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A common and very characteristic plant of the mountains of the northern part 
of the State, often thickly covering large areas of open marshy land. It is some 
times eaten by sheep, with fatal results. The common name given in the books is 
“false hellebore,’”? but in New Mexico it is always known as ‘“‘skunk cabbage,”’ 
although it is very unlike the plant which bears that name in the eastern United 
States. ° 
2. SCHOENOCAULON A. Gray. 
Low plant with a slender scape from a black fibrous-coated elongated bulb; leaves 
all radical, pale green, long, grasslike; flowers perfect, pale. green, almost sessile in 
a spikelike raceme; capsules about 12 mm. long, with 4 to 6-seeded cells. 
1. Schoenocaulon drummondii A. Gray; Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beechey Voy. 388. 
1841. 
Schoenocaulon tecanum Scheele, Linnaea 25: 262. 1852. 
TyPE Locauity: Southwestern Texas. 
RanGeE: Western Texas and southern New Mexico to Mexico. 
New Mexico: Ten miles west of Roswell (Wooton). Dry hills and plains. 
3. ANTICLEA Kunth. 
Glabrous herbs from tunicated bulbs, the stems scapose, or bearing a few leaves; 
flowers of medium size, ochroleucous, greenish; perianth segments similar, each bear- 
ing an obcordate gland near the base; inflorescence open, loose, few-flowered. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
Inflorescence paniculate, widely branched, glaucous; pedicels slen- 
der, divergent, 2 or more times the length of the subtending 
bracts; petals about 5 mm. long.....................-...-- 1. A. porrifolia. 
Inflorescence racemose, sometimes with a few short branches below, 
green; pedicels stout, erect or ascending, of about the same 
length as the subtending bracts; petals 5 to 8 mm. long. 
Perianth segments 7 to 8 mm. long, 7 to 13-nerved..........-- 2. A, elegans. 
Perianth segments 5 to 6 mm. long, 3 to 7-nerved .....-.....-.. 3. A. coloradensis. 
1. Anticlea porrifolia (Greene) Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 3Q: 273. 1903. 
Zygadenus porrifolius Greene, Bull. Torrey Club 8: 123. 1881. 
TypE tocairy: ‘‘Mogollon Mountains, near the summits,’?’ New Mexico. Type 
collected by Greene in 1881, 
Rance: Southwestern New Mexico to Chihuahua, 
New Mexico: Mogollon Mountains; Lookout Mines. Mountains, in the Canadian 
Zone. 
2. Anticlea elegans (Pursh) Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 30: 273. 1903. 
Zygadenus elegans Pursh, Fl. Amer. Sept. 241. 1814. 
Zygadenus dilatatus Greene, Pl. Baker. 1: 51. 1901. 
TypPE LocaLity: ‘‘On the waters of the Cokahlaishkit river, near the Rocky 
mountains.”’ 
RanGE: Alaska and Saskatchewan to Nevada and New Mexico. 
New Mexico: Chama; Santa Fe and Las Vegas mountains; Baldy; White Moun- 
tains. Damp woods, in the Canadian and Hudsonian zones. 
8. Anticlea coloradensis Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 30: 273. 1903. 
Zygadenus coloradensis Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 27: 534. 1900. 
TYPE Locauity: Idaho Springs, Colorado. 
RANGE: Utah and Colorado to northwestern New Mexico. 
New Mexico: Tunitcha Mountains (Standley 7554). Meadows in the mountains, - 
in the Transition Zone. 
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