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** Flowers brownish-purple, not tessellated. Fr. wingless. 

 F. Kamtschatcensis Gawl. Bulbs granulated ; leaves lanceolate, irregularly 

 verticillate ; flowers 1 — 3, pendulous, brown-purple, spotless, bell-forui, much 

 longer than their pedicels ; segments lance-elliptical, acute, veins inside more 

 or less lamellated ; nectaries oblong ; capsule obtusely 6-angled. — Coast, San 

 Diego to Sitka (and Karatschatka). The bulb consists of thick farinaceous 

 scales, loosely conjoined. Stem 8 — 12'. February — April. [F. biftora Lindl.) 



F. RECURVA Benth. Stem tall, naked at base ; leaves linear or oblong-linear, 

 some whorled near the middle of the stem ; flowers several, subcylindrical, 

 suberect ; segments oblong, rejiexed aX the end, longer than their pedicels ; stig- 

 mas subconnate ; ovary oblong, fr. wingless. — California (Hooker), Umpqua 

 Valley, Oregon (Mrs. Royal). 2 f. Flowers 1^ inches long, light purple. 



*** Flowers yellow. Capsule wingless. 

 F. LiLiACEA Lindl. Stem leafy at base ; leaves oblong-lanceolate and 

 linear, the lower whorled or opposite ; flowers 1 — 5, racemed, nodding, bell- 

 form, with a narrow base, yellow ; pedicels erect, longer than the bracts ; cap- 

 sule oblong, blunt at both ends ; style 3-cleft. — San Francisco (Dr. Slillman), 

 Benicia (Rev. J. P. Moore), to Nevada. 8 — 14''. Nectary a groove. Very 

 pretty. March. 



F. PUDicA Spreng. Low ; leaves lance-linear and linear, opposite or scat- 

 tered ; flower solitary, nodding, bell-form, yellow ; peduncle as long as the 

 bract, recurved at top ; segments oblong-obovate, obtuse ; style and stigma 

 undivided; ovary wingless. — Dalles of the Columbia (Mrs. Wilson), and east. 

 6 — 2'. Leaves few, 3''. Nectaries nearly obsolete, hence first named by Pursh 

 a Lilium [L. pudicum). 



Yucca aloifolia L.? — Hills, near the Hot Springs, San Bernardino (March 

 10th), only the leaves and the dead scapes of the preceding year. Leaves 

 densely capitate near the ground, 12 — 15' by 1', very rigid, sharply serrulate, 

 glaucous, ending in a strong spine. Scapes very stout, 10 — 15 f. high. 



Y. graminifolia (n. sp. ?) — Mountains twelve miles east of Los Angeles 

 (March 3d). Saw only leaves, and dead scapes with the fruit. Leaves very 

 numerous, in a dense radical crown, linear, 2 f. by 3 — 4'', glaucous, not very 

 rigid, rough-serrulate, rouud-carinate, involute above, and ending in a sharp 

 spine. Scape 10 — 15 f. high, paniculately branched, bearing hundreds of 

 "white, bell-form, pendulous " (Mr. Hoover) flowers. Capsule 1' thick, l.Klong, 

 6-lobed, 6-celled, packed full of disc-form, thin, black seeds. The leaves are 

 not at all filamentous. 



Y. FiLAME.NTOSA L. ? — Mountaius east of Los Angeles, with the last. Only 

 the leaves seen (March 3d), which are densely clustered, yellowish-green, with 

 brown spots and transverse lines at intervals, with no midvein, thick, lance- 

 linear, rolled above and sharp-pointed, margin splitting into strong, recurved 

 filaments. 



CALOCHORTUS, Pursh. (Kuxic, beautiful, ;t=>Toc, grass.) 

 {Cyclobothra and Calochortus of authors.) 

 Perianth 6-parted, regular, deciduous ; segments distinct, contorted in aesti- 

 vation ; sepals oblong or lance-linear, spreading, much smaller than the petals ; 

 petals connivent or spreading, broadly obovate, cuneate-unguiculate, bearded 

 within, with a glabrous spot above the base; stamens 6, perigynous ; fil. 

 subulate ; anthers linear- oblong, deeply perforated at base where ttie filament 

 is inserted ; ovary free, 3-angled ; style very short or none ; stigmas recurved, 

 persistent on the 3-celled, 3-valved, chartaceous capsule; seeds angular, one 

 row in each cell. — Bulbous erect herbs of the North American Pacific States. 

 Leaves narrow, acuminate. Flowers few, terminal, solitary, nodding or erect, 

 showy. 



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