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elongated leaf: spathe-valves 2, broadly ovate : pedicels few (G to 12), 

 short and stout : petals bright rose-color, G to 8 lines long, lanceolate, 

 acuminate, twice longer than the stamens : filaments lanceolate : crests 

 prominent, acutish, irregularly toothed : stigma somewhat lobetl. — 

 lu the mountains bordering the INIohave Desert, near Cushenberry 

 Springs; Parish Brothers, May, 1882. A showy species of the 

 A. cristatiim group, with unusually large flowers. 



BnoDi.EA STELLARis. Resembling B. minor: leaves nearly terete : 

 stems 2 to 6 inches high, from small fibrous-coated bulbs, bearing 

 a 3-6-flowered umbel; pedicels unequal, very short: perianth narrow 

 at base, 6 to 10 lines long, the greenish tube nearly equalling the 

 deep-purple segments : filaments very short, winged on each side, the 

 broadly oblong appendages half the length of the anther, which is 

 H lines long and shorter than the white deeply emarginate staminodia: 

 ovary attenuate to a short stipe, acute, the cells G-8-ovuled: capsule 

 nearly equalling the perianth. — On high mountain sides near Ukiah, 

 Mendocino County, California ; collected by Mr. Carl Purdy, in June, 

 1881, who suggests the name with reference to the radiate appearance 

 of the scapes and pedicels. Distinguished by the winged filaments, 

 which resemble the corresponding ones of B. capitata. 



BuoDi^A FiLiFOLiA. Leaves very narrow (| line broad or less), 

 about equalling the scape (a span high) : pedicels unequal, \ to nearly 

 2 inches long : perianth 6 to 9 lines long, the broadly oblong segments 

 exceeding the rather narrow tube, the outer segments mucronate : 

 anthers 3, sessile, somewhat sagittate at base, 2 lines long, nearly 

 twice longer than the triangular staminodia : ovary sessile ; cells 2- 

 ovuled : capsule oblong-obovate, 3 lines long. — Collected near San 

 Bernardino by S. B. & W. F. Parish, in 1880, as also by G. R. 

 Vasey. Distinguished by the short staminodia. 



Calochortus longebarbatus. Stem slender, nearly a foot 

 high, bulbiferous near the base, with 1 or 2 narrow radical leaves, 

 2-branched and usually 2-flowered at the summit : pedicels erect in 

 flower and fruit, or nearly so : petals lilac, yellowish at base, an inch 

 long, obovate, erose-denticulate at the rounded summit, with a broad 

 glandular pit bordered above by very long flexuous hairs, otherwise 

 nearly naked : anthers narrowly oblong, obtuse, nearly 2 lines long : 

 capsule broadly ovate and winged, 6 to 10 lines long, — In low grassy 

 grounds. Falcon Valley, Klickitat County, Washington Territory; 

 W. N. Suksdorf, July, 1881. Allied to C. nitidus. 



Tradescantia Floridana. Stems very slender, procumbent and 

 matted, rooting at the lower joints, glabrous : leaves ovate-lanceolate, 



