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Var. (?) albiflorum, Hook. Flowers large, white with yellow 

 and orange base: leaves mottled. — Fl. Bor.-Am. 2. 182; Regel, 

 Gartenfl. 1874, t. 767, f. 1-4. E. giganteum, Lindl. 1. c. ? ; Hook. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 5714. E. grandijlorum, Van Houtte, Fl. Serres, t. 

 2117. Washington Territory. 



Var. (?) minor, Morren. Flowers small (an inch long), bright 

 yellow. — Belg. Hort. 26. 109, t. 6. Utah and Colorado. 



Var. (?) Smithii, Hook. Flowers large, tinged with purple or 

 rose-color : filaments often dilated : ovary broader and more obtuse. 

 — Fl. Bor.-Am. 2. 182. E. revohitum, Smith, Rees' Cyc. Van- 

 couver Island; Mendocino County, California (n. 4709, Bolander). 



5. E. Hartwegi. Bulb small : leaves usually more or less 

 separated, apparently mottled, often rather small: flowers solitary, or 

 2 or 3 in a sessile umbel, light yellow and orange, 1 or 2 inches long, 

 the segments spreading or scarcely recurved : filaments usually short, 

 slender ; anthers 2 to 4 lines long : ovary ovate-oblong. — E. grandi- 

 Jlorum, Benth. PI. Hartw. 339. Sierra Nevada (Placer to Plumas 



Counties). 



6. E. PURPURASCENS, Watson. Bulb an inch or two long : leaves 

 undulate, often large : flowers usually 4 to 8 in a pedunculate sub- 

 umbellate raceme, light yellow tinged with purple, deep orange at base, 

 9 to 12 lines long : pedicels very unequal: anthers a line or two long: 

 style clavate : capsule narrow, about an inch long. — Proc. Amer. 

 Acad. 12. 277. E. grandijlorum, var. midtiflorum, Torr. Pacif. R. 

 Rep. 4. 146, and var. multiscapidea, Wood, Proc. Philad. Acad. 1868, 

 166. Fritillaria multiscapidea, Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad. 1. 46. 

 E. revolutum, Baker, Gard. Chron. 1876, 138, seems to be only a very 

 slender 1 -flowered form of this species. Sierra Nevada (Placer to 

 Plumas Counties). 



29. LLOYDIA, Salisb. 



1. L. serotina, Reichenb. Stem 2 to 6 inches high, equalling the 

 leaves : flowers erect, usually solitary ; perianth-segments oblanceolate, 

 obtuse, obscurely pitted at base, 4 or 5 lines long, exceeding the sta- 

 mens and style : capsule obovate, obtusely angled, 4 lines long : seeds 

 chestnut-colored. — Ornithogalum Iracteatum, Torrey, Ann. Lye. 

 N. Y. 2. 251. Cronyxium serotinum and Fenelonia bracteata, Raf. 

 Alpine and arctic regions of the northern hemisphere ; Alaska and 

 Arctic Coast, Rocky Mountains of Colorado to 38° lat., and on the 

 Clover Mouutains, Nevada. 



