CUorogalum. LILIACE^B. 159 



twice longer than the pedicels which are 3 to 6 lines long : perianth 1 to 2 inches 

 long, the segments 3 or 4 lines broad : capsule half an inch long, acute with the 

 base of the style : seeds thin, 2^ to 3 lines broad. Am. Journ. Sci. 2 ser. 1. c. 427 ; 

 Baker, Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. 360. 



Colorado Desert, near Fort Yuma (Schott) ; near Fort Mohave, in gravelly soil (Cooper) ; at 

 Jessup's Rapids, Newberry. Flowering in March and April ; bulb eaten by the. Indians. 



11. HASTINGSIA, Watson. 



Perianth white or greenish, lax and becoming scarious but persistent, of 6 distinct 

 oblong closely 3- (apparently 1-) nerved segments. Stamens 6, adnate to the base 

 of the segments ; anthers linear-oblong, versatile. Ovary ovate, very shortly stipi- 

 tate ; style short, persistent ; cells 2-ovuled. Stem naked or sparingly leafy, from 

 a coated bulb, bearing a densely many-flowered sparingly panicled raceme, with 

 small scarious bracts ; leaves flat, linear ; pedicels very short, stout, jointed at the 

 summit. A single species. Proc. Amer. Acad. xiv. 217. 



1. H. alba, Watson, 1. c. 242. Bulb membranously coated or the outer coats 

 somewhat fibrous : stem and branches erect, often stout, 2 feet high or more : leaves 

 flat, elongated (12 to 18 inches long), 2 to 6 lines broad : racemes elongated, usually 

 dense : pedicels (a line long or less) much shorter than the very narrowly acuminate 

 bracts : flowers white or somewhat tinged with green or pink, 2 or 3 lines long : 

 mature fruit unknown. Schcenolirion album, Durand, Journ. Acad. Philad. 2 ser. 

 iii. 103 ; Gray, Amer. Naturalist, x. 552. 



In the Sierra Nevada from Nevada and Plumas Counties and northward to Siskiyou (in meadows 

 on Shasta River, Wood, Greene), in swamps of the Red Mountains, Humboldt County (Bolander), 

 and frequent on the Klainath River, V. Rattan. The genus commemorates the continued active 

 interest and liberal generosity of Hon. S. Clinton Hastings, of San Francisco, in behalf of the 

 " Botany of California. " 



12. CHLQKOGALUM, Kunth. SOAP-PLANT. AMOLE. 



Perianth white or pinkish, persistent and at length twisted over the ovary, of 6 

 distinct oblong or narrowly ligulate segments, more or less spreading, with 3 close 

 but distinct greenish or purplish nerves down the middle. Stamens 6, somewhat 

 shorter than the segments, adnate to their base ; anthers versatile, linear-oblong. 

 Ovary sessile or very nearly so, subglobose : ovules a pair in each cell, ascending : 

 style filiform, slightly 3-cleft at the apex, deciduous. Capsule thick-membranous, 

 broadly turbinate, 3-lobed, loculicidally dehiscent. Seeds 1 or 2 in each cell, obovate, 

 with a close thin somewhat rugose blackish testa. Stem stout, scarcely leafy, from 

 a fibrous or membranously coated bulb, bearing a spreading sparingly branched 

 racemose panicle with small scarious bracts ; leaves linear, somewhat fleshy and 

 flaccid, the margins more or less undulate ; pedicels scattered, jointed at the sum- 

 mit. Only the following species. 



* Perianth-segments narrowly ligulate, spreading widely from the base in the 

 open flower : pedicels nearly equalling the flowers. 



1. C. pomeridianum, Kunth. Bulb large, oblong-ovate, densely covered with 

 coarse brown fibres : stem and spreading panicle 1 to 3 feet high, brownish : leaves 

 broadly linear, 6 to 18 inches long, 4 to 10 lines broad, carinate and the margin 

 strongly undulate ; the cauline one or two much shorter and attenuate : pedicels 

 slender, ascending, 2 to 9 lines long, much exceeding the bracts : perianth -segments 

 8 to 10 lines long, white, purplish-veined : capsule 3 lines long, the valves pinnately 



