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leaves 4 to 10 lines broad: flowers white, purple-veined, 8 to 10 lines 
long, on spreading pedicels 2 to 9 lines long: capsule 3 lines long. — 
Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. t. 60; Baker, Journ. Linn. Soc. 18. 291. 
Anthericum, Ker, Bot. Reg. t. 564. Scezlla, DC.; Red. Lil. t. 421. 
Phalangium, Don, Sweet’s Fl. Gard. 2 ser. t. 381. Ornithogalum 
divaricatum, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 28, t. 28. (©. divaricatum, Kunth. 
California (valleys and foothills, from the Upper Sacramento to Tuol- 
umne County and Santa Barbara). 
* * Perianth-segments oblong-oblanceolate, spreading from above the base: 
pedicels very short. 
2. C. PARVIFLORUM. Bulb smaller (an inch thick), with dark 
membranous coats: stem 2 or 3 feet high, with slender divaricate 
branches: leaves grass-like (2 or 3 lines broad): pedicels rarely a 
line or two long, mostly shorter than the bracts: flowers pinkish, 
3 or 4 lines long: ovary broad and obtuse: capsule smaller (scarcely 
2 lines in diameter). —S. California (Cajon Valley, near San Diego ; 
D. Cleveland, 1877). Z 
3. C. ANGUSTIFOLIUM, Kellogg. Resembling -the last: flowers 
white with yellowish-green lines, 3 to 6 lines long, narrow at base; 
the ovary being oblong-ovate, acutish above, and shortly stipitate. 
— Proc. Calif. Acad. 2. 105, fig. 30. California (Shasta County, 
Kellogg; near Yuba, A. Wood). 
16. ODONTOSTOMUM, Torr. 
1. O. Hartwee!, Torr. Stem a foot or two high, branching from 
the ground: corm deep-seated, an inch in diameter: leaves rather 
short, flat or somewhat uwndulate, 4 to 6 lines wide: racemes loosely 
many-flowered ; bracts and bractlets very narrow: pedicels usually 
very slender and exceeding the bracts: flowers 4 to 6 lines long; 
segments of the limb oblong: style equalling the tube: capsule nearly 
2 lines long. — Bot. Mex. Bound. 150, t. 24; Baker, Journ. Linn. 
Soc. 11. 486. Foothills of the Sierra Nevada (Butte to Amador 
Counties). 
17. CONVALLARIA, Linn. 
1. C. masatts, Linn. Leaves broadly elliptic to oblanceolate, 
exceeding the angular scape: perianth 3 lines long and nearly as 
broad: berry 3 or 4 lines in diameter. — Alleghanies (Virginia to 
S. Carolina) ; apparently identical with the plant of Europe and Asia 
(or lobes narrower and more acute ?). 
