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duplicate, at least in the dried state, glabrous on both surfaces, rather 

 prominently and numerously nerved : scajje 5 to 6 dm. high, few- 

 branched above, terete, glabrous, bearing about 4 bracts : pedicels 1 cm. 

 or less in length, jointed below the middle : flowers yellow : perianth 

 about 12 mm. long; divisions narrowly oblong, 3-nerved ; mature fruit 

 not seen. — Mexico. State of Oaxaca : Sierra de San Felipe, altitude 

 1830 m., 6 August, 1894, C. G. Pringle, no. 5757 (hb. Gr.). 



Mr. Pringle's plant above cited was in the Gray Herbarium referred 

 by the writer to Anthei'icum Hamboldtii, Hemsley {Phalangium cilia- 

 turn, HBK., Nov. Gen. & Sp. i. 276, &, vii. t. 676), but that species is 

 a native of South America, first collected near Caracas, Venezuela, and 

 has straight leaves 10 to 13 cm. long, 6 to 7 mm. broad, and is said to 

 have white flowers. 



Anthericum durangense. Roots tuberous, fascicled : leaves basal, 

 lanceolate, 1.5 to 2.5 dm. long, 1.5 to 2 cm. broad, acuminate, acute, 

 ciliate, dark green and glabrous on both surfaces : scape 4 to 5 dm. high, 

 simple or branched, glabrous, or slightly hirtellous, usually unibracteate : 

 floral bracts ovate, mostly acuminate, hyaline, nerved, greenish-white : 

 pedicels jointed : perianth yellow, or yellowish-white in the dried state ; 

 divisions at the period of authesis about 1.5 cm. long, 3-nerved. — 

 Mexico. State of Durango: near El Salta, altitude 2440 to 2650 m., 

 12 July, 1898, E. W. Nelson, no. 4544 (hb. U. S. Nat. Mus., and 

 bb. Gr.). 



Var. trachycaulum. Leaves in outline and size like the type, 

 yellowish-green, ciliolate-scabrellous on the margins : scape hirtellous 

 even to the flowers : perianth somewhat smaller than in the species 

 proper, about 1 cm. in length : capsule 1 cm. long, glabrous. — Mexico. 

 State of Durango: Ramos to Inde, 11-14 August, 1898, E. W. Nelson, 

 no. 4706 (hb. U. S. Nat. Mus., and hb. Gr.). 



Anthericum Nelsonii. Roots tuberous, fascicled : leaves basal, 

 narrowly lanceolate, 4 to 9 cm. long, 3 to 7 mm. broad, glabrous on 

 both surfaces, minutely scabrellous on the subcartilaginous margins : 

 scape 1 to 2 dm. high, glabrous, naked or bearing a single greenish-white 

 nerved bract near or somewhat above the middle, terminated by 1 to 3 

 flowers : floral bracts scarious, greenish-white, nerved : pedicels 0.5 to 

 1 cm. in length, jointed in the middle : perianth yellow or in the dried 

 state yellowish-white; divisions 8 to 10 mm. long, 3-nerved, obtusish or 

 somewhat rounded at the apex : stamens nearly or quite as long as the 

 perianth ; anthers free : capsule about 1 cm. long. — Mexico. State 

 of Chihuahua: base of Mt. Mohinora, 12.8 km. from Guadalupe y Calvo, 



