152 ERYTHEA. 
oblong lobes 4 inch long; hoods clear white, sub-cylindrical, 
little exceeding the anthers, the broad and elongated ensiform 
horn adherent to the hood and long exserted, nearly straight: 
anthers dark-purple. 
Dry limestone ledges near Los Palmas, San Luis Potosi, 
Mexico, C. G. Pringle, n. 3786. 
Muilla serotina. Leaves 12 to 16 inches long, subterete, 
the upper surface nearly plane (slightly concave), the lower 
convex and sharply 7-striate, the keel-like raised strie 
retrorsely scabrous: scapes 14 to 20 inches high, glabrous, 
laucous: umbel 40 to 70-flowered; pedicels nearly 2 inches 
long: perianth rotate, 4 inch broad, greenish white; sepals 
oblong-linear, petals oblong: filaments stout-subulate, little 
compressed; anthers 4 line long, lurid purple. 
Common among the mountains in the interior of southern 
California; much larger than the seaboard species (M. 
maritima), and with very different foliage. Under culti- 
vation at Berkeley, where we have grown it for three seasons 
past, it flowers in June and July; M. maritima in March 
and April. 
CaLocHoRTUs ALBUS var. (?) rubellus. ‘Tall, slender, 
few-flowered; the perianth rose-color, more elongated and 
comparatively narrower than in the type, the transverse 
lunate gland farther from the base of the petal (well towards 
the middle of it) and broader, 7. e., not as thin-crescent- 
shaped: filaments nearly linear, fully three-fourths the 
length of the ovary; anthers surpassing even the stigmas, 
and of a clear yellow. 
A remarkable variety, or subspecies, of which I had heard 
rumors, but the first specimens of which are now brought to 
me from Pacific Grove, Monterey Oo., Oalif., by Mr. Ivar 
Tidestrom. A point of divergence from C. albus more 
striking than even the form and color of the petals is that 
which the stamens exhibit; for in the old species the fila- 
ments are subulate, not more than half as long as the ovary, 
and the anthers and pollen are pure white. It may therefore 
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