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ters of this are very obscure, though the fih\ments (said by Herbert to 

 be free) are evidently coherent, as they are in the present phuit. It is 

 pretty evident that Herbert's specimens were in the same way a mix- 

 ture, and that his characters for the species were largely drawn from 

 the Nemasti/lis. The present species is a true Gelasine, and not a 

 Cali/dorea, to which genus Herbert's species is referred by Baker, and 

 by Bentham & Hooker. 



Bloomeria Clevelandi. Differing from B. aurea in the several 

 very narrow leaves (a line wide or less), in the stouter scape (3 to 7 

 inches high), in having the thick and fleshy appendage at the base of 

 the filament smooth instead of papillose, and obtuse at the summit 

 instead of bicuspidate, and in the much shorter style, which is shorter 

 than the ovary. — On the mesas near San Diego, California; first col- 

 lected by D. Cleveland in 1874, and recently received from him and 

 from C. R. Orcutt. B. aurea is usually taller and stouter, and with a 

 single much broader leaf (3 to 8 lines wide). 



BRODiiEA (Seubertia) Lkmmon^. Near B. crocea, the some- 

 what scabrous scape a foot high : pedicels less than an inch long : 

 perianth deep orange, 4 to 5 lines long, the segments twice longer than 

 the turbinate tube : filaments in one row at the mouth of the tube, 

 rather stout, terete, nearly equal; anthers 1 to 1^ lines long: ovary 

 very shortly stipitatc, beaked, the cells 3-4-ovuh'd. — Collected on 

 Oak Creek, near Flagstaff, Arizona, by Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Lemmon, 

 August, 1884. 



Camassia esculenta, Lindl. Flowers irregular, the outer or 

 lower segment deflexed, the rest with the stamens and style ascend- 

 ing; segments 3- (sometimes 5) nerved, narrowed and channelled 

 at base, not connivent after opening, but persistent about the base of 

 the capsule : capsule ovate to oblong, obtuse (6 to 9 lines long), equal- 

 ling or exceeding the usually short pedicel, transversely veined : seeds 

 shininjj, oblong-obovate. — Ranjxinfj from British Columbia to Northern 

 California and eastward to Western Montana and the Wahsatch, often 

 very abundant. 



Camassia LKicnxLiNii. (OmttJiogalum Leicli(!inii\ 'Raker. C. es- 

 culenta, var. LeichlUnii, Baker, Bot. Mag. t. 6287.) Flowers very nearly 

 regular, the stamens and style ascending, the segments broader and 

 flattened at base, usually 5-7-nerved, connivent and somewhat twisted 

 after opening and at length deciduous : capsule oblong-obovate, slightly 

 eraarginate at the apex, usujilly 8 to 10 lines long and shorter than the 

 pedicels, obliquely veined: seeds obovate, dull. — In Klickitat County, 

 Washington Territory (Suksdorf) ; at the base of Mount Hood, Ore- 



