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somewhat purplish-tingctl, cuspidate or acuminate. The wide leaf-bhides 

 of the sterile shoots, rudimentary fertile cuhn-leaves and strongly purplish 

 culm-bases and staminate scales are characteristic of this strongly marked 

 species. Rich woods: N. B. — N. C. — 111. — Sask. Plains. Ap — Je. 



139 After C. Emoryi insert: 



140a. Carex oxycarpa Holm. Loosely cespitose with stout hori- 

 zontal stolons; culms 4-9 dm. high, slender, stiff, smoothish, strongly 

 l^uri^lish-tinged at base; basal sheaths filamentose; leaf-blades 2-3 mm. 

 wide, long-tapering, flat with revolute margins; terminal staminate spike 

 3-4 cm. long, slender; lateral spikes 4-5, the upper 1-2 small, staminate, 

 the others sessile or short pedunoled, more or less separate, 2.5-4.5 cm. 

 long, 5 mm. wide, many-flowered; lowest bract about equaling the culm; 

 scales lanceolate, tinged with purplish-black, sharp-pointed, narrower 

 than the perigynia; perigynia narrcwiy to broadly obovate, plano-convex, 

 much flattened, 3 mm. long, 1.5-2 mm. wide, substipitate, finely several- 

 nerved on both sides, abruptly minutel-y beaked. The filamentose basal 

 sheaths distinguish this from other allied species in our range. Boggy 

 meadows: Wash. — Calif. — Ida. Subboreal. Je — Au. 



145 For T. larimiensis read Tradescantia laramiensis. 



159 For A. fibrosum Rydb., not Regel, substitute Allium Rydbergii Macbr. 



161 For A. Nivii read Allium Nevii. 



For A. bisceptum read Allium biceptrum. 

 164 For Ochrocodon Rydb. and 0. piuUcuin (Pursh) Rydb., substitute 

 AMBYLIRION Raf. and A. pudicum (Pursh) Raf., older names. 



166 Before Vagnera insert. 



1. ASPARAGUS L. Asparagus. 



Perennial herbs with matted rootstocks. Stem at first simple, at last 

 intricately branched. Leaves scale-like. Flowers axillary on jointed 

 pedicels. Petals and sepals each 3, similar. Stamens 6, inserted at the 

 base of the perianth; anthers introrse. Ovary 3-celled, 2-ovuled in each 

 cell. Fruit a berry. 



1. A. officinalis L. Stem 1-2 m. high, much branched, the ultimate 

 branches filiform; flowers solitary in the axils; corolla greenish, 6 mm. 

 long; berry red, 8 mm. broad. Waste places and banks: N. B. — Colo. — 

 Va.; escaped from cultivation; native of Europe. My-Je. 



167 The authority of Vagnera amplexicauUs should be (Nutt.) Greene. 



168 In key of Streptopiis, first Une, the last words to read "berry scarlet, some- 

 times white." 



168 The authority of Disporum trachycarpum is (S.\Yats.) Benth. &'H.ook. 



169 That of Clinlonia borealis is (Menzies) Kunth. 



171 The authority of Calochortus elegans should be Pursh. 



172 Before C. acuminatus insert: 



5a. Calochortus bruneaunis Nels. & Macb. Stem striate, minutely 

 scal)rous, 2-4 dm. high, more or less tortuose; leaves 4-6, the lower nearly 

 equaling the stem, the cauline ones scarious-margined, 4-10 cm. long; 

 flowers 1-3; sepals broadly lanceolate, 2-3 cm. long, gradually tajKn-ing; 

 petals broadly obovate-cuneate, white, streaked with green, with a small 

 V-shaped blotch and a yellow claw, glabrous, not pubescent above the 

 gland as is C. macrocarpus; capsule narrowly oblong. Valleys: Ore. — 

 Ida. — Nev. 



