

CATALOGUE OP SPECIES. 201 



G-yrostachys romanzoffiana (Cham.) Linmra, iii. 32 (1828), under Spiranthes; 

 MacMillau, Metasp. Minn. Val. 171 (1892). Type locality, "in alveo turfoso cojival- 

 liuui hiftmorum UnalaschcsB passim." 



In and near Whitney Meadows (Noa. 1633, 1713). 



Epipactis gigantea Hook. Fl. Bor. Amer. ii. 202 (1839)— Dougl. MS. Type Tonal- 

 ities, "on the suhalpino regions of the Bine and Rocky mountains," and "Columbia 

 River, about Fort Vancouver." 



Collected in Furnace Creek Canon, Funeral Mountains (Nos. 224, 581), and in 

 Mill Creek (No. 809), and Cottonwood (No. 970) canons, Panamint Mountains. 



Habenaria elegans (Lindl.) Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 285 (1835), under Platanihera; 

 Boland. Cat. 29 (1870). Type locality, "in America boreali occidentals M 

 In the valley of the Kaweah River (No. 1333). 



Habenaria leucostachys (Lindl.) Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 288 (1835), under Platan- 

 thera; Wats. Bot. Cal. ii. 134 (1880). Type locality, "in ora occidental! America) 

 septentrionalis." 



In the valley of Kaweah River (No. 1335), near Mammoth (No. 1822), and in So. 

 quoia Park (No. 2096). 



IRIDACEiE. 



Iris missouriensis Nntt. Journ. Acad. Phila. vii. 58 (1834). Type locality, 

 "towards the sources of the Missouri." 

 Black Cafion, White Mountains (No. 1795). 



Sisyrinchium bellum Wats. Proc. Amer. Acad. xii. 277 (1877). Type locality 

 not given; range, "throughout California and to the Columbia River." 



In Furnace Creek Canon (No. 225); in a marsh about one-half mile south of the 

 Devil Hole, Ash Meadows; and at Mountain Spring, Charleston Mountains. 



AMARYLLIDACEiE. 



Agave utahensis Engelm. Bot. King Surv. 497 (1871). Typo locality, "about 

 St. George, Utah." 



The first specimen of this interesting species of m«scal was brought in by Mr. F. 

 Stephens from the mountains east of Resting Springs Valley, at a point several kilo- 

 meters north of Resting Springs. This locality lies within the State of California. 

 The plant was afterwards seen in great abundance near Mountain Springs, in the 

 Charleston Mountains, Nevada (No. 378), growing in the lower portion of the pifion 

 belt. One tuft was seen here with 42 well-developed heads, besides many smaller 

 ones, growing from a single root. Dr. Merriam found it also on the west slope of the 

 Beaverdam Mountains in Utah. 



LILIACEJB. 



Smilacina stellata (L.) Sp. PL i. 316 (1753), under Canvallaria; Desf. Ann. 

 Mus. Par. ix. 52 (1807). Type locality, "in Canada." 

 Near Willow Creek, Panamint Mountains (No. 960). 



Smilacina amplexicaulis Nutt. Journ. Acad. Phtla. vii. 58 (1834). Type locality, 

 ''in the valleys of the Rocky Mountains, about the sources of the Columbia river." 



Near Mineral King, Sierra Nevada (No. 1440). 



Yucca arboresceus (Torr.) Pac. R. Rep. iv. 147 (1857), as T. draconis'arborcsccn*; 

 Trelease, Third Rep. Mo. Bot. Gard. 163 (1892). Type locality, "sandy and gravelly 

 plains west of the Colorado, California." This species was subsequently described l 

 as ¥. brevifolia, a name under which it has passed until recently. 



The distribution of this remarkable plant, the tree yucca, in the desert region 



lEngolm. in Wats. Bot. King Surv. 496 (1871). 





