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ing' pedicels and much larger flowers with very obtuse segments. The 

 stamens are only about two-thirds the length of the sepals and petals 

 while in that species they exceed the perianth. 



Since the only description of the form was very brief and in 

 English, a Latin diagnosis is here given. It has been drawn chiefly 

 from my no. 6020, but it also applies to the types of Z. Fremontii var. 

 hrevibracteatus, at least as to inflorescence and flowers, which are the 

 only parts of the types that I have seen. 



Bulbo ovoideo, membranaceo-tunicato, ca. 3 cm. longo, diametro 

 2-2.5 cm. : caule tenui, erecto, 4-6 dm. alto : foliis subradicalibus. caulis 

 basim amplectentibus. linearibus, 15-20 cm. longis, usque ad 6 mm. 

 latis, saepe falcatis plicatisque, giabris, minute papillosis praecipue 

 marg'ine ; foliis superioribus bracteaef ormibus : panicula laxa, 2-4 dm. 

 longa ; paniculae ramis inferioribiLS divaricatis, 7-17 cm. longis ; pedi- 

 ceilis fere horizontalibus. 1-3 cm. longis ; bracteis scariosis, ovatis. 

 acurainatis, ca. 5 mm. longis : floribus albis, omnibus ut videtur ferti- 

 libus : sepalis ca. 7 mm. longis, ca. 5 mm. latis, late ellipticis, obtusis, 

 abrupte unguiculatis : petalis ca. 7 mm. long'is, 3.5 mm. latis, anguste 

 ellipticis. obtusis, basi in unguem brevem angustatis : nervis sepalorum 

 et petalorum ca. 12. saepe supra ramosis; glandula ad apicem unguis, 

 transversa, dubia : staminibus ca. 5 nnn. longis, basi segmentorum ad- 

 herentibus; filamentis basi leviter dilatatis: ovario omnino superiore: 

 capsula erecta, oblong-a. untrinque plus minus contracta. ca. 15 mm. 

 longa. 



The following: specimens have been seen : 



Among rocks at Victor, California, on tlie Mohave Desert, altitude about 

 800 m.. May 18, 1903, Marcus E. Jones; gravelly mesas just north of Cottonwood 

 Springs, in the Lower Sonoran Zone of the Colorado desert of Riverside County, 

 California, at an altitude of about 700 m.. May 10, 1905, H. M. Hall, no. 6020; 

 Burcham 's Eanch, Mohave River, San Bernardino County, altitude 1070 m., 

 May 29, 1901, S. B. Parish, no. 4958; Warren's Well, San Bernardino County, 

 May 16, 1902, T. S. Brandegee ; north slope of Cajon Pass, San Bernardino 

 County, altitude 1070 m.. May 20, 1905, H. M. Hall, no. 6219; Hesperia, San 

 Bernardino County, May 29, 1914 (in mature fruit), W. L. Jepson, no. 6140. 



Brodiaea modesta, sp. nov. 



Scapo levi, tenui, erecto, 1.5-2 dm. alto : foliis linearibus, planis. 

 10-15 cm. longis, 1-4 mm. latis: bracteis acuminatis. usque ad 6 mm. 

 longis : umbella subcapitata, 1-8 floris ; pedicellis 4-10 mm. longis : 

 periantho subcaeruleo, anguste infundibuliformi, basi attenuato, ca. 

 15 mm. longo ; segmentis tubum aequantibus, apice crassis caeruleis ; 

 segmentis exterioribus lanceolatis, acutis; segmentis interioribus paul- 

 ulum brevioribus, obtusis: staminibus inaequalibus ; inferiorum an- 

 theris 1.5 mm. longis, faucil)us alte affixis, fere sessilibus; superiorum 

 antheris 1.8 mm. longis, segmentis interioribus affixis, filamentis 2 mm. 



