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Var. (?) ALBIFLORUM, Hook. Flowers large, white with yellow 
and orange base: leaves mottled.— Fl. Bor.-Am. 2. 182; Regel, 
Gartenfl. 1874, t. 767, f. 1-4. EH. giganteum, Lindl. 1. c. ?; Hook. 
Bot. Mag. t. 5714. #. grandiflorum, Van Houtte, Fl. Serres, t. 
2117. Washington Territory. 
Var. (?) minor, Morren. Flowers small (an inch long), bright 
yellow. — Belg. Hort. 26. 109, t. 6. Utah and Colorado. 
Var. (?) Smirau, Hook. Flowers large, tinged with purple or 
rose-color: filaments often dilated: ovary broader and more obtuse. 
—Fl. Bor.-Am. 2. 182. 4. revolutum, Smith, Rees’ Cyc. Van- 
couver Island; Mendocino County, California (n. 4709, Bolander). 
5. E. Hartweci. Bulb small: leaves usually more or less 
separated, apparently mottled, often rather small: flowers solitary, or 
2 or 3 ina sessile umbel, light yellow and orange, 1 or 2 inches long, 
the segments spreading or scarcely recurved: filaments usually short, 
slender; anthers 2 to 4 lines long: ovary ovate-oblong. — #. grandi- 
florum, Benth. Pl. Hartw. 339. Sierra Nevada (Placer to Plumas 
Counties). 
6. E. purPURASCENS, Watson. Bulb an inch or two long: leaves 
undulate, often large: flowers usually 4 to 8 in a pedunculate sub- 
umbellate raceme, light yellow tinged with purple, deep orange at base, 
9 to 12 lines long: pedicels very unequal: anthers a line or two long: 
style clavate: capsule narrow, about an inch long. — Proc. Amer. 
Acad. 12. 277. E. grandiflorum, var. multiflorum, Torr. Pacif. R. 
Rep. 4. 146, and var. multiseapidea, Wood, Proc. Philad. Acad. 1868, 
166. Fritillaria multiscapidea, Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad. 1. 46. 
E. revolutum, Baker, Gard. Chron. 1876, 138, seems to be only a very 
slender 1-flowered form of this species. Sierra Nevada (Placer to 
Plumas Counties). 
29. LLOYDIA, Salish. 
1. L. seroTINA, Reichenb. Stem 2 to 6 inches high, equalling the 
leaves: flowers erect, usually solitary ; perianth-segments oblanceolate, 
obtuse, obscurely pitted at base, 4 or 5 lines long, exceeding the sta- 
mens and style: capsule obovate, obtusely angled, 4 lines long: seeds 
chestnut-colored. — Ornithogalum bracteatum, Torrey, Ann. Lye. 
N. Y 2. 251. Cronyxium serotinum and Fenelonia bracteata, Raf. 
Alpine and arctic regions of the northern hemisphere; Alaska and 
Arctic Coast, Rocky Mountains of Colorado to 38° lat., and on the 
Clover Mountains, Nevada. 
