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woalJ pass for geuuiue T, rubra. It fonus mats a foot broad, 



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more or less, and answers perfectly to Kindberg's description 

 of the Swedish perennial state of this species. From the 

 peculiar character of the soil, and other considerations, I can 

 not doubt that this plant is indigenous at San Francisco. 



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This view is confirmed by my having this year collected the 

 same plant, upon similar ground, in Knight's Valley at the 

 western base of ]Mt. St. Helena; .and still later Mr. Jepson 

 brings it from the lower Sacramento. It differs from the 

 typical T, rubra in no other points save its great size, and 

 the perennial duration. 



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Breyooetia vexusta. Conn and leaves as in B. Ida-Main, 

 but the scape not as tall (1 or 2 feet): flowers more numer- 

 ous in the umbel, and on shorter pedicels: perianth about an 

 inch long, the ovate segments about | inch, recurved, the 

 whole organ of a rich deep rose-purple on the outside, but 

 the staminodia and the inside of the perianth-segments pink- 

 ish: anthers much shorter than the staminodia. 



This elegant species is known to me only in plants now 

 flowering in the garden o£ the University, at Berkeley. The 

 corms were purchased from a dealer, as those of B. Jda- 

 Maia; but the perianth in that species is fully a third larger, 

 its tube deep scarlet, the segments being of a light green; 

 its anthers also are more than equal to the staminodia in 

 length, i. e., slightly exserted beyond them. The perianth iu 

 the new species is distinctly constricted under the segments, 

 and the segments are notably larger in proportion to the 

 length of the tube; so that this plant decidedly weakens the 

 genus, tending to unite the type to Brodioca. 



Fritillaria recurva, var. coccinea. More slender than 

 the type, only a foot or two in height, few-leaved and only 1 

 to 3-flowered; perianth a third smaller, or even only half as 

 large, of a brighter scarlet, more strictly campanulate in form, 

 and the tips of the segments not in the least recurved. 



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