160 LILIACE.E. Chlorofjalum. 



nerved: seeds 1 to 2 lines long. Enum. iv. 682; Torr. Mex. Bound, t. 60. 

 Scilla, DC.; Red. Lil. t. 421. AntJiericum, Ker, Bot. Reg. t. 564. Pkalangium, 

 Don in Sweet, Brit. Fl. Gard. 2 ser. t. 381. Ornithogalum divaricatum, Lindl 

 Bot. Reg. xxviii. t. 28. 



In the valleys and foothills from the Upper Sacramento (McCumbers, Newberry) to the Stanis- 

 laus, Monterey and Santa Barbara (Cassetas Pass, Rothrock). The bulb is one to four inches in 

 diameter, covered with a thick coat of coarse dark brown fibres. It is frequently used as a sub- 

 stitute for soap, and the bulbs of the other species probably possess the same detergent qualities. 

 The flowers open only after midday, whence the specific name. 



* * Perianth-segments oblong-oblanceolate, somewhat spreading from above the 



base : pedicels very short. 



2. C. parviflomm, Watson. Bulb smaller (an inch thick), with thin mem- 

 branous coats, the outer dark-colored : stem erect (2 feet high), with slender divari- 

 cate branches : leaves narrowly linear and grass-like (2 or 3 lines broad), with undu- 

 late margins : pedicels very short (rarely 1 or 2 lines long), mostly shorter than the 

 bracts : flowers 3 or 4 lines long, pinkish : capsule small (scarcely 2 lines in diame- 

 ter). Proc. Amer. Acad. xiv. 243. 



In Cajon Valley, near San Diego (D. Cleveland); flowering in May and June. The bulb-coats, 

 as in the next species, show none of the fibrous character which is so conspicuous in C. pomeridi- 

 anum. 



3. C. angustifolium, Kellogg. Bulb short-ovoid, membranously coated : stem 

 1 to 3 feet high, light green, with spreading branches : leaves linear-lanceolate, 4 

 to 8 inches long, 2 to 5 lines broad, flat or nearly so, becoming revolute : pedicels a 

 line or two long, about equalling the bracts : flowers white with yellowish green 

 lines, 5 or 6 lines long : ovary oblong-ovate, shortly stipitate. Proc. Calif. Acad. 

 ii. 105, fig. 30. 



Dr. Kellogg's description and figure were based upon cultivated specimens said to have been 

 originally from Shasta ; it has also been collected by Prof. Wood, on gravelly hills near Yuba, 

 and is probably not rare on the upper Sacramento. 



13. ODONTOSTOMUM, Torr.. 



Perianth white or yellowish, somewhat persistent, tubular with a spreading or 

 reflexed 6-parted limb ; segments oblong, about equalling the cylindric 1 2-nerved 

 tube, the outer 5-7-nerved, the inner 3-5-nerved. Stamens 6, on the throat, 

 alternating with as many very short linear staminodia ; filaments very short, nar- 

 rowly subulate, slightly unequal ; anthers ovate-quadrate, basifixed, dehiscent at the 

 summit. Ovary globose, sessile : ovules a pair in each cell, ascending : style fili- 

 form, slightly 3-cleft at the apex, deciduous. Capsule triangular-obovate, 3-lobed, 

 loculicidally dehiscent. Seeds solitary, obovate, with a close thin dark brown some- 

 what rugose testa. Stem leafy at base, from a fibrous-coated corrn, bearing an 

 open racemose panicle with small scarious bracts ; leaves flat, broadly linear ; pedi- 

 cels bracteolate in the middle, not jointed. A single species. Pacif. R. Rep. iv. 

 150, t. 24. 



1 . O. Hartwegi, Torr. 1. c. Corm deep-seated, an inch in diameter : stem a 

 foot or two high, branching from near the base : leaves sheathing at base, 4 to 9 

 inches long and 3 to 6 lines broad; the.cauline short and attenuate: bracts and 

 bractlets very narrow or filiform, about equalling the slender pedicels (1 to 6 lines 

 long or more) : flowers rather numerous, 4 to 6 lines long, the segments at length 

 strictly reflexed : style equalling the tube : capsule nearly 2 lines long (broader than 

 high). Baker, Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. 436. 



In the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, Butte to Amador Counties. Rarely collected ; flowering 

 in April. 



