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glaberrima ; caiile foliato bipedali e " bulbo eduli " (an cormo ?) ; 

 foliis linearibus elongatis crassis planis margine insigniter undulatis ; 

 racerao paucifloro ; pedicellis brevibus bractea scariosa suffultis cum 

 Hore articulatis. 



Hesperocallis UNDULATA. — Desert plains at Je?sup Rai)id?, 

 Arizona or New Mexico ; " the bulb eaten by Indians," Prof. New- 

 berry. Gravelly plains at Fort Mohave, Dr. J. G. Cooper. Flower 

 2 inches long. Capsule half an inch or more in length, apparently 

 thickish. The seeds seen not fully ripe, but evidently with a soft or 

 rather fleshy-coriaceous testa. The plant appears to be most related 

 to Hemerocallis, and the generic name is intended to suggest that atiin- 

 ity, along with the far western, instead of eastern habitat. The " bulb," 

 whatever it may prove to be, did not accompany the specimens of 

 either collector. 



Nakthecium ossifragrum, Linn., var. occidentale. Swamps 

 at Red Mountains, Humboldt Co., Bolander. An interesting discovery 

 in a geographical aspect, this, with the recent detection of a new species 

 (iV! Asiaticum, Maxim.) in .Japan, greatly extending the range of the 

 genus. While the Japanese species, by its narrow sepals, shortish 

 anthei's, and shorter more crisped wool of the filaments, most ap- 

 proaches N. Americanum, the present plant, with loose raceme and 

 broadish leaves, closely resembles the W. European plant ; from 

 which it seems to differ only in the rather broader, and perhaps larger, 

 divisions of the perianth. The position of the bractlet varies, as it also 

 does in the other forms. 



Veratrum fimbriatum: floribus fere pollicem diametro insigne, 

 perianthii phyllis obovato-cuneatis supra unguem brevem latum com- 

 posite longeque fimbriatis ; foliis V. viridi similibus, majoribus sesqui- 

 pedalibus. — On the undulating plains west of the Redwoods in Men- 

 docino County, Sept., 1865, Bolander. The flowers of this most re- 

 markable species are apparently greenish-white, with two darker spots 

 at the base of the lamina. 



Hemicarpha occidentalis : pallida; capitulis solitariis binisve 

 ovatis vel subglobosis hystricinis ; squamis e basi ovata scariosa costa 

 valida percursa in acumen patulum rigidum sequilongum productis 

 achenium cum squaraula interna ovata eroso-truncata vel excisa ter 

 longioribus. — Common in Yosemite Valley, Bolander. This appar- 

 ently grows, just as does H. suhsquarrosa in the Eastern United States, 

 in company with Cyperus injlexus. Heads much thicker than those 



