218 UNITED STATES AND MEXICAN BOUNDARY. 
ALLIUM (NoTHoscorDIUM) STRIATUM, Jacq.; Bot. Mag. t. 1035; Ell. Sk. 1, p. 385. Prairies 
of western Texas and along the Rio Grande; common; flowering from March to September. 
Janos, Coralitas river, Sonora ; Capt. E. K. Smith. 
Sub-genus Curysoscorpium. Sepala basi vix connata, erecto-patentia, uninervia. Filamenta 
filiformia, basi utrinque unidentata. Ovarium sessile: ovula in loculis 4-5. Herba Californica 
scapigera, bulbosa? ; foliis linearibus ; floribus umbellatis aurantiacis. 
ALLIUM (Сн.) CROCEUM (n. sp.) Summit of the mountains east of San Diego, California ; 
Parry. Leaves all radical, about а foot long and 22 lines wide, glabrous. Scape as long as the 
leaves, slender, terete, naked. Umbel 9-12-flowered ; the pedicels 8-10 lines long, spreading, 
articulated close to the flower. Spathe of 4—5 lanceolate acuminate valves, which are nearly 
distinct to the base. Sepals 4—5 lines long, orange-yellow, oblong, rather obtuse, with a ciliolate 
callosity at the tip. Stamens one fourth shorter than the sepals; filaments filiform, with an 
oblong adnate tooth on each side at the base. Ovary oblong ; style about as long as the sepals, 
filiform ; stigma very small, 3-lobed. Capsule (immature) obovate ; seeds compressed. This 
species resembles a small Calliproa lutea. It differs from most of the genuine species of Allium 
in its yellow flowers, more numerous ovules, and articulated pedicels. 
.. CAMASSIA FRASERI, Torr. in Bot. Whippl. Rep. р. 147. Scilla esculenta, Ker. 8. Fraseri, 
Gray, Man, ed. 2, p. 469. Prairies of western Texas; Wright. 
Bropima (DICHELOSTEMMA) CAPITATA, Benth. Pl. Hartw. p. 339. Dichelostemma congestum, 
Torr. Bot. Whippl. Rep. non Kunth. Near Monterey, California, Parry; and Napa valley, in 
the same State ; Thurber. Until very recently, I had never seen the true B. congesta ; all the 
numerous specimens of what I have taken for it having 6 perfect stamens. As an early figure 
of Hookeria pulchella, Salisb., which several botanists have referred to B. congesta, represented 
the flowers as hexandrous, I supposed that the fertile stamens were commonly 6, I have, 
however, just examined a Brodiwa from Oregon, which exactly accords with Smith’s description 
of B. congesta. Nevertheless it is possible that the usually abortive stamens are sometimes 
antheriferous. | 
Var.? PAUCIFLORA: umbella 2-4-flora ; pedicellis valde inzequalibus partim spatha 3—4-valva 
subduplo longioribus. Near the Copper Mines, New Mexico; Bigelow. On the Gila river, 
March; Parry. San Francisco Spring, Sonora, Capt. E. K. Smith. This may prove a distinct 
species ; for we have seen no intermediate forms. 
BRODIÆA GRANDIFLORA, Smith, l. c.; Kunth. Enum. b p. 471; & var. MacRoPoDA, Torr. Bot. 
Whippl. Hep. p. 149. San Pasqual, California, May; Thurber. 
CarLIPROA LUTEA, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1530; Kunth, Enum. 4, p. 476. Dry grassy hill sides, 
near Monterey, California, May ; Parry. 
CHLOROGALUM POMERIDIANUM, Kunth, Enum. 4, p. 682. Anthericum pomeridianum, Gawl. Bot. 
Reg. t. 561. (Tas. LX.) Pinasquitos, California, Мау; Thurber. 
ANDROSTEPHIUM, Nov. Gen. 
Perianthium corollaceum, infundibuliforme, 6-fidum, regulare, persistens ; laciniis tubo sube- 
qualibus patulis uninerviis. Stamina 6, omnia fertilia; filamentis superne in tubum brevem 
cylindraceum connatis, inter et ultra antheras biloculares introrsas dorso medium affixas in 
coronam 6-foliolatum productis. Ovarium sessile, oblongum, 3-loculare ; loculis 12-14-ovulatis: 
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