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leaves 1 to i' 1 lines broad : flowers white, purple-veined, s to 10 line 

 long, mi spreading pedicels 2 to '.• lines long: capsule 8 lines long. — 

 Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound, t. •'><»; Baker, Journ. Linn. Soo. 18. 291. 

 Inthmcum, Ker, Bot. Reg. t. 56 I. Scilla, DC; Red. Lil. t. 421. 

 Phalangium, Don, Sweet's Fl. Gard. 2 ser. t. 881. Ornithogalum 

 divaricatum, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 28, t, 28. 0. divaricatum, Kunth. 

 California (valleys and foothills, from the Upper ^Sacramento to Tuol- 

 umne ( lounty and Santa Barbara i 



* * Perianth-segments oblong-oblanceolate, spreading from above the base: 

 pedicels very short, 



2. C. pabviplorxjm. Bulb smaller (an inch thick), with darfc 

 membranous coats: stem 2 or 8 feet high, with slender divaricate 

 branches: leaves grass-like (2 or 8 lines broad): pedicels rarely a 

 Inn- or two long, mostly shorter than the bracts: Sowers pinkish, 

 8 or I lines long: ovary broad and obtuse: capsule smaller (scarcely 

 2 lines in diameter). — S.California (Cajon Valley, near San Diego; 

 1). Cleveland, 1877). 



8. C. an(!iisiii'((i,iiim, Kellogg. Resembling the last: flowers 

 white with yellowish-green lines,.'! to 6 lines long, narrow at base; 

 the ovary being oblong-ovate, acutish above, and shortly stipitate. 

 — Proc. Calif. Acad. 2. 105, flg. 80. California (Shasta County, 

 Kellogg; near JTuba, A. \V I). 



L6. ODONTOSTOMUM, Ton-. 



1, O. Hartwegi, Ton-. Siem .i. foot or two high, branching from 

 die ground: corm deep-seated, an inch in diameter: leaves rather 

 short, flat or somewhat undulate, I to 6 lines wide : racemes loosely 

 many-flowered; bracts and bractlets very aarrow: pedicels usually 



Very slender :in<l exceeding the hr.'iets: Mowers I to 6 lines long; 



segments of the limb oblong: style equalling the tube: capsule nearly 

 2 lines long. — Bot INIox. Bound. 150, t. 24; Baker, Journ. Linn. 

 Soe. ii. 486. Foothills of the Sierra Nevada (Butte to Amador 

 ( lounties). 



17. CONVALLARIA, Linn. 



1. C. ma.iaus, Linn. Leaves broadly elliptic to oblanceolate, 

 exceeding the angular scape : perianth 8 lines long and nearly as 

 broad: berry 8 or l lines in diameter. — Alleghanies (Virginia to 

 S. Carolina) ; apparently identical with the plant of Europe and Asia 

 (or lobes narrower and more acute?). 



