8 Contributions to Western Botany. 
broadly elliptical and barely acute; stamens loug-exserted; fila- 
ments slender, not enlarged at base. This includes A, recurva- 
tum Rydberg FI. Mont. 94, which is described as having more 
slender peduncles, larger bracts, sepals with more distinet veins 
and narrower not keeled leaves with rounded cross section, not 
flattened, flowers brighter red; but the characters given do not 
hold at all. This grows mostly in the pine belt (Middle Tem- 
perate) reanone of the mountains of Colorado and Utah, but is— 
also found in Texas and throughout Southern British America 
to Alaska. It blooms in July. 
Neo- poe Rydberg Torr. Bull. 26 541. Bulb 
bracts very small; sepals oblong ovate, acute, nearly white, 
without midvein; stamens and style exserted. Vhis appears to 
be a form of A. cernuum. rgan Mountains, New Mexico, also 
Arizona and south Colorado. 
A. cernuum var. obtusum Cockerell, seems to be one of the 
usual forms of the species. 
6. A. haematochiton Watson Proc. A.A. 14 227. Bulbs erect 
or ascending, clustered, coats sometimes 4’ long, loose, generally 
brilliant-dark-purple as well as the shining bulblet at their base 
this sometimes projects its entire length below the mother coat, 
like a claw; Jeaves filiform, many; peduncles not hooked; pedi- 
cels not over 6” long, enlarged at tip; sepals almost acute 
to acuminate, open, broadly elliptical to lanceolate; stamens 
variable, filaments abruptly dilated at base, which is oblong 
and attached high up; capsule slightly if at all crested on the 
corners. This grows from the Sierras at Soda Springs, Nevada 
Co., California, to Mexico and blooms from April to July. 
A. Californicum Rose Cont. Nat. Herb. 1 12. Leaves mostly 
shorter than the scape; bracts 2, ovate, acute; flowers 4-5, dark 
purple; pedicels 5-8” long; sepals lanceolate- acuminate; stamens | 
included; promeely is a form of the above. Lagoon Head, Lower 
Calif. Palmer 
A2B2C. Bulbs erect, or nearly so, generally a little oblique at 
