2(^Q LILIACE.K. Chkmxjulitni. 



nerved: seeds li to 2 lines lung. — Eiiuiii. iv. GS2 ; 'Purr. Mt;x. ]5ouik1. t. GO. 

 Sci/la, DC; Ked. Lil. t. 421. Authericum, Ker, But. ]{eg. t. oG4. Phalanyium, 

 Don in Sweet, Brit. Fl. Gard. 2 ser. t. 381. Ornitluxjalnm divaricatuvi, Lindl. 

 Bot. Eeg. xxviii. t. 28. 



In the valleys and foothills from the Ujiper Sacramento (McCiunhers, Ncwhcrrji) to the Stanis- 

 laus, Monterey ami Santa Barbara (Cassetas Pass, llvlhruck). Tiie biilli is one to four inches in 

 (lianieter, covered with a thick coat of coarse dark brown hbies. It is fiennently used as a sub- 

 stitute for soaji, and the bulbs of the other species probably possess the same deteigent qualities. 

 The Howers open only after midday, whence the specitic name. 



« * Periauth-sei/ineiits ohlong-oblanceolate, somewliat spreadlmj from above the 

 base : pedicels very short. 



2. C. parviflorum, Watsou. Bulb smaller (an inch thick), witli thin mem- 

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

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

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

 bracts: llowers 3 or 4 lines long, pinkish : cajjsule 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 sjjecies, show none of the fibrous character which is so conspicuous in C. jjonicridi- 

 anum. 



3. C. angUStifolium, Kellogg. Bidl) short-ovoid, mem1)ranously coated : stem 

 1^ to 3 I'eeL Ingh, liglit green, with sineading br.inches : leaves linear-lanceolate, 4 

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

 line or two long, about equalling the bracts : iiowers 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 /'/<;/'. If'uod, on gravelly hills near Yniia, 

 and is probably not rare on tlie ujiper Sacianiciito. 



13. ODONTOSTOMUM, Torr. 



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

 retlexed 6-parted limb; segments oblong, about eijualling the cylindric 12-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 unecpial ; anthers ovate-quadrate, basifi.xed, dehiscent at the 

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

 form, slightly 3-cleft at the apex, deciduous. Cajisule triangidar-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 conn, bearing an 

 open racemose panicle with small scarioiis In-acts ; leaves flat, liroadly linear ; pedi- 

 cels bracteolate in the midille, not jointed. A single species. — Pacif. ]i. L'ep. iv. 

 150, t. 24. 



]. O. Hai'twegi, Torr. 1. c. Conn deep-seated, an inch in dianieler: stem a 

 foot or two liigli, branching from near the base : leaves sheathing at base, 4 to U 

 inches long ami 3 to G liin's bntatl ; thii cauline short ami attenuate : bracts and 

 bractlets very narrow or lib form, about etjualling the slender i)edici;ls (1 to G lini'S 

 long or more) : flowers rather numerous, 4 to G lines long, the si^gments at length 

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

 high). — r>aker, Journ. Linn. Soc xi. 43G. 



In the footldlls of the Sierra Nevada, liutte tn .Amador Cmnties. Hardy collected ; llowciing 

 in April. 



