418 Farr on British Columbian Plants. 
slender decurved pedicels, the pedicel rarely provided with 
a lanceolate bracteole near the middle. Perianth tube very 
short, broadly campanulate, the segments ovate, acute, 
reflexed at the tip, the three outer (sepals) flat, the three 
inner (petals) falcate along the margins, wine-colored, the 
tips green. Stamens six, about one-third the length of the 
perianth, perigynous; anthers ovoid, bifid anteriorly, the 
walls strongly papillose over the upper half. Ovary pro- 
vided with stomata, broadly ovate below, conical above, 
terminated by a minute, tri-lobate, stigmatic area. Style 
none. Berry 4 to 6 lines in diameter, at first obscurely 
three-angled, later globose, about twelve-seeded, bright red. 
Seeds oval to obovate, the outer, rounded surface ridged, the 
raphal surface flat, smooth, white. 
Glacier; flowering specimens, June 30, 1904; fruiting 
specimens, August 22, 1904. 
The present species and genus were defined by Regel in the 
“Nouv. Mém. Soc. Nat. Mosc.,” XI (1859), page 122. The 
description is reproduced in Mr. J. G. Baker’s monograph on 
the “‘Asparagaceae,”’ published in the “Journal of the Lin- 
naean Society,” Volume XIV (1875) page 593, in which he 
implies that the plant was gathered in the flowering state, 
as he says, “Baccam non vidi’ ; but he seems to have over- 
looked the following sentence in Regel’s description : “Bacca 
rubra. Semina striata, albo-lutescentia.” On page 592 he 
describes Steptopus? brevipes, Baker, which was wanting in 
flowers, but which had fruit described as “Bacca 3—4 
lin. crassa, seminibus pluribus oblongo-clavatis.” Regel’s 
and Baker’s forms are evidently the same. My specimens 
were gathered around Glacier, B. C., in the Selkirk Moun- 
tains, at an altitude of 4,093 feet. Baker’s S.? brevipes 
is recorded from “Oregon ad Cascade Mountains, 49° N. 
lat., Dr. Lyall.” The distribution of Kruhsea Tilingiana is 
given by Baker as “Sitka, Eschscholtz; Ajan, Tiling; In 
ditione fluminis Amur, Maximowicz.” 
In the Gray Herbarium at Cambridge are specimens 
