasciculum pilorum 
glabris, capsulis erectis lineari-oblongis. Douglas in Hort. Trans. 
vol. 7. p. 276. tab. 8. 
— Bulbi elongati, tunicis atrobrunneis, separabilibus. Caules 2-3-flori, 
13-2-pedales, erecti, versis fastigium flexuosi, striati, glauct. Folia 3-5, 
ensiformia, convoluta, bast vaginantia, apice sepe sphacelata, striata, 
glauca, caule breviora. Flores 2, terminales, basi bibracteati, bracters 
foliaceis. Pedunculi apice incrassati, cum caule continut, nec articulate. 
Perianthium campanulato-patens, deciduum, estivutione convolutivd. Se- 
pala tria, ovato-lanceolata, acuminatissima, apice sphacelata, margine 
membranacea, petalis longiora, extis viridia, striata, ints amene pur- 
purea, maculd ad basin ocellatd obscura. Petala cuneato-obovata, plana, 
apiculata, amené atro-purpurea, dorso extis strid viridi, intis versus 
basin pallidiora, processubus luteis filamentosis barbata, in medio quorum 
areola adest cordata, pulvinata, pilis brevibus albis apice purpureis den- 
sissime confertis supertecta, ~— Obs. Barba capillamentis constat tortuosis 
corrugatis, apice clavatis, sepé bifidis luteis fistulosis succo luteo repletis, 
é cellulis constantibus minutissimis extis gibbosis, unde superficies sub lente 
videtur aspera. Stamina 6, hypogyna, petalis breviora : filamenta linearia, 
plana, acuminata, erecta, dimidium ovarit longitudinem paululum supe- 
rantia ; anthere erecto-patentes, jilamentorum longitudine, lineares, innate, 
longitudinaliter a latere dehiscentes ; pollen fusco-purpureum, omnium 
maximum, oblongum, coherens, sub aqud sponte dehiscens, et fovillam satis 
“ Calochortus is derived from xza%s, handsome, and yeeros, a kind of 
grass, in reference to the beautiful flowers borne by the grassy herbage of 
the genus. Macrocarpus signifies literally long-fruited, from paxgos, long, 
and xaerds, fruit : the fruit of the other species is short, and roundish. 
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