342 BOTx\NT. 
Tall, 2-3° high, leafy ; leaves ovate- or iiarrow-lauccolale, 5-8' long, scabrous 
on the margin, the lower sheathing and very obtuse, the others long-acumi- 
nate ; flowers greeiiish-brown, soUtary, axillary, nodding, the lip, sepals and 
petals all acuminate. — Washington Territory and Idaho to California, New 
Mexico and Western Texas, (Wright;) near Carson City, Nevada, (10 Ander- 
son.) Shore of Soda Lake in Carson Desert ; 4,000 feet altitude ; Au- 
gust. (1,158.) 
CoRALLORHizA MULTIFLORA, Nutt. Northern States and Canada, and 
on the Western Coast from Washington Territory to California. Found in 
the Wahsatch above Parley's Park, rare ; 7,000 feet altitude ; July. Sepals 
and ju'lals strongly veined ; middle lobe of the purplish lip broad and rounded, 
twice longer than the subacute lateral ones. (1,159.) 
IRlDACEiE. 
Iris Tolmieana, Herb. Bot. BeecJiey, 1. 396. Stem tall, 1-2° high, 
slender, solid, terete, naked or with a single leaf near the base, simple, 2-4- 
flowered ; leaves narrow, 3" wide, erect, acute, purple at base, shorter than 
the stem or about equaling it ; spathe 2-valved, acute, 2' long ; flowers on 
slen(h'r peduncles, ^-2' long, pale-blue, beardless and crestless ; tube short 
(3_4//) above a very short (1") solid base ; sepals 2^' long, exceeding the (2') 
petals ; stigmas 2-lobed, somewhat dentate at apex, shorter than the petals ; 
capsule oblong, 1^' long, ^ wide, hexagonal. — On the Willamette, Oregon, 
(Tolmie ;) Northern California, ( ? Newberry ;) also Ruby Valley, Nevada, 
(Beckwith,) referred to /. longipetala. Rather frequent in the high valleys 
from the Pah-Ute to the East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada; 6,000 feet alti- 
tude ; June-August. (1,160.) 
SiSYRiNCHiUM Bermudiana, L. Varying from Var. anceps to mucrona- 
tum^ the two forms sometimes collected together ; stems 4-15' high ; perianth 
3-6'' long. Throughout the United States and north to the Arctic Circle. 
Collected by Anderson near Carson City, and not rare, especially in high valleys, 
from the Shoshone and Toyabe Mountains eastward to the Wahsatch and 
Uiutas: 4,r>i)0-8,000 feet altitude; :\lay- August. (1,161.) 
SisYRiNcnn:>r GU'AXDiFLORrM, Dougl, Stem 8-18' high, strict, com- 
pressed, louutT than \ W errct sheathing leaves; spathe 1-3-flowered, about 
equaling Ww othMi ]io<hling peduncles; perianth large, 6-10" long, bright- 
purple, broadly campanulate ; filaments very long, subulate, connate only at 
