SOME SPECIES OF DODECATHEON. 213 
DopECcATHEON CRUCIATUM. A foot or more in height, some- 
what slender, glabrous, the inflorescence only very slightly 
glandular, deep green, the scape and involucral bracts finely 
purple-dotted: roots mostly, or wholly, dying after the 
flowering period, the minute tubers formed above them inde- 
pendently : leaves far less numerous than in the preceding, 
fleshy and depressed, the broadly oval entire lamina tapering 
to a broad petiole of more than its own length: flowers 
always 4-merous : corolla of a rich deep reddish purple except 
a yellowish ring above the dark purple base: androecium 
elongated, fully 3 lines long; filaments joined into a tube 
Which is dark purple throughout, the external raised append- 
ages composed of a mass or irregularly sinuous folds; 
anthers dark-purple, 2 lines long, linear, somewhat narrowed 
atthe abruptly notehed apex, erect, neither divergent from 
hor eonvergent around the exserted style: capsule cylindri- 
cal, cireumscissile at top ; seeds obscurely polyhedral, amber- 
colored, distinctly favose-reticulate. 
This is the common species at and about San Francisco, 
extending southward to Monterey, perhaps Santa Barbara, 
and eastward to Mt. Diablo. In Humboldt County it is re- 
placed by that which I leave under the name D. Hendersoni, 
notwithstanding my expectation that it will prove to be the 
real D. ellipticum. And that northern plant differs from 
D. cruciatum in its propagation by root-metamorphosis ; 
flowers always 5-merous; corollas light rose-purple without 
yellow; anthers proportionately longer and quite acute; 
moreover, its involueral braets are broader, shorter, and far 
more numerous. 
DODECATHEON CLEVELANDI. A foot or two high, pale green 
and glanü&lar: new roots formed not at the end of the dry 
season bu#at its beginning, remaining dormant through the 
summer, rio tubers formed either originally or by root-meta- 
morphosis: leaves scarcely fleshy, not depressed but ascend- 
. ing or erect, spatulate-obovate, the margins erose: flowers 
5-merous : corolla bright-purple with a yellow base and some 
