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BOTAKY. 
ing at base, (even tlie 1-2 uppermost bract-like ones,) broad-linear, 4-8" 
wide, rough-margined and ronghisli-puberulent on both sides, folded-carinate 
and mostly falcate ; raceme panicled, many-flowered, the lower branches 
spreading, short, the terminal ones elongated, (3-10';) flowers on slender 
pedicels, often sterile and short-pedicelled in the lower racemes ; bracts mem- 
branous ; sepals 1-2" long, oblong, abruptly somewhat narrowed at base, the 
rather broad claw green and glandular ; ovary-cells about 10-ovuled; capsule 
oblong-ovate or oblong, ^-l' long ; seeds 3-5" long, oblong. — An examina- 
tion of numerous specimens leaves no doubt of the distinctness of these two 
species. Bulb as in the last, but usually larger, the whole plant stout, grow- 
ing on dry foot-hills, and in flower a month earlier. The root of neither spe- 
cies is eaten by the Indians. Oregon and Washington Territory. Frequent 
on the foot-hills of the Virginia, Trinity and West Humboldt Mountains, Ne- 
vada, and in the Wahsatch ; 5-6,000 feet altitude; May, June. (1,164.) 
Veratrum album, L. Raceme panicled, pubescent ; bracts at the base 
of the branches oblong ; pedicels much shorter than the calyx ; sepals oblong, 
rather obtuse, somewhat hmbriate-denticulate, spreading ; leaves plicate, the 
lower elliptical. — Flowers numerous in a rather close strict panicle, ochroleu- 
cous with a darker green or brownish base; segments 4-5" long, oblong, 
attenuate at base ; branchlets of the panicle tomentose ; leaves varying from 
lanceolate to nearly orbicular ; 8-5° high. Collected by Parry in the Middle 
Park, Colorado, and by Anderson (105) near Carson City, Nevada. The 
specimens of Wright's collection from Ochotsk Sea are somewhat less tomen- 
tose and the sepals more deeply denticulate. V. Californicum, Dur., is only 
rather more loosely panicled. The Oregon and Alaska form has greenish 
flowers, with the branches of the panicle elongated and drooping, and is F. 
Esdischoltzu, Gray, and nearly F. Lohelianu??i, Banks., which is F. albu7n, /9., 
Cham. & Ledeb. The eastern F. viride seems to differ only in the green 
herbaceous perianth, the segments perhaps rather less attenuate at base, 
the panicle more open and with longer branches. East Himiboldt Mount- 
ains, Nevada, and in the Wahsatch; 6-9,000 feet altitude; June-^Septem- 
ber. (1,165.) 
Prosaktes ' TRACHYCARPA. Stem 1-1 i° high, glabrous or pubescent; 
'Tlu. . harart.rs of tl... fruit :ud ,nnd, \n ,l..t.>rminin,o; the specie, of this somewhat confused 
genu.. Most at tl,.. w, s,.., u tonus l..v. h.. ,.. r. f.m.l to 7'. Jlookeri, Tovt. This species i,s more or h.s 
ronf;h,sh-i>ub..sreuf. th. loav. s dn ply < onh,.,. and . h. spin o. very scabrons upon the mar.nn : tUnvers 
green.sh, usuaUv tn.n. af. .t ha«o, the Hepals hr.-.uU.u U... .nd ratW ohtuse, about equaling the 
