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which the scape is about 1° high; bulbs propagate by division; 
lower end of some bulb scales with the markings of A.- Brande- 
gei; leaves shorter than the stems, 1-2”’ wide; pedicels about: 1’ 
long; sepals from ovate to lanceolate-acuminate; stamens ‘nearly 
equaling the sepals; ovary not atall crested. This is manifestly 
very close to A. anceps. 
18. A. Brandegei Wats. Proc. A. A. 17 380. Pediat 
very short, rising but little above the ground, slightly Winged, 
bulbs ovate, markings of some of the outer coats vary on “the 
same bulb from transversely linear to openly and almost regularl§ ¥ 
hexagonal, one of the coats generally thick like A. anceps; leavés” 
rather narrow, about 2” wide; pedicels short, slender, about 4”. 
long; flowers purplish; sepals broadly lanceolate, acute, 3-47 long, 
nearly double the stamens, but variable.to oblong and obtuse: 
A. miser Piper is the same with obtuse sepals. . Gathered by 
Brandegee on the Elk Mts., Colo. First collected by Cleburn 
many years ago at Boise City, Idaho; also by orgaes in eres 
County, Oregon. 
A8B. Peduncles not winged: bulb coats several .to many, . 
marked by 8-12 delicate ribs which do not branch; the 
bulbs often solid within the coats and generally more than 
half of the whole, propagating variously, ovate to spherical, 
generally small, erect, never from a rootstock; bulb, coats 
none of them fibrous-meshed nor becoming a mass of 
interwoven, coarse threads with diamond-shaped meshes 
when old. 
A8BC. Reticulations of the bulb coats vertically oblong or 
‘narrower, in many rows, walls not finely. contorted; gen- 
erally straight; bracts 2, rarely 3 in Acsambigutrn; sepals 
not serrulate; outer bulb coats dark or reddish;'flowérs rose- 

colored; pedicels 2- 9’’ long, slender, except in A. Bigelovii; 
leaves 2 or more, not Surpassing the scape. 
19. A. scaposum Benth. Ovary obscurely, ifat all, 3-crested: 
peduneles 1° or more high; reticulations linear,” straight: wid 
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