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Mature leaves serrulate; style present 1. N. parryi. 



Mature leaves not serrulate; style none 2. N. bigelovii. 



1. N. parryi Wats. (Fig. 58.) Stem 3 to 6 feet high; leaves rather thick, 

 concave, keeled, serrulate, % to IV; inelies wide, 2 to 3i/:{ feet long; bracts irreg- 

 ularly and remotely salient-laeiniate ; flowers 3 lines long ; capsule orbicular in 

 outline, notched at both ends, 6 to 7 lines broad. 



Arid mountain slopes, 4000 to 6000 feet : eastern San Bernardino Mts., south 

 through the San Jacinto Mts. to San Diego Co. Arizona ; Lower California. 

 May- June. 



Loes. — Rattlesnake Canon, e. San Bernardino Mts., Farixh 314.5; Talic|uitz Valley, Hall 

 2432; Santa Rosa Mt., Jepson 1433; Corona, ace. Parish; Pala, Orcutt; San Felipe, T. 

 Brandegee. 



Eef. — NoLiNA PARRYI Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 14:247 (1879), type loc. desert east of San 

 Bernardino, Parry. 



2. N. bigelovii Wats. Leaves scarcely concave or keeled, the margin shred- 

 ding away in brown fibres ; margins of bracts deeply and rather closely fringed ; 

 perianth 1 to 1^2 lines long. 



IMountains, southern borders of the Colorado Desert ; south into Lower Cali- 

 fornia, east into Arizona. 



Loc. — Mountain Sprs., San Diego Co., Parish 9044, only known station in California. 



Refs. — NoLiNA BIGELOVII Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 14:247 (1879). Dasylirion higclovii Torr. 

 Pae. R. Rep. 4:151 (1857), type loc. Williams River, Ariz., Bigelow. 



23. ASPARAGUS L. 



Stem from a rootstock, very much branched and with filiform branchlets 

 clustered in the axils of the scaly leaves. Flowers small, solitary or in umbels 

 or racemes. Perianth-segments alike, distinct or slightly united, the stamens 

 inserted on their bases. Ovary 3-celled, with 2 ovules in each cell ; style short, 

 stigmas 3, recurved. Fruit a globose berry. — Species 100, Old World. (Ancient 

 Greek name.) 



1. A. officinalis L. Asparagus. Stems tall and In-anching, 3 to 5 feet high, 

 when young stout, succulent and edible; clustered branchlets 4 to 8 lines long; 

 flowers green, pendulous on jointed peduncles; perianth campanulate, 3 lines 

 long, with included stamens; berry red, 4 lines in diameter. 



Garden plant escaped to low lands about Alameda, San Bernardino and Los 

 Angeles. 



Ref. — Asparagus officinalis L. Sp. PI. 1:313 (1753), type European. 



24. STREPTOPUS Michx. Twisted-stalk 

 Stems branching from a creeping rootstock. Leaves alternate, ovate, sessile 

 or clasping, taper-pointed, membranous. Flowers greenish-white, axillary, soli- 

 tary or in pairs, drooping on slender filiform peduncles which are bent or con- 

 torted at the middle. Periantli campanulate, the lanceolate segments distinct, 

 recurved-spreading, deciduous. Stamens 6 ; filaments short, flattened. Style 1 ; 

 stigma slightly 3-lobed. Fruit a red ovoid or oval berry. — Five species. North 

 America, Europe and Asia. (Greek streptos, twisted, and pons, foot or stalk.) 

 1. S. amplexifolius DC. Lfver-bebry. Stem V/i to 3 feet high ; leaves ovate, 

 clasping, glaucous beneath, 21^ to 4% inches long; peduncles with a gland at 

 the knee ; flowers greenish-white, 5 to 6 lines long. 



Margin of cold streamlets in the woods: Mendocino Co. to western Siskiyou 

 Co., thence east and southeast to Moiloc and Plumas cos., 1000 to 5500 feet. 

 North to Alaska and east to tlic .Athiiific. Europe, Asia. 



Locs. — Dinsmoro Rancli, Van Duzen River. Tracy 3956; Trinity Summit, Jepson 2058a; 

 Marble Valley, w. Siskiyou Co., Butler 97; Sisson, Jepsn-n; Forestdale, M. S. Baker; Mill 

 Creek, Plumas Co., E. M. Austin. 



