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Bracts about as long as the pedicels, or a little longer in 

 flower, and less in fruit ; petals erect and recurve spreading 

 (not revolute) ; three outer sepals more linear, acute, villous 

 apex incurved ; three inner often slightly emarginate (marginal 

 nerves obscure) ; petals and sepals united into a tube one line 

 long, persistent. 



Stamens included, filaments subulate, anthers yellow, fixed 

 by the back, at length versatile, linear oblong, style longer 

 than the stamens, attenuated upwards, stigma three-parted, a 

 seen in fig. 2. 



Radical leaves narrow, linear-lanceolate, rather flat, striate- 

 nerved, rather slightly undulated, subglabrous along the trans- 

 lucent margin, (two rows of cells not depositing chlorophyl) 

 green alike above and below, four to eight inches long and 

 about one-quarter broad ; lower cauline leaves linear ; at the 

 axils expanded near the base and attenuated upwards, one to 

 four inches in length. 



This species differs from C. pomeridianum in the form of the 

 root, which instead of being long-ovate, with a thick cylindroid 

 trunk above, has a short ovo-conic shape ; the bulbs are also 

 destitute of the loose fibrous texture which distinguishes the 

 coatings of the former. 



O. pomei'idianum is known by its remarkably undulate 

 leaves, dark brown stems and spreading branches, larger revo- 

 lute flowers with dark lines, dull purple anthers, longer pedi- 

 cels and green torus, most conspicuous in fruit. 



In C. angustifolium the leaves are plain and as above de- 

 scribed ; the brown membranous coating is more like the Ro- 

 man Narcissus ; the insertion of the petals, as indicated, is 

 quite different, and the base does not remain green, forming a 

 kind of distinct torus, on which the capsule rests, as in C. po- 

 meridianum. 



These comparative observations are from cultivated speci- 

 mens, both blooming in June and July, and growing side by 

 side. 



We are indebted to Dr. J. A. Veatch for the following in- 

 teresting shrub form Cerros Islaiid : 



lApochceta hastata (Kellogg). Fig. 31. Stem shrubbery two to 

 three feet in height; branches opposite, striate, slightly decurrent 

 angled from the leaves ; leaves opposite, often alternate above, 

 oblong-hastate-triangular, acute or somewhat acuminate, entire, 

 repand mucronate-dentate below, with one or more large sali- 

 ent teeth, at the angles ; lamina rigid coriaceous, (very brittle 

 in the dry state) tri^linerved , veins prominent, (often sub-reti- 



