16 Contributions to Western Botany. 
where the meshes are vertical, narrow or rectangluar; sepals 
rather lead-purple, narrewly lanceolate, 4-5” long, rather stiff; 
ovar’ lacerate-crested; stamens about two-thirds the sepals; 
bulbs propagate by the production of brilliant, shiny bulblets at . 
the base, which point downward and outward and often produce 
short runners at their apex, having 1 or more enlargements 
along them and so forming a string of shiny bulblets; scapes not 
slender, a few inches high, strict; leaves coiled at tip; grows in 
the Oak Belt on the east side of the Sierras, Carson City to 
Owen’s Valley. May to June. 
A3B2CDE2F2G. Pedicels 3-5”? long; crests cars ieee fim. . 
Driate and very long g, glandular toothed in A. cristatum 
28. A. fimbriatum Wats. Proe. A. A. 14 232. Bulb un- 
known; peduncles 3’ long; pedicels 3-4” long; flowers deep rose- 
colored, 5’ long; sepals Loiseoiats nearly half longer than the 
stamens; stigma 3-cleft with linear lobes; braets probably. 2; 
soutbern Calif., on the Mojave river. 
29. A. decipiens n.sp. Plants about 2’ above the ground; 
leaf long-sheathing, probably longer than the peduncles; bracts 4, 
ovate, equaling the pedicels, which are about 4-5” long; sepals 
ovate-lanceolate, 4” long, a little exceeding the stamens; stigma 
entire; bulb nearly Paad. coats shining, without reticulation in 
the middle, but with traces of rectangular-oblong ones toward 
the base and apex, which are vertically arranged, all the coats 
thin. Sumfhit, Owen’s Valley, Calif., 7,000° elevation. May, 
1897 
30. A.cristatum Wats. Proc. A. A. 14 232. Peduncles 
about 1-3’ high; bulb coats brownish, with very faint quadrangu- 
Jar reticulation; bracts acuminate; pedicels 3- 4” long; sepals 
tinged with he 5” long, lanceolate-acuminate, nearly double 
the stamens; crests very long, acute, somewhat glandular toothed. 
Southern U tah at St. George. 
A3SB2CD2E. Leaves 1 or 2, longer than the peduncle; ovary 
lJong-crested; very ih, 2 and small plants, a few inches high 
and Sslerider Sete 
