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EcueAnpiA, Ort., is a very similar Mexican genus, distinguished 
by linear anthers longer than the short filaments and connivent 
over the ovary. Mr. Baker recognizes one rather variable species, 
E. TERNIFLORA, Ort., which has not been collected within the United 
States. 
13. SCHGZNOLIRION, Torr. 
1. S. croceum, Gray. Stem very slender, a foot high: raceme 
simple, short (1 to 4 inches): bracts ovate, mostly obtuse, purplish: 
flowers yellow tinged with red; segments narrow, 2} to 3 lines long: 
seed nearly 2 lines long. — Amer. Naturalist, 10.427. Phalangium 
croceum, Michx. Anthericum croceum and Nuttallianum, Schult. f. 
Syst. 7. 476. Amblostima crocea, and Oxytria crocea, Raf. Fi. 
Tellur. 26... Ornithogalum (?) croceum and Nuttallianum, Kunth, 
Enum. 4. 371. Georgia to Florida. 
2. S. Texanum, Gray, 1. c. Resembling the last, but flowers 
greenish white: bracts narrower, acutish: seed a line long. — Orni- 
thogalum Texanum, Scheele, Linnea, 23. 146. S. Michauxii, Torr. 
Bot. Mex. Bound. 220, excl. syn. and descr. ‘Texas and Louisiana. 
3. 8. Exrrorrir, Feay. Stem stouter, 2 feet high, less thickened 
at base; racemes usually panicled, becoming 2 to 4 inches long: bracts 
acute or acuminate: flowers white, with oval 5-nerved segments, 2 or 
3 lines long: capsule coriaceous, aud seed nearly 2 lines long. — 
Gray, l.c. Ornithogalum croceum, Elliott. Amblostima albiflora and 
latifolia (?), Raf.l.c. S. Michauxti, Torr.1.¢., mainly. Anthericum 
eroceum, Baker, Journ. Linn. Soe. 15. 297. Georgia and Florida. 
14, HASTINGSIA. 
1. H. arpa. Stem 2 or 3 feet high, often stout: leaves 2 to 6 
lines broad: raceme simple or sparingly branched, densely many- 
flowered (often a foot long): pedicels a line long or less: bracts 
narrowly acuminate: flowers 2 or 3 lines long, often tinged with green 
or pink. — Schenolirion album, Durand, Journ. Acad. Philad. 2. 3. 
103; Gray, Amer. Naturalist, 10.552. Northern California (Plumas 
to Humboldt Counties and northward). 
15. CHLOROGALUM, Kunth. 
* Perianth-segments narrowly ligulate, spreading widely from the base in 
the open flower: pedicels nearly equalling the flowers. 
1. C. pomermp1Anum, Kunth. Bulb large, thickly coated with 
coarse brown fibres: stem and spreading panicle 1 to 3 feet high: 
