f 

 Streptopiis. LILIACE^E. 177 



acute or acuminate, 1 1 to 2 inches long, purple-lilac, paler at base, with a greenish 

 Hue down the middle, the lower third above the gland covered with scattered glandu- 

 lar hairs ; gland oblong, densely hairy : anthers purple or yellow, lanceolate, acutish, 

 4 to 6 lines long: capsule attenuate upward, 1| to 2 inches long : seeds flattened, 

 2| lines long. Hort. Trans, vii. 276, t. 8 ; Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1152. 



At Soda Springs on the Little Shasta River (Greene) ; Camp Bidwell (Matthews) ; and northward 

 to Washington Territory (Lyall) and Idaho, Spalding. 



20. C. Nuttallii, Torr. & Gray. Erect, slender, usually a foot high, bulbiferous at 

 base, simple and umbellately 1 - 5-flowered, with a single or rarely 2 or 3 narrow re vo- 

 lute cauline leaves : sepals ovate-lanceolate with scarious margins, yellowish within, 

 with often a dark sometimes hairy spot near the base : petals cuneate-obovate, obtuse 

 or often abruptly acute, an inch or two long, white above tinged with greenish yellow 

 or lilac and with a purplish spot or band above the yellow base ; gland round or 

 oblong, densely hairy, surrounded by long scattered hairs : anthers obtuse, sagittate 

 at base, 3 or 4 lines long : capsule attenuate upward, 1 to 2| inches long : seeds as 

 in the last. Pacif. R. Rep. ii. 124 ; Baker, 1. c. 306, excl. syn. Fritillaria alba, 

 ]X"\itt. Gen. i. 222. C. luteus, Nutt. in Journ. Acad. Philad. vii. 53. (7. Leichtlinii, 

 Hook. f. Bot. Mag. t. 5862. 



In the Sierra Nevada from Ebbett's Pass (at 13,000 feet altitude, Brewer) to Shasta River and 

 eastward to the headwaters of the Missouri, the Black Hills of Dakota, S. Utah and New Mexico ; 

 the most widely distributed species of the genus. The color sometimes varies to deep lilac. The 

 high mountain form is often dwarf and has the anthers more sagittate. 



C. GUNXISONI, Watson, common in the Rocky Mountains from Nebraska to New Mexico, 

 is a similar species, readily recognized by its acuminate anthers, the light-lilac petals yellowish 

 green below the middle, banded and lined with purple, the lower part hairy and the transverse 

 gland nearly as broad as the claw. 



3. Fruiting pedicels erect: capsule narrowly oblong, obtuse, loculicidally dehis- 

 cent at the summit: seed flat and horizontal in one row in each cell, with 

 close white testa. 



21. C. Catalinae, Watson. Stem 2 feet high, branching, from a small oblong- 

 ovate corm : leaves and bracts very narrowly linear : ovary winged : capsule triangu- 

 lar, very obtuse, an inch or two long by 4 or 5 lines wide : seeds thin and very 

 numerous, 2 lines in diameter ; testa minutely pitted. Proc. Amer. Acad. 

 xiv. 268. 



On Santa Catalina Island, off Los Angeles. Collected by Mr. Paul Schumacher, June, 1878, in 

 fruit only. 



22. STREPTOPUS, Michx. TWISTED-STALK. 



Perianth narrowly campanulate, of 6 distinct lanceolate deciduous reticulately 

 nerved segments, with recurved tips. Stamens 6, on the base of the segments ; 

 filaments short and deltoid or subulate ; anthers sagittate, acute or acutely attenuate 

 above, or each cell setaceously apiculate, attached on the inner side near the base, 

 with nearly lateral dehiscence. Ovary sessile, ovate, 3-celled, many-ovuled : style 

 filiform, deciduous ; stigma 3-cleft or 3-lobed. Fruit a thin globose or ovate-oblong 

 reddish berry, the cells several seeded. Seeds oblong with close thin brownish 

 testa, longitudinally striate. Stems leafy, dichotomously branching, glaucous, from 

 slender creeping rootstalks ; leaves alternate, sessile or clasping, lanceolate, many- 

 nerved with transverse veinlets ; flowers solitary on slender extra-axillary simple or 

 once-forked peduncles, the second flower and pedicel often rudimentary. 



Two Asiatic species are known in addition to the following. 



1. S. amplexifolius, DC. Glabrous throughout and glaucous : rhizome short 

 with crowded rootlets : stem 2 or 3 feet high : leaves ovate- to oblong-lanceolate, 



