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Var. lilacina. A stout form, with large flowers, from white 

 becoming more or less tinged with lilac. — Mendocino and Humboldt 

 Counties. 



6. STROPHOLIRION, Torr. 



1. S. Californicum, Torr. Scape lax or often twining, 2 to 12 

 feet long, scabrous : pedicels (15 to 30) an inch long or less : flowers 

 5 or 6 lines long, with oblong-lanceolate segments : anthers equalling 

 the narrrow emarginate white staminodia and the lanceolate acute 

 wings of the filaments (2 lines long) : capsule shorter than the perianth. 

 — Pacif. R. Rep. 4. 149, t. 23. Rupalleya volubilis, Moriere, Bull. Soc. 

 Norm. 8. 313, t. Dichelostemma Californica, Wood, Proc. Acad. 

 Philad. 1868, 173. Brodicea volubilis, Baker, Journ. Linn. Soc. 11. 

 177; Hook. f. Bot. Mag. t. 6123. Foothills of the Sierra Nevada 

 (Mariposa County and northward). 



7. BREVOORTIA, Wood. 



1. B. coccinea. Scape erect, 1 to 3 feet high, with reddish bracts : 

 pedicels (6 to 15) an inch long or less : flowers 12 to 16 lines long, 

 with ovate segments 2 or 3 lines in length : anthers equalling the 

 limb ; staminodia a half shorter, yellow : capsule as long as the peri- 

 anth, on a stipe 2 or 3 lines long. — B. Ida-Maia, Wood, Proc. 

 Acad. Philad. 1867, 82. Brodicea coccinea, Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 

 7. 389 ; Baker, Journ. Linn. Soc. 11. 378 ; Hook. f. Bot. Mag. t. 5857. 

 N. California (Humboldt to Shasta Counties). 



8. ANDROSTEPHIUM, Torr. 



1. A. violaceum, Torr. Scape 2 to 6 inches high : flowers 8 to 

 12 lines long or more, usually exceeding the stout pedicels; tube 

 nearly as long as the limb : crown scarcely shorter than the limb, the 

 lobes exceeding the anthers. — Bot. Mex. Bound. 218. Milla ccerulea, 

 Scheele, Linnasa, 25. 260. W. Kansas to Texas. 



2. A. breviflorum, Watson. Scape usually stouter, 3 to 12 

 inches high : flowers half an inch long, mostly shorter than the pedi- 

 cels, and the tube much shorter than the limb : lobes of the crown 

 shorter than the anthers. — Amer. Naturalist, 7. 303. S. Utah to 

 S. Yj. California. 



The Mexican genus Bessera, of a single species (B. elegans, 

 Schult.), is closely allied to Androstephium ; flowers bright scarlet, the 

 more spreading segments closely 3-nerved ; the elongated filaments 

 and style exserted. 



