30 Contributions to Western Botany. 
(Named by Fraser but first published by Don). Capsule distinctly 
and centrally crested in the type; bracts 2; pedicels about 6” 
long; bulbs large, generally; leaves nearly 2” wide. A very vari- 
able plant, as generally understood; mountain forms are slender 
and the sepals very variable, the crests being always small and 
ceutral. From the Saskatchewan to northern Arizona, through- — 
out Colorado. 
- Var. deserticola n. var. Stout and robust plants, 
rarely over 6’ high; leaves surpassing the stems; bulbs often 
2’ long and 1’ thick, yery densely and coarsely fibrous; ped- 
icels stout; sepals oblong and acute mostly, about 3” long; 
crests very long and conspicuous; bracts 3. This abounds on 
the adobe plains of eastern Utah, south of the Uintas and west- 
ern Colorado and southward to Texas. Blooms in May and 
une. 
reticulation, bright rose-colored flowers, 5-7” long on pedi- 
cels over I’ long, the ovate-lanceolate, acute sepals exceed- 
ing the stamens; this is found throughout the Voast range of 
California. 
A. monospermum Jepson Man. Bay Region 321, and A. 
Alleghenense Small are also unknown to the writer. 
The other species, A. tricoccum Ait. Hort. Kew 1 428, 
belongs to a distinct group, which is clesely allied to the A. 
validum group and is characterized by having rootstocks 
beneath the czspitose bulbs, also the usual membranous 
coats of that group; valyes 2; peduncles not winged; leaves 2 
or 3, elliptical-lanceolate; ovules solitary in the cells; bulb 
coats fleshy, the outer becoming fibrous; plants 4-12’ high; 
flowers greenish white; sepals 2-3” long; capsule not crested. 
New England to Wisconsin, and south to Kentucky and 
North Carolina. 

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