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or less woolly above, slightly 3-cleft: fruit oblong-obovate, attenuate above 

 into a short somewhat villous beak, about % in. long, bright salmon- 

 color. Woods of Marin Co. April, May. 



2. D. Hookeri (Torr.), Britton. Eoughish-pubescent, 12 ft. high: 

 leaves ovate, deeply cordate, 1^3 in. long, the uppermost oblique: 

 perianth green, the segments spreading to the campanulate: berry obovate, 

 obtuse, scarlet. Wooded ravines in the Oakland Hills, etc. May, June. 



14. CLINTONIA, Raf. Apparently acaulescent, the very short stem 

 (from fibrous roots) bearing from beneath the ground, large oblong or 

 oblanceolate leaves, and a scape with a solitary, or many and umbellate 

 flowers. Perianth campanulate, of 6 distinct oblanceolate deciduous 

 segments. Stamens 6; filaments filiform; anthers oblong or linear, 

 versatile, attached on the inner side above the base. Ovary ovate-oblong; 

 style slender. Fruit a smooth ovoid few many-seeded berry. 



1. C. Andrewsiana, Torr. Nearly glabrous, only the inflorescence 

 notably pubescent: leaves J 1 ft. long, 24 in. wide, oblong or oblan- 

 ceolate, acute or abruptly acuminate; scapiform peduncle 1 2 ft. high, 

 often with a foliaceous bract: fl. deep rose-purple, many, in a terminal 

 umbel and one or more lateral umbellate fascicles; pedicels unequal, 

 1 in. long or less: perianth gibbous at base, 4 7 lines long: filaments 

 pubescent; anthers a line long: berry 45 lines long, the cells 810- 

 seeded. Deep shades of the Coast Range forests. 



15. DICHELOSTEMMA, Kunth. Leaves (about 2) fleshy, linear, 

 concave above; these and the long tortuous or twining scape from a 

 depressed fibrous-coated corm. Scape with a solitary umbel, this sub- 

 tended by 3 or more thin spathaceous bracts. Perianth-tube thin, more 

 or less inflated and angular or saccate; segments about equalling the 

 tube. Stamens 6, on the throat of the perianth; filaments disappearing 

 from the surface of the thin tube below, above the insertion developed 

 into petaloid appendages, those opposite the sepaline segments with or 

 without an anther, the others always antheriferous; anthers basifixed. 



* Flowers blue or violet. 



1. D. coiigestum (8m.), Kunth. Scape 35 ft. high, flexuous, but 

 apparently never twining: fl. blue-purple, in a dense capitate raceme (the 

 pedicels united into a central axis): perianth 68 lines long; tube 

 slightly constricted above, about as long as the rotate-spreading seg- 

 ments: fertile stamens 3; staminodia bifid, spreading and deeply colored 

 like the perianth. In fields and along borders of thickets. May, June. 



2. D. capitatum (Benth.), Wood. Scape % 1% ft. high, very tor- 

 tuous, not rarely twining: bracts of the umbel of a dark and lustrous 

 purple, much darker than the flowers; pedicels of the umbel very 



