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— Shasta Co. California, A. Wood, 18G6. On tlie divide between 

 Russian and Eel Rivers and northward, Bolander, 1867. Professor 

 Wood has naturally characterized this very striking and handsome 

 plant a^ a new genus, — to which, indeed, it has as good a claim as 

 Dichehstemma or perhaps even Stropholirion. But, however Brodicea 

 be limited, it cannot well fail to include this species, which has wholly 

 the structure of the typical B. grandijlora, only that the tube of the 

 flower is proportionally longer, the scales answering to the other set of 

 stamens much broader, and the color peculiar in the genus, although 

 not unlike that of Stropholirioji. In referring it to Brodicea we may 

 venture to discard the objectionable double-headed specific name, 

 given by the stage-driver, Mr. Buike (who showed the plant to 

 Professor Wood), " in affection for his little daughter." 



Allium occidentale = A. reiiculatum, Hook. FI. Bor.-Am. pro 

 parte, & PI. Ilartw. No. 1995 ; ab A. reticutato Fras. differt bulbo 

 nunquam vaginis reticulatis tecto, segmentis perigonii latioribus, 

 ciistis seu dentibus ovarii brevissimis, etc. — Apparently common in 

 California. 



Aloe yucc^folia (Yucca? parvijiora, Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 

 p. 221) : acaulis ; foliis elongatis angusto-linearibus recurvo-patentibus 

 rio'idis canaliculatis tenuiter striatis kevibus maro;ine Tuccce modo fili- 

 feris ; scapo 2 - 4-pedali scarioso-bracteato ; racemo vel panicula elon- 

 gata ; floribus fasiculatis ; perianthio sequali cylindrico dilute rubro ; 

 filamentis rectis subexsertis ; stylo demum longius exserto ; capsula 

 ovata primum carnosa demum 6-valvi. — S. W. Texas, C. Wright 

 (685, with flowers and mature fruit), 1908 (with unripe fruit, &c.), 

 J. M. Bigelow, ex Torr. Flowers an inch long. Style at length with 

 the exserted portion incurved or geniculate in the flowers developed 

 in Can»bridge Botanic Garden. Fruit and seeds, no less than the 

 leaves, resembling those of Tacca. 



HESPEROCALLIS, Nov. Gen. Liliacearum. 



Perigonium corollinum, infundibuliforme, marcescendo-persistens ; 

 limbo regular! 6-partito tubo longiore, segmentis conformibus oblongo- 

 spathulatis basi attenuatis medio 5 - 7-nervatis. Stamina 6, fauci in- 

 serta : filamenta filiformia, recta : anthera^ lineares, supra basim intror- 

 sum affixas. Ovarium triloculare, loculis multiovulatis: stylus filiformis: 

 stigma depresso-capitatum. Capsula subglobosa, loculicida, polyspeima. 

 Semina compressa, exalata, testa ut videtur subcarnosa molli. — Herba 



