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twelve to eighteen inches high; leaves one to two inches long, 

 oblanceolate to obovate, quickly contracted into a short-margined 

 petiole, finely and closely laciniate-dentate, thick; bracts and 

 adjoining pedicels glandular pubescent ; flowers five-merous, 

 large or very large; anthers small one and one-half lines long and 

 Munt, purple-margined and white in the centre; stamen tube 

 about a line long, and deep purple ; bracts hyaline, six lines 

 long and lanceolate acuminate, or oblanceolate, petiolate, and 

 green and leaf-like. 



Another form collected by me at Soda Springs, Sierra County, 

 Cal., July 27, 188 1, answers to var. Jeffreyi, K. Brandegee. 



If I were disposed I could certainly make at least three new 

 species out of my material fully as good as any that Dr. Gray has 

 described, but I cannot resist the conviction that there is but one 

 polymorphous species whose separation even into varieties is 

 warranted only by the desire to arrange the forms in some kind of 

 succession. 



EREMOCRiNUM, nov- gen. 



This genus belongs to the Liliacege, subtribe Anthericeae, 

 and appears to be nearest to Anthericum, though it has some 

 characters in common with Leucocrinum and Glyphosperma 

 Watson. Perianth rotate, segments three-nerved, white and 

 thin, nerves green; anthers linear, blunt, lobed at base, erect, 

 basifixed and edge to ovary, smooth; filaments linear, broader at 

 base, straight, smooth; slender style elongated, enlarged and 

 capitate at apex; capsule oblong and bluntly lobed, cells appar- 

 ently two-seeded; pedicels rather stout and jointed near the base; 

 flowers racemose spicate; roots many, long and slender, fleshy, 

 some horizontal; rootstock very short and erect. 



ErEmocrinum albomarginatum. This is Hesperanihes 

 albomarginata Jones, Zoe, ii, 251. The only change I would 

 make is in the anthers and filaments which I find are not 

 pubescent. I have not yet the mature fruit of this plant. From 

 the first I felt sure that it was a new genus and I withheld it 

 from publication for about a year hoping to be able to decide the 

 matter, but being unable to satisfy myself I finally published it 

 as Hesperanthes, though I knew it did not agree with that genus 



