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veins on the outside, segments equaling the tube; filaments 

 with a slender free part which is 2^ lines long and coiled 

 almost or quite into a ring; anthers oblong, a line in length, 

 obtuse at each end, fixed exactly in the middle; ovary half 

 exserted from the throat of the perianth, on a slender stipe 

 8 lines long; style slender, 2 lines long, somewhat incurved; 

 cells of capsule about 6-seeded. 



Foot-hills of the Sierra Nevada back of Fresno, June, 

 1886. Mr. J. E. Scupham. A beautiful species, related to 

 the next, but very distinct, with its snow-white, green- veined 

 perianth and coiled filaments. 



T. LAXA, Benth. Scape about two feet high, rigid and 

 stoutish: umbel 10 — 30-flowered: perianth an inch and a 

 half long, from light to dark violet, cleft to the middle: fila- 

 ments free for a line's length ; anthers OA^ate-lanceolate Avith 

 a 2-lobed base, fixed below the middle and borne erect: 

 ovary on a slender stipe a half-inch long. — Hort. Trans, n. 

 s. i. 413, 1. 15; Lindl. Bot. Keg. t. 1685; Hook. & Arn. Bot. 

 Beech. 401: Seubertia, Kunth. 1. c. ; Wood, 1. c. : Milla, Baker, 

 1. c: Brodicea, Watson, 1. c. 



Very common in the central parts of California, flowering 

 in May and June, the most showy aud beautiful species of 

 the whole alliance. 



T. PEDUNCULARis, Lindl. Scape 1 — 3 feet high: umbel 

 15 — 35-flowered, the pedicels greatly elongated, often 6 — 10 

 inches long: perianth pale rose-purj)le or nearly white, 

 about an inch long, cleft below the middle, the segments 

 wide-spread : stamens and pistil nearly" as in the last species, 

 but the anthers nearly linear, with retuse apex. — Bot. Beg. 

 t. 1685; Hook. & Arn. 1. c. 401; Kunth. 1. c. 469: Blillo, 

 Baker, 1. c. : Broduea, Watson, I.e. 



From Point Tiburon, near San Francisco, northward to 

 Lake and Mendocino Counties, also in the Sacramento 

 Yalley, growing in moist springy places, and later in its 

 flowering than the other species. 



