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Filaments filiform : crests ronspieuous. 



Segments broadly ovate-lanceolate. 11. A. CAMrANULATUM. 



Flowers small ; segments narrowly-lanceolate. 12. A. liluwELLliE. 



Leaf solitary, narrowly linear or filiform : capsule prominently 6- 

 crested : .scape low. 

 Scape very slender : leaf revolute-filiform: stigma 3-cleft : perianth 

 much e.xceeding the stamens. S. California. 

 Perianth rose-colored, 3 or 4 lines long : crests emarginate or 



erose. 

 Perianth deep rose-color, .") lines long : crests fimhriate. 

 Scapo stout, 1 to.'? inches high : leaf Hat : stigma entire : pcriantl 

 little e.xceeding the stamens. N. W. Nevada. 

 Perianth nearly white : crests entire. 

 Perianth dark red : crests acute, toothed. 

 Leaves 1 to several, linear, much e.xceeding the very short scape ; 

 capsule not crested : perianth-segments narrowly lanceolate, 

 not gibbous. 

 Scape an inch or two high : bracts 3, long-acuminate. 

 Scape shorter : bracts 2, abruptly acute. 

 Scape flattened, 2-edged, low, from a coated bulb : leaves 2, thick, 

 broad ami Hat, falcate. 

 Bracts 2 : stamens included : ovary crested. 



Perianth-segments narrowed and spreading above, serrulate : crests 



3, narrow, central. 19. A. FALCIFOHUM. 



Segments deej) rose-color, lanceolate, erect, not serrulate : crests 



3, thick, slightly lobed. 20. A. Bueweui. 



Segments nearly white, narrowly lanceolate, la.x, scarcely gibbous 



at base : crests (i, broad, obtuse. 21. A. ANCEPS. 



Scape taller ^6 inches high) : segments pale ro.se-color, ovate-ranceo- 



late, gil)bous : crests G, obscure. 22. A. Lem.MON'I. 



Bracts 3 to 5 : stamens somewhat exserted : ovary not crested. 



Segments 4 to 7 lines long, very narrowly acuminate. 23. A. pi.atycaule. 



§ 1. Scope, stout (1)1(1 tiill, tcri'tr, from a s)»(t// oiurte coated conn, and propa- 

 (jati/Kj by a lateral bulb-bear hi (j offshoot: leaves linear: capsule not 

 crested. 



1. A. unifolium, Kell. Bulb deep-seated, 6 to 8 lines long, with a white 

 somewhat chartaceous coat, marked by a close contorted reticulation, .separated from 

 the younger bulb above by a rooting rhizome | to 1 inch long : leaves 2 to 4, sheatli- 

 ing below the ground, flat or somewhat carinate, 1 to 4 linos broad, shorter than tlio 

 scape, which is a foot or two high : bracts 2, large, acuminate : pedicels 10 to 30, 

 usually l.V inches long : flowers bright rose-color fading to wiiite, the broadly oblong- 

 lanceolate acute or somewhat acuminate segments 5 to 7 lines long, a thinl longer 

 than the stamens and style. — Proc. Calif. Acad. ii. 1 1 2, tig. 3-5 ; Watson, Bot. 

 King E.xp. 48G, t. 3G, (ig. 9, 10; Baker, Bot. Mag. t. G320. A. falci/olium, Torr. 

 Pacif. R. Bep. iv. 148, in part. A. Boti(/lasii, Wood, Proc. Philad. Acad. 1SG8, 

 170, in part. 



In the Coast Ranges from Mendocino County to San Diego; Howering from March to May or 

 June. A unique species in the character of the iiulb. 



§ 2. S(^ape somewhat compressed and 2-ed(p'd, the oblong/ tunicatcil bulb crown- 

 ing a horizontal rhi-:ome: leaves several, linear: capsule scarcely or not 

 at all crested. 



2. A. validum, Watson. Scape very stout, 2-edged above, angled lielow, 1 to 

 3 feet high : bulb-coats white: leaves 2 to 8 lines broad, somewhat carinate, nearly 

 C(pialling the scapo : bracts 2 to 4, nniteil at base, broad, acute or shortly acuminate: 

 uml)el often soniowhat nddding ; pedicels numerou.s, 3 to G lines long : llowera rose- 

 color to nearly white, the lanceolate narrowly acuminate segments 3 or 4 lines long, 

 about equalling or shorter than the stamens and style : capsule subglobose, not 

 crested, 2h lines long.— P»ot. King E.\p. 350 ; Proc. Amcr. Acad. xiv. 22G. 



