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gon (ITowell) ; in the Sierra Nevada, Yosemite Valley, etc. (Brido-es, 

 Torrey, Gray), and at Puuta de los Reyes, Marin County, California 

 (Bigelow). Mr. Suksdorf, as well as the Messrs. Howell, called atten- 

 tion in 1880 to the distinct characters of this species, and the more 

 recent full and careful notes and abundant specimens of Mr. Suksdorf, 

 upon which the above descriptions are based, confirm their opinion. 

 The plant described and figured by Mr. Baker, as cited, appears to be 

 essentially the same. White flovvers are not very unusual in G. escu- 

 lenta, and may be expected in this species also, as he represents them. 

 Mr. Suksdorf notes respecting it that the flowers are usually larger and 

 deeper colored than in C. esculcnta, the stem stouter but less tall, the 

 leaves mostly broader, often flat and spreading, and glaucous above. 



Hastingsia bracteosa. Bulb an inch in diameter: leaves elon- 

 gated, 1 to 1^^ feet long or more by 1 to 3 lines wide: scape about two 

 feet high ; bracts of the very sparingly branched panicle filiform- 

 attenuate, nearly equalling the flowers, which are 4 lines long on very 

 short pedicels : petals white, linear-lanceolate, twice longer than the 

 stamens ; filaments inserted above their base : style stout, nearly as 

 long as the ovary and equalling the stamens. — On " Eigh Dollar 

 Mountain," Curry County, Oi'egon, by Thomas Howell, May, 1884, 

 with Darlingtonia a,nd Ci/pripedhcm CaUforaicum. This second spe- 

 cies confirms in every way the distinctive characters of the genus, aud 

 is distinguished from H. alba especially by its comparatively longer 

 leaves, more conspicuous bracts, twice larger flowers, and shorter sta- 

 mens. H. alba was also collected by Mr. Howell on hillsides near 

 Kerbyville, Oregon, with mature fruit, which is broadly ovate, nearly 

 3 lines long, very shortly stipitate, the oblong seeds 2 lines long, with 

 black shining testa. 



LiLiUM BoLANDERi. Bulb ovatc. of numerous lanceolate scales 1 to 

 n inches long: stems h to 3 feet high, 1-2-flowered : leaves mostly 

 verticillate and approximate, oblanceolate, acute, glaucous beneath, 

 1 to 2.iy inches long : flowers horizontal or somewhat nodding, '• dingy 

 purple" (Rattan) or "dark brownish red" (Howell), becoming some- 

 what paler, spotted, the segments \\ to 1| inches long, but slightly 

 spreading, rarely at all recurved : anthers 2 or 3 lines long, the ovary 

 and style 9 or 10 lines long. — In the Red Hills, Humboldt County, 

 California, by Bolander (n. Gar^H, in pari) in 1807 ; near Areata, on 

 Humboldt Bay, California, by Volney Rattan in 1878, and on the 

 summit between Illinois and Smith Rivers, near the State boundary, in 

 1879 ;■ and in the same region by Tliomas Howell, June, 1884. A well- 

 marked species, allied to L. jKO'vum and L. maritiinum. 



