titrcptopus. LILIACEiE. j^'j-'j- 



acute or acmniimto, 1 ^ to 2 inclios lony, purple-lilac, paler at base, with a greenisli 

 Hue dowu tlio middle, the lower third above the glaud covered with scattered glandu- 

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

 4 to G lines long: capsule attenuate upward, 1| to 2 inclies long: seeds llattened, 

 2^ lines long. — Hort. Trans, vii. 27G, t. 8; Liiidl. Bot. Jieg. t. 1152. 



At Soda Sprin;;;.s on the Little Shasta Uivcv (Grrmc) ; Camp Bidwell (Matllicus) ; and northward 

 to Wasliington Territoiy (Li/all) and Idaho, Spaldluij. 



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

 base, simple and undndlately 1 - G-lloweriHl, witii a single or rarely 2 or 3 narrow revo- 

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

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

 or often abrui»tly acute, an inch or two long, white above tinged with greenish yellow 

 or lilac and with a purplish spot or ])and 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. I{. Tiep. ii. 124 ; Ikker, 1. c. 30G, excl. syn. FritiUaria alba, 

 Nutt. Gen, i, 222. 6'. Iiitcas, Nutt. in Journ. Acad. Philad. vii. 53. G. LeicIUlinu, 

 Hook. f. Pot. Mag. t. 58G2. 



In tlie Sierra Nevada from Ehhctt's Tnss (at 13,000 feet altitude, Brewer) in Siiasta IJiver and 

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

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

 liigh mountai!! form is often dwarf and has the anthers more sagittate. 



C. Gn.N'NisoNr, Watson, common in the Rocky Mountains from Nebraska to New Mexico, 

 is a similar species, readily recognized hy 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. Fni it i lie/ pedicels erect : capsu/e varroichj oblouf/, obtuse, locuUcidalbj dehis- 

 cent at the summit : seed fiat and horizontal in, one rote in each cell, with 

 close irhite testa. 



21. C. Catalillce, AVatson. Stem 2 feet high, branching, from a small oblong- 

 ovate conn : 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. 2G8. 



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

 fruit only. 



22. STREPTOPUS, Michx. Twi.stf.d-Stai.k. 



Perianth narrowdy campanulate, of G 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 sctaceously apiculate, attached on the inner side near the base, 

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

 filiform, deciduous ; stigma 3-cleft or Sdobed. 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 trixnsverse veinlets ; flowers solitary on slender extra-axillary simple or 

 once-forked peduncles, the second flower and ])edicel 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 liigh : leaves ovate- to oblong-lanceolate. 



