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twelve to eighteen inches high; leaves one to two inches long, 
oblanceolate to obovate, quickly contracted into a short-margined 
petiole, finely and closely laciniate-dentate, thick; bracts and 
adjoining pedicels glandular pubescent; flowers five-merous, 
large or very large; anthers small one and one-half lines long and 
blunt, purple-margined and white in the centre; stamen tube 
about a line long, and deep purple; bracts hyaline, six lines 
long and lanceolate acuminate. or oblanceolate, petiolate, and 
green and leaf-like. 
Another form collected by me at Soda Springs, Sierra County, 
Cal., July 27, 1881, answers to var. /effreyz, K. Brandegee. 
If I were disposed I could certainly make at least three new 
species out of my material fully as good as any that Dr. Gray has 
described, but I cannot resist the conviction that there is but one 
polymorphous species whose separation even into varieties is 
warranted only by the desire to arrange the forms in some kind of | 
succession. 
EREMOCRINUM, Nov. gen. 
This genus belongs to the Liliaceze, subtribe Anthericeae, 
and appears to be nearest to Anthericum, though it has some 
characters in ‘common with Leucocrinum and Glyphosperma 
Watson. Perianth rotate, segments three-nerved, white and 
thin, nerves green; anthers linear, blunt, lobed at base, erect, 
basifixed and edge to ovary, smooth; filaments linear, broader at 
base, straight, smooth; slender style elongated, enlarged and 
capitate at apex; capsule oblong and bluntly lobed, cells appar- 
ently two-seeded; pedicels rather stout and jointed near the base; 
flowers racemose spicate; roots many, long and slender, fleshy, 
some horizontal; rootstock very short and erect. . 
EREMOCRINUM ALBOMARGINATUM. This is Hesperanthes 
albomarginata Jones, Zoe, ii, 251. The only change I would 
make is in the anthers and filaments which I find are not 
pubescent. I have not yet the mature fruit of this plant. From 
the first I felt sure that it was a new genus and I withheld it 
from publication for about a year hoping to be able to decide the 
matter, but being unable to satisfy myself I finally published it 
as Hesperanthes, though I knew it did not agree with that genus 
