28 Contributions to Western Botany. 
bulbs without a rhizoma or rootstock, erect or nearly so, 
propagating by division only (by the production of Iittle 
nipples on the lower corners which soon turn into divis- — 
P. 5; 
ions of the main bulb), ovate, 1’ or more long and with a 
rather prolonged apex, proper bulb very small within the 
coats; peduncles not winged. 
2AB. Pedicels slender, about 1’ long and evidently sinuous’ 
generally bearing bulbs instead of some or all of the flow- 
ers; Slender and tall plants, 1-2° high, when fully developed; 
outer bulb coats conspicuously and coarsely fibrous. 
54. A. Geyeri Wats. Proc. A. A. 14 227. Flowers in the 
type 4” long, the sepals broad, acute or acuminate, strongly 
nerved or rigid in fruit; bracts 2, rather small; capsule conspicu- 
ously and centrally crested. Idaho to Oregon and northward. 

A. fibrosum Rydberg, seems to be identical with the type of 4 
A. Geyeri. 
55. Var, temerum n. var., is a very slender form, about 2° 
high with elliptical and acute bulblets, about 2” long and very 
pale and delicate; flowers with oblong-ovate sepals less than 3” 
long, not rigid; grows in very wet and boggy places in alpine 
meadows, Deer Lake, Washington Co , Idaho, in July. No. 6597 
also grows in the Wallowa Mts., Oregon, and probably is identical 
with Watson’s 1181 from Bear River valley, Wyoming, near 
Evanston, 
56. A.Canadense I. Sp. 1195. Flowers about 3” long; 
sepals narrowly lanceolate, obtusish; bracts generally 3; capsule 
without crests; bulb coats apparently triple, the inner membrane 
having the markings of A. cernuum, the outer one with prominent 
hexagonal meshes like those of A. acuminatum but the walls 
neither beaded nor raised, the middle membrane is thick and 
fibrous; bulble!s ovate and fully 3” long; stems rather stout- 
This abounds from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico and westward 
to the Rocky Mountains. 
rubrum Osterhuut Torr. Bull.27 £06. Scapes 1}-2° high, 
round, smooth, glaucous, longer than the leaves; leaves abont 4, _ 
