CUiylonia. J'( tU 1 | LACACK.K. 271 



limited, as here, to th«! rormatosc and caudicosc nn'inlHTs of Kuclatjionia, Gray 

 (Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. 27H). [Kt.-vised and reslri<t«d by H. L. Koni.v.sr.N.] 

 * Typical Clnytonia. (Simung Bkauty.) Coriiioso ; the i*lfii(ior 2-lcavc-.l HtoiiiH nixl Hfianuj 

 and few radiLjil leavm (rarely tootain'tms) from a fliep >,'!<)liular torm : leaven linear lo 

 oblong: petals light rose, usually with (leeper-eolore.l veins: few (»ee<!e<l eap«ule .%valved 

 from top; the valves ehartaeeous and more or li-ss eonduplieate in age, iMTsiKi.nt : rsK e 

 niiform iutloreseenco mainly braetless : Jlowers (produced in earlv spring) laitting for a 

 few days: pedieels recurved or drooping in fruit : seeds lenticular, rather uarrow-tdged, 

 very sliiuing. Species almost confluent in a series. 



C. Virginica, L. A span or two high from a d.cp and rather large globular comprcjwed 

 corm : leaves linear-lanceolato or linear, 2 to G inches long including the graduallv ta[>ering 

 base or margined petiole, 1 to 4 lines broad : raceme rather longpedunded, at length 

 rather many-Howered : petals often half inch long. —Spec. i. 204; Lam. 111. t. 144, f. I ; 

 Schk. Ilandl). t. 50; Michx. Fl. i. 160; Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 941 ; I^.dd. Bot. Cab. t.' 64.3; 

 Sweet, Brit. Fl. (Jard. ser. 2, t. 163 ; tiray, Gen. 1)1. i. t. 97 ; Meehan. Native Flowers, 8or. l] 

 i. 157, t. 40. C. ;/raii(li/loni (&, C. Siinsii), Sweet, Brit. Fl. Gard. t. 216. C. uruli/lora, 

 Sweet, llort. Brit. ed. 2, 220.— Woods, in light soil or leaf mould. Nova Scotia t<j Minne- 

 sota,' south to Upper Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas, west to the I{<K-ky Mountains in 

 Colorado. Flowers sometimes heterogone-dimorphous, as shown by E. L. Hankenson.'^ 



C. Caroliniana, Micux. Lower and fewer-flowered: leaves oblong, oblong-lanceolate, or 

 somewhat spatulate, with blade an inch or two long, abruptly contracted into a margined 

 petiole of same or scarcely half the length : flowers rather smaller. — Fl. i. 160; Ell. Sk. i. 

 307; ? Sweet, Brit. Fl. Gard. t. 208. C. ]'ir(fluic(t, va.T. $, Ait. Kew. i. 284. C. \'irf/,nira, 

 var. latifolia, Torr. Fl. N. & Midd. States, 259. C. s]>atula/>,l,(i, Salisb. Farad. Loud. t. 71. 

 C. upatltuhpfnUu, Pursh, Fl. i. 175. C. \'ir(/inic(i, var. spathulii Julia, DC. Prodr iii. 361 ; II<x)k. 

 Fl. Bor.-Am. i. 224. C. apatulata, Eaton, ^L^n. ed. 4, 263. V. si>al/iHliila, Bigel Fl. Bost. 

 ed. 2, 98.3 — Cool woods. Nova Scotia to Saskatchewan, Minnesota, the higher njountains of 

 N. Carolina, and, apparently, those of New Me.xico, Newberry* 



C. lanceolata, Piksh. a span high from a globose corm: leaves oblong or lanceolate, 

 lialf to iiich and a half long; radical (rare) long-petioled ; cauline sessile eitiier by broad or 

 narrowed base : inflorescence few-several flowered, sulwe.^sile between the leaves or short- 

 peduncled : petals emarginate or almost obcordate. — Fl. i. 175, t. 3 (a large form) ; llfMjk. 

 Fl. Bor.-Am. i. 224; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 199; Fenzl in Ledeb. Fl. Boss. ii. 147 (exd. pi. 

 Kotzet). & Siber. which should relate to C. orrtirti) ; (Jray, Am. Jour. Sci. ser. 2, xxxiii. 407. 

 C. Cnroliniamt, var. sessi/i folia, Torr. Pacif. U. Uep. iv. 70; Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif, i 76. 

 C. Caroliniana, var. lanoolata, Wats Bot. King Exji. 42. — Bocky Mountains of Brit. 

 Columbia, south to the Wasatch in Utali * and Sierra Nevada, California. ('. CaroUmaua, 

 Sweet, Brit. Fl. Gard. t. 208, seems rather to rejjresent the j)resent sj)ecies. 



C. Umbellata, Watson. An inch or two high from a subglobular or obversely napiforni 

 corm : radical leaves unknown ; cauline fleshy, obovate, half inch or more long anti con- 

 tracted into a petiole of ecpial or greater length : inflorescence subsessile and nmlndliform, 

 few -.several-flowered : petals ()l)ovate, entire : seeds com])aratively large. — Bot. King Exp. 

 43, t. 6, f. 4, 5 ; Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif, i. 77. — W. borders of Neva<Ia, near Virginia City, 

 Watson, Mann ; on Steins Mountain, E. Oregon, Howell. 



* * Caudicose; a rosulate duster of radical leaves surrounding scapiform flowering stems, 

 directly from the very thick crown or perpendicular caudex surmounting the thick and 

 fleshy tap-root : wing-margined petioles of the railical leaves scarious-dilated ami mostly 

 as if sheathing at base : no sarmentose shoots or off.sets : inflorescence nicemiform or sul>- 

 cymo.<te, with or without 8f)me small scarious bracts: jictals white or pale rose-<-olor. 3 to 5 

 lines long, apparently not ephemeral. 



1 Northwest to the Sa.okatchewnn. Dnimmond,tide Macoun. 



2 A form with doul)Ie (lower! has been noted bv Prof. L. F. Ward. 



« Add cyn. C. Inli/olla, Sheldon. Ibdl. Geo!. & Nat. Hist. Siirv. Minn ix. l.-i. 



* .\lsn at Manros, Colorado, Miff Knstiooofl, and eastwanl a.s far a.s W. Newfoundland, Wnr/h-n nt. 



* Also Wyoming, Xelson. 



