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LEUCOCRINUM l ZNIOXTANUM, "KTutt. Leaves 6'-8' long, l"-3" wide, 

 flat or somewhat folded toward the base, thick, finely striate-veined, 

 decumbent-, outer bracts broad, acute or obtuse, the inner narrower and 

 elongated; flowers 4-8, much shorter than the leaves ; peduncles J'-lj' 

 long, all radical, one-flowered; tube persistent, l'-2' long, filiform, seg- 

 ments of the limb 6"-12" long, oblong-lanceolate, acute; anthers linear, 

 about "2" long; style equaling the filaments; capsule 3"-4"m diameter. 

 Abundant on the plains east of the mountains. A charming little plant 

 with delicate, snow-white, fragrant flowers which appear in early 

 spring. Hall & Harbour, 548. Colorado Springs, Porter. Canon City, 

 Brandegee. Plains around Denver, Coulter. Watson in King's Rep., 

 vol. 5, pi. 36. 



ALLIUM CERXUTTM, Roth. Near Denver, Dr. Smith. Colorado Springs 

 and South Park, Porter. Canon City, Brandegee. Hall & Harbour, 547 ; 

 Meehan; Canby. Common on the plains near Fairplay, Coulter. 



ALLIUM RETICULATUM, Fraser. Watson in Rev. King's Rep., vol. 

 5, p. 486. Coats densely fibrous; pcape 6'-15' high, sub terete; leaves 

 very narrowly linear, elongated; umbel few-many-flowered, spread- 

 ing; stamens and style shorter than the usually acute (3"-4" long) 

 sepals; capsule crested, crest mostly short ; very variable. 



Var. , (Watson.) Low, 6'-8' high; sepals 3" long, white or slightly 

 pinkish, acuminate. Hall & Harbour, 545. Wet Mountain Valley, Bran- 

 degee. Monument Park, Coulter. 



Var. , (Watson.) Taller, 10'-15' high, slender; bulb less densely 

 fibrous; sepals white or pink, 3 7/ 4" long, acuminate and strongly cari- 

 uate, sometimes but little exceeding the stamens. Hall & Harbour, 546. 



Var. Y-) (Watson.) Like the last, but the pedicels rather more slender; 

 sepals usually more recurved and the whole lower stem with the bulb 

 thickly fibrous-coated. Wet Mountain Valley, Brandegee. Weston's 

 Pass, Coulter. 



YUCCA A^GrUSTiFOLiA, Pursh. Engelm. Rev. in King's Rep., vol. 5, 

 p. 496. Stems none or short; leaves narrowly linear, scarcely nar- 

 rowed above the broad base, rigid, spiny-pointed, nearly flat above, 

 convex below, with very slender marginal fibres, 1J-2J long; flowers 

 spiked; petals broad-ovate, IJ'-lf long; stigmas half as long as the 

 ovary, sessile, erect; capsule cylindric-ovate, thick, obtuse, short-pointed, 

 dry, erect, septicidally 3-valved from the apex, the valves at last again 

 divided at tip; seeds very thin, smooth, large, 5"-l" in diameter, with a 

 wide margin; albumen not ruminated. Plains of the Platte, Coulter; 

 Porter. Along the base of the foot-hills, and called by the Mexicans 

 "Soap Weed." 



JUNCACE.E. 



LUZULA SPADICEA, DC., var. PARVIFLORA, Ledeb. (L. parviflora, 

 Desv., var. melanocarpa, Gr. in Manual, p. 536.) Hall & Harbour. 555. 

 Mount Lincoln, at 12,000 feet altitude, and Clear Creek Canon, Coulter. 



1 LEUCOCRINUM, Xutt. Perianth corolline, salver-shaped, marcesceut ; tube very 

 slender, elongated ; limb 6-parted, regular. Stamens 6, nearly equal ; filaments adnate 

 to the tube nearly the whole length, filiform; anthers erect," becoming curved, linear, 

 2-celled, attached by the emarginate base, introrse, with a lateral dehiseence. Ovary 

 globose-ovate, 3-celled ; ovules about 12 in each cell, in 2 rows, horizontal or subpendul* >us, 

 on short foot-stalks. Style filiform, undivided ; stigma dilated into a somewhat tri- 

 angular cup. Capsule .subglobose, obtusely triangular, membranous, loculicidally de- 

 hiscent. Seeds 5-6 in each cell, in 2 rows, subglobose. A perennial acaulescent herb, 

 with a short, thick subterranean root-stock and fleshy spreading elongated rootlets ; 

 leaves thick, linear, surrounded at base by membranous bracts ; flowers white, pe- 

 duncled. 



