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Var. LILACINA. A stout form, with large flowers, from white 
becoming more or less tinged with lilac. — Mendocino and Humboldt 
Counties. 
6. STROPHOLIRION, Torr. 
1. S. Carirornicum, Torr. Scape lax or often twining, 2 to 12 
feet long, scabrous: pedicels (15 to 30) an inch long or less: flowers 
5 or 6 lines long, with oblong-lanceolate segments: anthers equalling 
the narrrow emarginate white staminodia and the lanceolate acute 
wings of the filaments (2 lines long) : capsule shorter than the perianth. 
— Pacif. R. Rep. 4. 149, t. 23. Rupalleya volubilis, Moriére, Bull. Soc. 
Norm. 8. 313, t. Dichelostemma Californica, Wood, Proc. Acad. 
Philad. 1868, 173. Brodiea volubilis, Baker, Journ. Linn. Soc. 11. 
177; Hook. f. Bot. Mag. t. 6123. Foothills of the Sierra Nevada 
(Mariposa County and northward). 
7. BREVOORTIA, Wood. 
1. B. coccrnea. Scape erect, 1 to 3 feet high, with reddish bracts : 
pedicels (6 to 15) an inch long or less: flowers 12 to 16 lines long, 
with ovate segments 2 or 3 lines in length: anthers equalling the 
limb; staminodia a half shorter, yellow: capsule as long as the peri- 
auth, on a stipe 2 or 3 lines long.— Bb. Jda-Maia, Wood, Proc. 
Acad. Philad. 1867, 82. Brodiea coccinea, Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 
7. 389; Baker, Journ. Linn. Soc. 11. 378; Hook. f. Bot. Mag. t. 5857. 
N. California (Humboldt to Shasta Counties). 
8. ANDROSTEPHIUM, Torr. 
1. A. viotacreum, Torr. Scape 2 to 6 inches high: flowers 8 to 
12 lines long or more, usually exceeding the stout pedicels; tube 
nearly as long as the limb: crown scarcely shorter than the limb, the 
lobes exceeding the anthers. — Bot. Mex. Bound. 218. Milla cerulea, 
Scheele, Linnza, 25. 260. W. Kansas to Texas. 
2. A. BREVIFLORUM, Watson. Scape usually stouter, 3 to 12 
inches high: flowers half an inch long, mostly shorter than the pedi- 
cels, and the tube much shorter than the limb: lobes of the crown 
shorter than the anthers. — Amer. Naturalist, 7. 303. S. Utah to 
S. E. California. 
The Mexican genus Bessrera, of a single species (B. ELEGANS, 
Schult.), is closely allied to Androstephium ; flowers bright scarlet, the 
more spreading segments closely 3-nerved; the elongated filaments 
and style exserted. 
