Contributions to Western Botany. 11 
istic long underground sheathed stem of thisgroup. Thisspecies is 
found chiefly from Southwestern Idaho and Oregon to British 
Columbia, but has been reported from Utah and Nevada. The 
following are the forms which have been described as species: 
A. Cusickii Wats. Proc. A. A. 14 228 is a form jess than 6’ high 
with lanceolate, broadly acuminate sepals nearly twice as long as 
the stamens, and ovary cells with a little point on each corner; 
Union County, Oregon. Also found on the Clearwater, central 
Idaho. .A. pleianthum Wats. Proc. A. A. 14 232. This differs 
from A. Cusickii only in having the ovary conspicuously 6- 
crested and sepals gibbous at base. Has been found in Southern 
Idaho.and Eastern Oregon. A. Tolmiei Baker Bot. Mag.7 6227. 
This is also low, with the usual light purple to pink: flowers with 
lanceolate sepals, ‘acute, gibbous ‘at base, half longer than 
stamens, and obscurédly ‘crested ovary. ' This is recorded from 
Parley’s park, Utah, ‘Southérn Idaho, aad Northward; ’ “probably 
also Western Utah and Nevada, Souk Some of the Nevada 
forms have very narrow leaves 1-2” wide with 3, central, vari- 
able crests, much like A. falcifolium. The Nevada forms are 
probably A. Brandegei. 
12. A. crenulatum Wiegand “Torr. Bull. 26 135, t 355. 
Plants 3-4’ high, from a small and globose bulb; scape winged 
3” wide, edges crenulately roughened as well as the leaves; 
leaves 24-3’ long, 2” wide, recurved; flowers few; sepals pink, 4” 
long, lanceolate, acutish; stamens 4 the sepals; anthers shert- 
oblong; ovary 6-crested at tip; pedicels shorter than the flowers; 
bracts 2, large, ovate, oblong, acute, 4-5” long. Said to be near 
A. Douglasii. Olympic Mts., Wash. bind 
The following species are kept separate from A. Douglasii by 
are almost too closely related, though parvum will stan id. 
13. A. Breweri Wats. Proc. A. A.14 233. Thisdiffers from 
Cusickii in having acute sepals -one-third longer than’ the 
stamens, and ovary and capsule: with a thick,. slightly..tohed 
