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AGAVE DESERTI Engelm. 

 A.GAVE PRINGLEI Engelm. 



AGaVE SHAWII Bngeimann. Very com- 

 pact, dark olive-green leaves, margined v/ith 

 stout spines. PecuHar to the coast regiDn of 

 Southern and Lower California. 



LILIACEAE. 



BKHRTA TENrn-'LORA Greene. Grassy 

 leaves about a foot long; flowers tubular, 

 borne in an umbel, the stamens much ex- 

 serted. brilliant scarlet in color, reminding one 

 somewhat of Brevoortia Ida-Maia. A Mexi- 

 can bulb nearly allied to Bessera ele:jans. 

 G<^iins iljUVM LiniiaeTi.s. 



Ar^LTT^M ACUMINATUM Hook. 

 ALUTUM ATTENT'IFOLIUM Kellogg. 

 ALLIUM CRISPUM Greene. 

 ALLIUM DICHLAMYDEUM Greene. 

 ALLIUM FIMBRIATUM S. Watson. 



ALLIUM HAT<:MAT0CFIT0X Watson. 

 The mesas and hil's around San Diego are 

 decided in springtime with the clusters of 

 brisrht purplish-tin'od flTwers of this wild 

 nnibn, which deserves a prettier name at the 

 hards of its friends. Tt does not prove qu'te 

 hardy in New Fngland. but will ^Ive enough 

 Ti'easure for the cost of growing in the house 

 pT*ion^ its mT-e sh-^wy cousins. 



ALLIUM LA^'UNOSUM S. Watson. 

 ALLIUM PARVUM Kellogg. 

 ALLII^M PEKTNST'LARE Lemmon. 

 ALLIUM SFRRATT'M S. Watson. 

 ALLIUM UNIFOLIUM Kellogg. 



Genus >n:iLL,A S. Watson. 



MUILLA CORONA TA Greene. 

 MUILLA MARITIMA S. Watson. 

 Genns CALOCHORTUS Pupsli. 



CALOCHORTUS APICULATUS Bak. 

 CALOCHORTUS ALBUS Dougl. 

 CALOCHORTUS AUREUS S. Watson. 



"T,ow. 4-fi' hifrh. with a single linear 

 pnrinate radicfi! leaf. 3-4' long; scape 

 ."hort. 1-2-flowered. the single pair ot 

 • ^racts linear, 2' long: sepals greenish 

 -y.. w th a dark-p. spr' rear *he base, ob- 

 lonfT— or ovatp-lancco'att: petals broadly 

 cuneale. 15" long, bright-y.. with a 

 ■ —nji v.'ell-defined circular densely hairy 

 gland near the base and a lunate p'lrplist 

 : ot •"'ove it: young capsule narrowly ob- 

 long, not winged. On sand-cliffs. Southern 



Jtah (Mi.^. E. P. Thompson) : June."— 

 r. Watson. Amer. Natl., vii. 7 (May, 1873). 



■ A. T r.^-xTOnTT^S RARNARDI Douarl. 

 CAT OCHORTUS BENTHAMT Baker. 

 ' ALO'T^IORTUS BONPLANDIANUS Sht 

 CALf^CHORTUS CAERULEUS S. Wat. 

 CALOCHORTUS CATALTNAE S. Wat. 

 CALOCHORTUS CITRINUS Baker. 

 • 'ALOCHORTUS CLAVATUS S. Watson 

 CALOCHORTUS DOUGLASIANUS Sht. 

 CALOCHORTUS ELEGANS Pursh. 

 < ALf^C.iOi T'S FLAVUS Schult. 

 CALOCHORTUS FLEXUOSUS S. Wats. 

 "Branched and flexuous above; bracts 

 a'terrate ^-Vi' long. linear-lanceo- 

 late. cari!;ate. rather rigid; sepals oblong- 

 Inncpolnte, greenish with a deep-p. and 

 '■nnge or p. gland above, the glandular 



'ireate, 12-iy long, purplish, with a 

 reen-p. claw and an Ill-defined circular 

 orfinge or p. gland above, the glandular 

 Mairs extending laterally to the margin; 



capsule triangular, narrowly oblong. 

