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cina, Watson, said to inhabit MeDdocino and Humboldt 

 counties in this State, is not known to me nnless it be the 

 following very distinct species. 



T. LILACINA. Scape less than a foot high: pedicels 10—15: 

 perianth a half inch long, lilac-purple: stamens in one row; 

 filaments not deltoid-dilated or in any degree monadelphous, 

 coalescent with the tuba throughout, free above it, and 

 bearing the linear-oblong anthers more than half way up the 

 segments. 



Amador Couuty, May 25, 1836, Mrs. M. K. Curran. 



BEHRIA Nov. Gen 



Perianth tubular, persistent, abruptly subglobose-inflated 

 and 6-saccate above the attenuate ba^e, thence more grad- 

 ually contracted into the long, narrow, 6-toothed tube. 

 Stamens 6 : filaments filiform, free down to the base of the 

 sac of the perianth, there abruptly dilated and united into 

 a short crown: anthers versatile, exserted from the perianth. 

 Ovary stipitate, 3-celled, many-ovuled: style filiform, long- 

 exserted: stigma small, 3-lobed. Plant with the scarious- 

 bracted umbel and slender, jointed pedicels of Triteleia; 

 scape apparently tortuous or twining as in Brodicea: leaves 

 and corm (?) unknown. The genus is dedicated to our ex- 

 cellent friend, H. Herman Behr, M. D., Professor of Bot- 

 any in the College of Pharmacy of the University of Cali- 

 fornia. 



B. TENUIFLORA. Pedicels 8 — 15, very slender, an inch or 

 two long : perianth 10 lines long, the supra-basal sac 3 lines 

 broad, tubular portion hardly rnore than a line in diameter, 

 the ovate-oblong teeth about a line long, erect or slightly 

 spreading, brownish, apparently; whole body of the per- 

 ianth bright scarlet: anthers linear-oblong, a line long, ob- 

 tuse at each end, fixed by the middle, yellow : capsule ovate ^ 

 a half inch long. 



