50 ERYTHEA. 
anthers oblong, obtuse, ? to 1 line long, yellowish: capsule 
nodding, oblong, 12 to 15 lines long, often with narrow, 
undulate wings: seeds angular, testa tuberculate. 
Oakland hills, in shade. Near Berkeley, Mountain View 
Cemetery, Seminary Park, Laundry Farm, etc. 
This has been referred to C. lilacinus of Kellogg, but it 
differs from that widely in characters of the bulb, absence of 
bulblets, color of petals, and scarcity of pubescence. Mr. 
Carl Purdy has called my attention to the fact that the two 
first sub-sections of § EucaLocuorrus including C. albus, 
pulchellus, amoenus and Benthami, Maweanus, coeruleus, 
elegans, Tolmiei and apiculatus, all grow in wood-lands in 
high, well drained situations; also that none of them are 
bulbiferous; while the species of the third sub-section— 
C. nudus lilacinus and uniflorus—grow in wet meadows or 
along streams, often where the bulbs are under water for 
many months of the year; also that these last-named species 
are notably prolific of bulblets. 
The new species follows apiculatus in Watson’s Lili- 
acec' and C. Maweanus of Greene’s revision of the genus.” 
OPEN LETTERS. 
Publication by signatures. 
Referring to the question raised on page 36 of the Feb- 
ruary issue of EryrTuea, relative to the publication of 
Memoirs Torrey Botanical Club, Vol. 5: containing the 
“List of Pteridophyta and Spermatophyta of Northeastern 
North America” by dated “signatures,” I would state that 
these have been sent to everyone who has applied for them 
as printed, and that any one who cared to ask for them could 
have received them. 
I believe that this is a perfectly well-understood method of 
publication, adopted by a large number of societies, and I 
1 Proc. Am. Acad. xiv., p. 263. 
2 Bay Region Botany, p. 312. 
