Chlorognliim. LILIACE^E, 159 



twice longer than tlio pedicels which are 3 to G lines long : periantli U to 2 inches 

 long, tiie segments 3 or 4 lines broad : capsnlo half an inch long, acute with tlie 

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

 ]>aker, .Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. 3G0. 



Colorado Desert, near Fort Yiitna (Srhof/) ; near Fort Mohave, in gravelly soil (Cooper) ; at 

 Jessup's Hapids, Kcicberry. Flowering in March and Apiil ; bulb eaten by the Indians. 



11. HASTINGSIA, Watson, 

 rerianth white or greenish, la.x and becoming scarious but persistent, of G distinct 

 oblong closely 3- (ai)parently 1-) nerved segments. Stamens 0, 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-flovvered 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. Lulb membranously coated or the outer coats 

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

 Hat, elongated (12 to 18 inches long), 2 to G lines broad : racemes elongated, usually 

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

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

 mature fruit unknown. — Schoenolirinii 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 Hiver, IVond, Oirrur), in swamps of the Ited Mountains, Humboldt Vonuiy {Jiolaudrr), 

 and IVeciuent on the Klamath River, J^. Unthiji. The genus eommemonites the eoutinued active 

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

 " 15otany of California." 



12. CHLOROGALUM, Kunth. Soap-plant. Amole. 



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

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

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

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

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

 style hliform, 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 sjireading 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 lirjulate, sjireading nu'delg from the base in the 

 open flower : pediceh nearly equalling the flowers. 

 1. C. pomeridianum, Kunth. I'ulb large, oblong-ovate, densely covered with 

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

 broadly linear, G to IS inches long, 4 to 10 lines broail, carinate and the margin 

 strongly undulate; the caulino one or two much shorter and atteiuiate : pedicels 

 slender, ascending, 2 to 9 lines long, mu(;h exce(>ding the bracts : perianth-segments 

 8 to 10 lines long, white, purplish-vein<-d : capsule 3 lines long, the valves pinnatdy 



