
18 Contributions to Western Botany. 
the Sierra Nevadas, Mono to Nevada Co., Calif. Reported from — 
Steamboat Springs, Colorado, but probably an error. 
34. Var. Diehlii n. var. Bracts 2; leaves from double toa : 
third longer than the peduncles, 4-6’ long, 2” wide; pedicels 4-8” 
long, many; flowers white with brown midrib; outermost bulb 
coats very dark-red normally, rarely white; sepals erect, rot 
spreading, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate-acuminate, the inner 
ones narrower, half longer than the stamens; filaments narrowly 
deltoid at base and adherent to sepals; reticulations normally 
short-oblong io even linear-oblong and closely packed, but 
among these cells there are often irregular ones, which are some- 
times as broad as long; bracts shortly acuminate, about 6” long; 
Ovary spongy- and sulcate-crested, the crests not evident in fruit; 
bulbs nearly spherical, about 6” long, the coats generally all 
dark red. No. 6590, Jones. Collected at Altus, Utah, 8,000° 
altitude, in the upper edge of the Oak Belt, blooming in May. 
A3B2C2DE2F. Reticulations nearly rectangular, leaves soli- 
tary, longer than the scape; Scapes not over 6’ high; pedi- 
cels short. 
A3B2C2DE2FG. Capsule not crested; very small and delicate 
plants growing at high elevations. 
35. A. ambiguum n. sp. Leaf 1 , 1-3” wide, not falcate, flat; 
bracts rarely 3, about 4” long, broadly ovate and triangular- 
acuminate; pedicels 2-4” long; flowers more than 10; 3” long, 
oblong-bell-shaped; sepals elliptic-lanceolate, obtuse, with a 
broad, brown-purple midrib and white margins, half longer than 
the filiform filaments, 3” Jong; bulbs oval-ovate 
thin membranous coats, at least one of the coats in the type 
specimens verdigris-colored, coats about 5, rest of bulb solid and 
corm-like, the outer ones marked with prominent, normally 
6-sided meshes, which run from nearly Square to hexagonal or 
horizontally oblong-diamond-shaped in the middle of coat but 
vertical elsewhere. This was found growing on alpine ridges at 
Sammit, Calif., in bloom July 26, 1900. This may be related to 
