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BOTANY. 
and ill the mountains to Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona. On tlie banks 
of the Truckee and in mountain canons of Nevada and the Wahsatch ; 
4 7,000 feet altitude; May-October. l-3i° high, the larger specimens 
with leaves 8' long and li' wide ; berries 3-5'' in diameter. (1,169.) 
PoLYGONATUM GiGANTEUM, Dictr. Northern States ; on the Winnipeg 
and Saskatchewan; Montana, (Suckley;) also collected by Stansbury, but 
the locality uncertain. 
LiLiUM PARVUM, Kell. Trans. Calf. Acad. 2. 179, t. 52. Stem 1^-2^ 
high ; lower leaves verticillate, the upper scattered, 2-3' long, lanceolate, 
acute or acuminate, 3-nerved, somewhat roughened beneath and upon the 
margin ; the ciliate bracts 5-7-nerved ; flowers rather small, verticillate by 
threes and alternate above, long-peduncled, erect or suberect, oblong-cam- 
[•aiiidate, the sessile sepals l-l¥ long, revolute above the middle, red and 
somewhat spotted.— Cahfornia and Nevada, (Dorr.) Specimens in Herb. 
Gray., which probably belong to this species, (10 Anderson from near Carson 
City, 526 Torrey from Donner Pass, and 351 Bridges from California,) are 
perfectly smooth, the stems 1-25-flowered, the flowers all scattered (or the 
lowermost subverticillate) and each peduncle subtended by a single bract. It 
should probably be considered but a variety of L. Canadense, which appears 
to assume several forms upon the western coast. 
Fritillaria^ atropurpurea, Nutt. Jo?ir. Acad. Phil 7. 54. Stem 4'-2° 
high, from a flat circular bulbiferous root, 1-9-flowered ; leaves linear, U-i' 
long, 1-2" wide, scattered or the lower ones rarely in a whorl, obtuse or 
acute ; flowers on ¥ peduncles, dark-brown, variegated with greenish-white 
or yellow ; sepals 5-9" long, subrhombric-lanceolate and spreading ; filaments 
filifbnu; anthers oblong ; stigmas widely recurved ; capsule 6-12" long, 5-9" 
in diameter, hexagonal and 6-winged, truncate above and abruptly narrowed 
at base ; seeds very numerous.— Stem and leaves usually tinged with brown 
■rmTILLARIA, ToT-Kx. Porianll, roouiav, d. ..i.luous. of six distinct .ul.ennul .opal., campann- 
Jat.-connnvnt, ^vItll an inunar^inat,. Ti.un.w lu ctariferor.s glaiul abuve the W of each. Filaments C 
Bubulat.>-t.l,l..r,„. , ,,,,, KuI,l,vpogynou8. Anthera linear-oblong, attached 
anteriorly al.wv.. li. nu lilan„.nt. v. r.nlile. d.Liscing lonsitudiually on the inner side. Ovary 
free 8c^..l... tna,..ula.. , vul.s nunu n.us, in two row., horizontal, anatropon«. Stylo Hubcl^ 
vaioly tl.u-k,..,..d a, tb- ... . Muons. S,i«n.u t.ilid, (entir. in F. with linear .analienlatelv 
^V'''"'' <"-»"^'><-"l i» ^' h-umhchatccnm, G-win.^,..l in F hum- 
''"f , ' ■ — ' • '-'l^'ily -valv.d, without central columns a^nd the Valves 
u...o,s..ly chat., on th.. n.n.n,. „ ,.,..,a,lly half-obovatc, wi.h-ly auar^inod, einnmnon-brown, 
bo th.n ,u..nd.,.anons ,.Ma adl,..„ . a bunn-n. Kndnyo very nunute, oblon., straight.-Bnlbon 
: ^b^ldyV:''-'' . ' ' --lie; flowcia noting, mostly 
