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many flowers, the great abundance of the latter making them 

 smaller, and excess of sunlight reducing the size of parts and nar- 

 rowing the petals. Such elemental facts should hardly need to be 

 stated but it seems that some of onr College men have yet to dis- 

 cover them. The time was that after securing their Ph. D*. we 

 gave our young men their final polish bv a few years in Germany, 

 but now we shall have to do it in the kindergarten — or the 



woodshed. 



The petals of Veratrum are described as sessile, but all have a 

 short and thick claw, those of Calif ornicuia are often lacerate on 

 the upper margins, the flowers are rotate to oampmulate, the bas- 

 al nerves are impressed, the stamens have recurved tips, and all 

 species have the base of filaments dtdtoid-eularged. 



Calochoktus. After a generation of field work there are 

 several species I do not yet know well, but I omit most of these. I 

 offer the scheme below as a more natural arrangement. 



Calochortus Watsoni n. sp. 



I propose Calochortus Watsoni for the plant generally known 

 as C. Nuttallh T. & G., but not the plant described by them in 

 £ac. R. R. I 124. That plant is C. Leichtlinii Hooker and Nuttal- 

 Iii var subalpmus Jones, it is the only species like it growing in 

 the uigii Sierras and is at once separable by the sagittate anthers. 



1 he amount of divergence and length of the lobes vary, but never 

 is absent. C. Watsoni is the plant of Watson in King's Report as 

 to specimens collected under the name of Xuttallii, is the plant de- 

 scribed in Coulter's manuals, etc, but for convenience I designate 

 all material distributed by me under Nuttaliii as the types, except 

 the t rieties. Watsoni is rarely less than 2 ft. high, the other rare- 



y more than 1 ft. ; Watsoni has stem leaves and bracts broad at 

 base anu abruptly contracted into a long filiform tail, the other 



has leaves tapering gradually from base; the anthers of both are 

 strongly ribbed as, uGunnisoni; the petals of both are similar 

 but the gland of Nuttailii is oblong and not bee-hive-shaped as in 

 the other and the petals are normally with a large ovate purple 



I n *T tb , e m \ ddle ' While in Watsoni t'»eyhave g a reversed V- 

 2h?M?# ^S^P W * Cre8cent * Httl * *»J " b °™ the gland; 

 n„ m?nff ^ U tal J" f re W08tl J broadl >- lanceolate and shortly a- 

 «n« «i <w*l " U £ S 10rter than the li,iear »«« long-acuminate 

 nZ w ?' th t lattC T ab0nuds from the dr v Juniper mesas of 

 SfrTwS t^'ough southern Utah to the foot of the Sierras and 



IndlZt IwTl Ye 7 rUre in Montaua W found there at all) 

 and Idaho, aiost of the plants of the north referred here are large 



