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A common and very characteristic plant of the mountains of the northern part 

 of the State, often thickly covering large areas of open marshy land. It is some- 

 times eaten by sheep, with fatal results. The common name given in the books is 

 "false hellebore," but in New Mexico it is always known as "skunk cabbage," 

 although it is very unlike the plant which bears that name in tne eastern United 

 States. 



2. SCHOENOCAULON A. Gray. 



Low plant with a slender scape from a black fibrous-coated elongated bulb; leaves 

 all radical, pale green, long, grasslike; flowers perfect, pale green, almost sessile in 

 a spikelike raceme; capsules about 12 mm. long, with 4 to 6-seeded cells. 



1. Schoenocaulon drummondii A. Gray; Hook. & Am. Bot. Beechey Voy. 388. 

 1841. 

 Schoenocaulon texanum Scheele, Linnaea 25: 262. 1852. 

 Type locality: Southwestern Texas. 



Range: Western Texas and southern New Mexico to Mexico. 

 New Mexico: Ten miles west of Roswell (Wooton). Dry hills and plains. 



3. ANTICLEA Kunth. 



Glabrous herbs from tunicated bulbs, the stems scapose, or bearing a few leaves; 

 flowers of medium size, ochroleucous, greenish; perianth segments similar, each bear- 

 ing an obcordate gland near the base; inflorescence open, loose, few-flowered. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



Inflorescence paniculate, widely branched, glaucous; pedicels slen- 

 der, divergent, 2 or more times the length of the subtending 



bracts; petals about 5 mm. long 1. A. porri/olia. 



Inflorescence racemose, sometimes with a few short branches below, 

 green; pedicels stout, erect or ascending, of about the same 

 length as the subtending bracts; petals 5 to 8 mm. long. 



Perianth segments 7 to 8 mm. long," 7 to 13-nerved 2. A . elegans. 



Perianth segments 5 to G mm. long, 3 to 7-nerved 3. A. coloradensis. 



1. Anticlea porrifolia (Greene) Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 30: 273. 1903. 

 Zygadenus porrifolius Greene, Bull. Torrey Club 8: 123. 1881. 



Type locality: "Mogollon Mountains, near the summits," New Mexico. Type 

 collected by Greene in 1881. 



Range: Southwestern New Mexico to Chihuahua. 



New Mexico: Mogollon Mountains; Lookout Mines. Mountains, in the C anadi a n 

 Zone. 



2. Anticlea elegans (Pursh) Rydb. Bull. Toney Club 30: U7:i. 1903. 

 Zygadenus elegans Pursh, Fl. Amer. Sept. 241. 1814. 



Zygadenus dilatatus Greene, PI. Baker. 1: 51. 1901. 



Type locality: "On the waters of the Cokahlaiahkil rivrr. near the Rocky 

 mountains." 



Range: Alaska and Saskatchewan to Nevada and New Mexico. 



New Mexico: Chama; Santa IV and Las Vegas mountains; Baldy; White Moun- 

 tains. Damp woods, in the ' anadian and Budsonian .- 



3. Anticlea coloradensis Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 30: 273 L90 I 

 Zygadenus eoloradenria Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 27: 534. HKX). 

 Tytk locality: Idaho Springs, Colorado. 



Range: Utah and Colorado to northwestern Ne* M< uco. 

 N>;w Mexico; Tunitcha Mountains (Standby 7654). Meadows in the mountains, 

 in the Transition Zone. 



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