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CHLOROGALUM 
C. Howellii Watson. 1. c 135. Scape rather slender, 16-24 inches 
high, from an ovold bulb about an inch in diameter: leaves 6-8, 12-18 
-jnches long, 2-6 lines wide: raceme many-flowered, 12-18 inches lons: 
bracts filiform-subulate. 6-12 lineslong: pedicels slender. spreading, 6-18 
lines long, longer than the bracts: perianth dark blue or purple, the lance- 
olate segments 8-10 lines long, regular, opening about 2 P M. remaining 
open until sunset, then cloasing overthe ovary and not opening again, at 
length deciduous: capsule broadly triangular-ovate, very obtuse, 3 lines 
long, the cells 2-3-seeded seeds ob void, shining, a linelong, Qn a gravelly 
plain east of Girant’s Pass, southern Oregon. 
6 HASTINGSIA Watson Proc Am. Acad. xiv, 217. — 
Perennial herbs with scape-like sparingly branched stems from 
coated bulbs, rather numerous all radical flat narrow leaves and 
numerous small whitish flowers in somewhat panicled bracted 
racemes on jointed pedicels. Perianth lax, becoming somewhat 
scarious but persistent. of 6 distinct oblong closely 3-nerved seg- 
ments. Stamens 6 adnate to the base of the segments: anthers 
linear-oblong, versatile. Ovary ovoid, very shortly stipitate: the 
cells 2-ovuled. Style short, persistent. Seeds oblong, with black 
shining testa. 
H. alba Watson 1. c. 242. Buibs membranously coated, or the outér 
somephat tibion~: stem often stout, erect, 1-244 feet high: leaves 12-18 
inches long, 2-6 lines wide. attenuate ohove: raceme simple or sparingly 
branched, densely many-flowered: bracts narrowly acuminate, pedicels 
1-2 lines long. shorter than the bracts: segments of the perianth ahout 24 
lines long. cblong, obtuse, white or tinged with green cr pink, prominently 
3-nerved: stamens about equalling the perianth: capsule broadly ovoid, 3 
lines high. very shortly stipitate: seeds oblong, 2 lines long. On dry hill- 
sides, southern Uregon to California. 
H. bracteosa Watson |. c. xx; 377. Bulb narrowly oblong, membran- 
ously conted: stem 1-3 feet high, often stout: leaves 12-2. inches long, 1-4 
lines wide, acuminate above: 1acemes simple or sparingly branclied, 
loosely many-flowered:- bracts filiform-sululate from a broad base, 6-10 
lines long or more: pedicels ascending. about 2 lines !ong: segments of 
the perianth dull white, lanceolate, acuminate, 4-5 lines long. prominently 
nerved: stamens about half as long as the segments: mature fruit not 
seen. In marshes near Waldo southern Oregon. 
7 CHLOROGALUM Kunth Enum. iv, 683. 
Coarse herbs with fibrous or membranous coated bulbs, narrow 
radical leaves, scape-like stems paniculately branched above and 
small scarious-bracted flowers on jointed pedicels. Perianth white 
or pinkish, of 6 distinct oblong or narrowly ligulate more or less 
spreading segments with 3 close but distinct nerves down the 
middle, at length twisted over the ovary and persistent. Sta- 
mens 6, a little shorter than the segments, inserted on and adnate 
to their bases: anthers versatile. Ovary sessile or nearly so, with 
a pair of ascending ovules in each cell. Style filiform, slightly 
3-cleft at the apex, deciduous. Capsule thick-membranaceous, 
broadly turbinate, 3-lobed, loculicidally dehisvent. Seeds 1 or 2 
in each cell, obovate, with a close thin somewhat rugose blackish 
testa. 
