CATALOGUE. 
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the contracted base, erect, at length spreading. — Washington Territory to 
Northern Cahfornia. Collected by Beckwith in the Stage Pass of the East 
Humboldt Mountains, Nevada. 
LILIACE^. 
ZiGADENUS GLAUcus, Nutt. From Northern New York, the Great Lakes 
and Upper Canada to the Saskatchewan, Great Bear Lake and Behring Strait, 
and southward in the mountains to California, Colorado and New jMcxIco, 
(Fendler.) Li Ruby and Huntington Valleys and in the East HunibolcU and 
Uinta Mountains; 6-9,000 feet altitude; August. Only a sk'iulci- form, 
1-2° high, with a loose few-flowered somewhat panicled raceme, the leaves 
narrow, not exceeding 3" wide ; serials 3-4" in length, li-2" wide. (1,162.) 
V ZiGADENus Fremontii, Torr. {Antidea, Torn Fac. R. R. Surv. 4. 149. 
Z. Douglasii^ Torr. Pac. R. R. Surv. 1. 20.) Collected by Frcimont on the 
Uinta River, Utah, and found from California to AYashington Territory, 
Scarcely distinguishable from the last, except by its more obscure gland occu- 
pying the base of the petal and extending upward along the nerves, but not 
so far as the well-defined 2-lobed summit of the gland in Z. glaucu.^. 
ZiGADENUS NuTTALLii, Gray. (Atnianthiu??i Nuttallii^ Gray, Var. «. 
Ann. N. Y. Lyc. 4. 123.) Bulb tunicated ; stem 8-20' high, slendei-, ^\ itli 
several elongated narrowly linear bracteiform leaves, which are seini-aniplex- 
icaul or the lower slightly sheathing; lower leaves 2-4'' wide, fol.lcd-cari- 
nate, usually shorter than the stem, rough on the margin; raceme sim|»le, 
usually very short, 1-3' long, rarely 10'; flowers crowded, l)iaeleate, on 
slender elongated pedicels; lower bracts usually foliaceous, tlie upper mem- 
branous; sepals 11-3" long, ovate-elliptical, very obtuse, al)rnptly narrowed 
and shghtly glandular at base; ovary-cells 12-14-ovuled ; caj.sule oblong- 
ovate, 6" long; seeds W long, oblong.— Always growing in meadows or on 
stream-banks, the raceme always sinii)lc. Bulb al)Out in diameter or 
larger ; coatings often marked by numerous white raplii.les. From Arkansas 
and Texas to California and Oregon. Havallah and liattle Mountains and 
Ruby Valley, Nevada, and in the Wahsatch ; 6,000 feet altitude; flowering 
late in June and in July. (1,163.) 
v/ZiGADESXiS PANICULATUS. {Helonias,^\\ii. Ain'xinllihnn XuttnUu, (iray, 
Var. ,5., I. c.) Stem rather stout, 15-30' high, somewliat ieaty ; leaves shealli- 
