I just came across the following words of wisdom on Calochortus ID: Another peculiar Calochortus I observed high in the mountains, near Anderson Valley, Mendocino County. It was C. luteus var. oculatus, but very large-flowered. The gland, instead of being simply lunate, was doubly so, as if two glands were side by side on the base of each segment and connected. When the glands of Calochortus take such freaks it is hard to say on what the species are to be based. In this case there were hundreds of specimens with doubly lunate glands, with intermediate ones down to the ordinary form. Carl Purdy, "Notes on Liliaceae," Zoe 1 (1890): 243 http://biodiversitylibrary.org/item/14448/… C. luteus var. oculatus S. Watson is a synonym for C. vestae (Purdy) Wallace. Max Withers Oakland CA