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ending abruptiy and crowned by ong or more bulbs which root 
on the lower side and have many dead coats at base on the out- 
side, they are also very much smaller than in A. validum, with 
stems about 1-2” thick and not over14° high; peduncles obscurely 
winged; leaves about half as long as the stems, 6-10’ long, about 
2” wide, with 8-10 ribs; bract 1; pedicels about 1’ long; flowers 
about 4” long; filaments deltoid at base and aduate nearly to the 
top of the broad portion; anthers very broadly-oblong, 4 the 
length of those in A. validum. This grows iv the high moun- 
tains ef Utah and northward to the Big Horn Mts., Wyoming, 
and in Montana. It is also found in Colorado. 
‘A2BCD2E. Flowers few, white; capsule long-crested. 
4. A. Plummerze Watson Proc. A. A. 18 195. Bracts 2, 
long-acuminate, 1’ long, as long as the slender pedicels; sepals 
lanceolate, acute, 4” long, longer than the stamens. ‘This grows 
in Tanner’s Canon, Huachuca Mts., S. Arizona. 
A2BC2D. Bulbs with an ovate base and prolonged apex, the 
whole 2-4’ long, bulbs not arising from a rootstock, coats 
reddish; leaves about half as long as the peduncles, flat; 
stems Slender, about 1-114° high, not at all winged nor flat- 
_ tened except at the short clavate tip; stamens more or less 
exserted; flowers roSe-colored, few to many, Sepals about 2’’ 
long; capsules crested; pedicels filiform; bulb rooting along 
the lower corner, and so is oblique, propagating by divi- 
sion into about two bulblets, which are produced at the 
crown of the roots and occupying the same sheath as the 
mother bulb; the shining body of the bulblet projects more 
or less below the mother bulb. 
5. A. cernuum Roth. Roem. Arch. 1 pt. 3 40. Bulbs as- 
cending, never quite erect, tip of new bulb barely | projecting 
beyond the mother coat; alternate bulb coats thicker and all 
coats close together; leaves linear to narrowly so, 1-2” wide; 
peduncles enlarged at very tip and hooked; pedicels very slen- 
der, about 4-1’ long; flowers bell-shaped to urn-shaped; sepals 
