14 Contributions to Western Botany. 
coarse; flowers rather few, loose; stamens included; sepals lance- 
olate-acuminate, 3-4” long, midvein ouly red... This may be A. 
Kunthii Don., which is Scheenoprasum lineare HBK. Southern 
and western Texas to southern Arizona and southern iar 
zone. 
20. A. Stellatum Fraser, Ker. Bot. Mag. t 1576. Outer bulb 
coats reddish; peduncles rather tall; ovary 6-crested; reticula- 
tions very, fan and close, linear, sepals 2-3” long; bracts acute; 
stamens exserted. Western edge of the plains from the Sas- 
katchewan to Iowa in the Oak Belt, and reported in north- 
western Texas. 
21. A. Bigelovii Wats. King’s Hop: 5. 487. .. Peduneles 
not over 6’ high; reticulations vertically oblong, broad; pedicels 
stout; sepals oblong-lanceolate, acute, 4-6” long; crests conspicu- 
ous. Arizona and New Mexico. 
A3B2C. Reticula tion tratianoreele oblong, hexagonal. or 
absent, walls not at all sinuous nor beaded, except some 
of the horizontal lines have a few wavresin the species from 
A. attenuifolium to‘A. Per nenince, gelesen fe 
A3B2CD. Spécial reticula tions absent or unknown. 
A3 B2CDE. Leares not longer than the peduncles; peduncles 
not over 6’ high; sepals acute, except in A. scilloides, not 
over 4’’ long. 
A3B2CDEF. Leaves 2; reticulations unknown. 
A3B2CDEFG. Ovary not crested, or obscurely so. 
22. A. scilloides Dougl. Wats, Proc. A.A. 14. 229. Bopale 
oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, 3” long, half longer than the stamens; 
ovary crestless. Columbia rivér, Oregon. 
23. A. collinum Dougl. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, acute, 4” 
long, double the slender stamens; capsule obscurely ridged at the 
summit, Said to be abundant on the Blue Mts., Oregon. An 
obscure species. 
