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nearly twice longer than the stamens and style: capsule not crested. Utah, 

 Colorado, and Wyoming. 



8. Allium Brandegei Wats. Proc. Am. Acad 17: 380. 1882. Bulbs small, 

 the coats membranous, reticulate- veined but not fibrous: leaves 2, exceeding 

 the angular scape: pedicels slender, equal, about 8 mm. long: flowers rose- 

 color; the segments broadly lanceolate, acute, nearly twice longer than the. 

 stamens, not serrulate. From Colorado to Idaho and Montana. 



9. Allium acuminatum Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 184. 1839. Outer bulb-coats 

 with a distinct coarse quadrate to hexagonal reticulation: pedicels 15-25 mm. 

 long: flowers deep rose-color; segments lanceolate, with acuminate recurved 

 tips, rigid in fruit, a third longer than the stamens, the inner ones undulate- 

 serrulate. Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming. 



3. BRODIAEA Smith 



Perennial herbs from corm-like bulbs with nbro-membranous brown coats. 

 Scape erect. Leaves linear. Flowers in terminal umbels with several bracts; 

 pedicels jointed. In ours the perianth is broadly tubular, blue. Stamens 6, in 

 2 rows. Capsule ovate to oblong. 



1. Brodiaea Douglasii Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 14: 237. 1879. Scape 

 'smooth, 3-6 dm. high, erect and usually stout: leaves carinate: perianth tube 

 subsaccate, about equaling the lobes: anthers oblong; the lower on the throat 

 opposite the outer segments, the upper on the inner segments, on a short free 

 filament which forms below a prominent wing within the tube: capsule 6 mm. 

 long, a little exceeding the stipe and slender style: seeds several in each 

 cell. From western Wyoming to Washington and Oregon 



4. CAMASSIA Raf. QUAMASH 



Scape slender, from a tunicated bulb. Leaves linear-lanceolate, carinate. 

 Flowers in a simple raceme, with narrow scarious bracts; pedicels jointed at 

 the summit. Perianth blue or white, of 6 distinct oblanceolate segments. 

 Stamens 6, on the base of the slightly gibbous perianth, shorter than the seg- 

 ments. Style slightly trifid at the apex. Capsule subglobose, 3-lobed and 

 angled, with several black shining seeds in each cell. 



1. Camassia esculenta Lindl. Bot. Reg. 18: t. 1486. 1832. Scape stout, a 

 foot or two high: pedicels rather stout, mostly shorter than the usually dark 

 blue flowers: perianth-segments scarcely exceeding the style, a little longer 

 than the stamens. Western Wyoming and west to California; the bulb 

 formerly largely collected for food by the Indians. 



5. LILIUM L. LILY 



Bulb scaly, stem leafy, simple. Leaves narrow, sessile, whorled or scattered, 

 net- veined. Flowers large and showy, in ours usually solitary and erect. 

 Perianth-segments oblanceolate, witji a linear nectariferous groove, usually 

 spotted. Anthers versatile. Style undivided. 



1. Lilium montanum ,'A. Nels. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 26: 6. 1899. Bulb 

 depressed-globose, of thick fleshy scales: stem 3-4 dm. high: leaves smooth, 

 dark green, alternate except the uppermost whorl of 5-7, lanceolate, sessile: 

 the segments of the single erect flower elliptic-oblong, tapering to both ends, 

 brownish-red to orange-red, the base of the inner face dotted with purplish- 

 black spots: stamens and stigma purplish: capsule oblong-cylindric. L. phila- 

 delphicum. In moist thickets near mountain streams; throughout our range. 



6. FRITILLARIA L. 



Bulbs of numerous thick scales. Stems erect, leafy, simple. Perianth 

 mostly campanulate, deciduous, of 6 equal ovate or oblong distinct segments; 



