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the margin; spatlie 4-6-bracted, the segments siibulate-hnear, connate at 
base ; pedicels 6-12, not jointed, long ; perianth S" long, greenish or 
yellowish-white with darker subcarinate midveins, the segments very shortly 
connate at base, erect or subspreading, oblong or lanceolate, somewhat sac- 
culate at the tip ; stamens in one row, shorter than the sepals, the filaments 
subulate from a scarcely dilated adnate base ; style rather thick, wilh a 
shortly 3-cleft or capitate stigma ; capsule globular, sessile, the cells obtuse, 
10-ovuled and about 3-seeded. — Approaching Allium § Notlioscordum, from 
which it is separated especially by the characters of the root, which is that 
of Milla and Brodicea, a fibrously coated corm, the older flat and disk-like 
joints fringed with rootlets and easily separating. Coast of California from 
Monterey to Punta de los Reyes. Near Steamboat Springs in Washoe \'al- 
ley, Nevada. (1,190.) 
Yucca ? A communication from Dr. George Engchnami upon 
the w^esteni species of this genus will be given in the Appendix. 
JUNCACE^. 
LuzuLA SPADICEA, DC. Steud. Syn. Cyp. 202. Shortly stoloniforous ; 
leaves flat, nearly smooth; sheaths smooth or bearded at the throat; inflo- 
rescence twice-compound, spreading, longer than the involucre ; sepals nearly 
ecpial, ovate, mucronate, shorter than the triangular-ovate capsule ; stamens 
a fourth shorter than the sepals ; testa of the subglobose seed very shortly 
papillose at the apex. Yar. paevifloea. Led. Stolons slightly longer ; rad- 
ical leaves long and dilated, smooth throughout ; branches of the decompound 
cyme very unequal ; flowers very small and brownish, tlic lateral ones on long 
capillary at length nodding pedicels; anthers scarcely exceeding the fila- 
ment. — Ledebour, Hooker and other authorities agree in referring L. ixirvi- 
Jlora^ melanocarpa, &c., to spadicea. The specimens of the collection vaiy to 
some extent; — 1-2° high, the sheaths for the most part somewhat l)eardctl; 
flowers light or dark-colored; capsule acute or very obtuse, mucronate. From 
Northern New York to Maine and Labrador; Canada, and westward iti ilie 
Rocky Mountains, and to Washington Territory, Sitka and IJeliring Strait; 
Colorado. East Humboldt and Clover Mountains, Ncvaihi ; and in the Wah- 
satch and Uintas ; 9,000 feet altitude; July-September. (1,191.) 
LuzuLA CAMPESTEis, DC. Throughout the eastern United States, in 
Arkansas, Colorado and California, and northward to Newfoundland, the Sas- 