 Southern Utah and Northern Arizona 

 (Mrs. E. P. Thompson); April and May. 

 The bulbs, as of other species, are eaten 

 by the Indians."— S. Watson, Amer. Natl., 

 vii 7 (Mav. 1*".'^'>. 



CALOCHORTUS FUSCUS Schult. 

 CALOCHORTUS GREEXEI S. Watsen. 

 CALOCHORTUS GUNNISONI S. Watson 

 CALOCHORTUS KENNEDYI Porter. 

 CALOCHORTUS LEICHTLINII Hook, J. 

 CALOCHORTUS LILACINUS Kellogg. 

 CALOCHORTUS LONGEBARBATUS 

 CALOCHORTUS LUTEUS Dougl. 

 CALOCHORTUS LYONI S. ^^-atson. 



"Near C. nitidus; stems branchmg and 

 somewhat flexuous, 1-2° high, bearing sev- 

 eral leaves and 2-4 or more solitary tl.: 

 sepals naked, acute; petals lilac or pur- 

 plish, with a darker p. sparingly brown- 

 villous spot at base surrounding the 

 short-oblong hairy gland, 12-20" long: 

 anthers oblong-elliptical , obtuse, 1 W 

 long: capsule narrowly elliptical, 



obtuse, 3-winged, nearly 1' long. Los 



Angeles County, California; collected on 

 hills near Los Angeles by W. S. Lyon and 

 Dr. Gray, and at Newhall by Dr. Gray, in 

 1SK5."— S. Watson, Proc. Am. Acad., xxl. 

 455 (June 2. 1886). 



CAT OCHORTUS MA'^ROCARPUS Dougl. 

 CALOCHORTUS MAWEANUS Lelchtl 

 CALOCHORTUS MONOPHTLLUS Lem. 

 CALOCHORTUS NITIDUS Dougl. 

 CAT ncpTDPTT^R NTTnFS S. Watson. 

 CALOCHORTUS NUTTALLII Torr-Gray, 

 CALOCHORTT^S OBISPOENSIS Lemn. 

 CALOCHORTL^S PALMERI S. Watson. 

 CAT,nrwoT?T^TTS PLUMMERAE Greene. 

 CALOCHORTUS PULCHELLUS Dougl. 

 CALOCHORTUS PUSILLUS Dougl. 

 r-ALOCHORTUS SPLENDENS Dougl. 

 CALOCHORTUS TOLMIEI Hook-Am. 

 O^LOCHORTTTR UMBELL.ATUS Wood. 

 CALOCHORTUS UNIFLORUS Hook-Arn 

 CALOCHORTUS VENUSTULUS Green*. 

 CALOCHORTUS VENUSTUS Dougl. 

 CALOCHORTUS VESTITUS Benth. 

 CALOCHORTUS WEEDII Wood. 

 Geuns CAMASSIA Lin€ll. 

 CAMASSIA ESCULENTA Lindl. 

 CAMASSIA FRASERI Torr. 

 CAMASSIA LEICHTLINII S. WataoB. 



Genns ERYTHRONIUM Llnnaeaa. 

 ERYTHRONIUM ALBIDUM Nutt. 

 ERYTHRONIUM AMERICANUM Kr-Ql 

 ERYTHRONIUM GIGANTEUM Lindl. 

 ERYTHRONIUM GRANDIPLORUM 

 ERYTHRONIUM HARTWEGI S. Wat. 

 ERYTHRONIUM NUTTALLIANUM 

 ERYTHRONIUM PROPULLANS A. Qry 

 ERYTHRONIUM PURPURASCENS 

 ERYTHRONIUM REVOLUTUM Bak«r 



Genua FRITILLrARiA Linnaeus. 

 FRITILLARIA ATROPURPUREA Nutt 

 FRITILLARIA BIFLORA Lindl. 

 FRITILLARIA LANCEOLATA Pursh 

 FRITILLARIA LILIACEA Lindl. 

 FRITILLARIA MULTIFLORA KeIlo»». 

 FRITILLARIA PARVIFLORA Torr. 

 FRITILLARIA PLURIFLORA Torr. 

 FRITILLARIA PUDICA Spreng. 

 FRITILLARIA RECURVA Benthi - 



