22 CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BoTANy No. 17 
pedicels 1-2 inches long. Flowers about ten, half an inch long, whitish or 
yellowish or purplish, with green base and green nerves, with the erect 
rianth broadly linear and rounded at tip. Anthers broadly linear, on fila- 
mm 
long, low-crested. Bulbs deeply set in the ground, often about 6 inches deep. 
Rodeo, Arizona, April 8, 1930. On plains. Also at Del Rio. 
Nothoscordum striatum Kunth. (N. bivalve (L) ?). What appears 
to be this species I have from Rock Springs, Texas, with small bulbs half an 
inch long and with smaller flowers. 
anca, Texas, was one of the localities specially visited by 
Trelease before he published his revision, and on the plants growing there 
The apple-green leaves have 
come to study the area throughout and far down toward the Indian Hot 
prings, Many square miles of them, we find a very different condition, 
