4i8 Farr on British Columbian Plants. 



slender decurved pedicels, the pedicel rarely provided with 

 a lanceolate bracteole near the middle. Perianth tube very 

 short, broadly campanulate, the segments ovate, acute, 

 reflexed at the tip, the three outer (sepals) flat, the three 

 inner (petals) falcate along the margins, wine-colored, the 

 tips green. Stamens six, about one-third the length of the 

 perianth, perigynous ; anthers ovoid, bifid anteriorly, the 

 walls strongly papillose over the upper half. Ovary pro- 

 vided with stomata, broadly ovate below, conical above, 

 terminated by a minute, tri-lobate, stigmatic area. Style 

 none. Berry 4 to 6 lines in diameter, at first obscurely 

 three-angled, later globose, about twelve-seeded, bright red. 

 Seeds oval to obovate, the outer, rounded surface ridged, the 

 raphal surface flat, smooth, white. 



Glacier; flowering specimens, June 30, 1904; fruiting 

 specimens, August 22, 1904. 



The present species and genus were defined by Regel in the 

 "Nouv. Mem. Soc. Nat. Mosc," XI (1859), page 122. The 

 description is reproduced in Mr. J. G. Baker's monograph on 

 the "Asparagaceae," published in the "Journal of the Lin- 

 naean Society," Volume XIV (1875) page 593, in which he 

 implies that the plant was gathered in the flowering state, 

 as he says, "Baccam non vidi" ; but he seems to have over- 

 looked the following sentence in Kegel's description : "Bacca 

 rubra. Semina striata, albo-lutesccntia." On page 592 he 

 describes StcptopusF hrevipes, Baker, which was wanting in 

 flowers, but which had fruit described as "Bacca 3 — 4 

 lin. crassa, scminibus phirihus oblongo-clavatis." Kegel's 

 and Baker's forms are evidently the same. My specimens 

 were gathered aroimd Glacier, B. C, in the Selkirk Moun- 

 tains, at an altitude of 4,093 feet. Baker's S.f brevipes 

 is recorded from "Oregon ad Cascade Mountains, 49° N. 

 lat.. Dr. Lyali." The distribution of Krnhsca Tilingiana is 

 given by Baker as "Sitka, Eschscholtz; Ajan, Tiling; In 

 ditione fluminis Amur, Maximowicz." 



In the Gray Herbarium at Cambridge are specimens 



