220 UNITED STATES AND MEXICAN BOUNDARY. 
SCHORNOLIRION, Nov. Gen. 
Perianthium corollaceum, 6-phyllum, persistens; sepala 3-5-nervia, patentia. Stamina 6, 
ime basi sepalorum inserta; filamenta subulata basi complanata ; antherse oblonge, utrinque 
bifide, introrsae. Ovarium liberum, ovali-globosum, subsessile, 3-loculare; ovula in loculis 2 
collateralia, horizontalia, anatropa ; stylus filiformis, rectus; stigma minutum, 3-lobum. Capsula 
globoso-obovata, 3-loba; loculis 1—2-spermis. Semina subglobosa nigra nitida.—Herbe pe- 
rennes; rhizomate bulboso-tuberosa; foliis subradicalibus angusto-linearibus subcanaliculatis; 
scapo gracili; floribus albis in racemis simplicibus vel laxe paniculatis; pedicellis juxta florem 
articulatis basi bracteatis. 
ScHGNOLIRION MICHAUXII: pedicellis bracteis 2—4-plo longioribus; sepalis ovatis, nervis sub- 
distantibus.—Phalangium croceum, Micha. Fl. 1, p. 196. Ornithogalum? croceum, ЇЇ. Sk. 
1, p. 397; Kunth, Enum. 4, р. 371. О. Texanum, Scheele in Linnea, p. 146. Moist places on 
the Colorado of Texas, March— April ; Wright. Also found on the Red River of Louisiana, by 
Dr. Hale, and in East Florida by Mr. Buckley and Dr. Chapman. Rhizoma oblong or some- 
times elongated, about as thick as the little finger, crowned with a scaly bud or bulb. Leaves 
1-13 foot long, narrowly linear, glabrous, somewhat channelled above, and rounded underneath. 
Scape 14-3 feet high, terete, slender, simple, or with a few branches above. Racemes 8-25-flow- 
ered, the pedicels 5-8-lines long, somewhat spreading, with short bracts at the base. Perianth, 
when expanded, 4-5 lines in diameter, spreading, white, the 3 exterior sepals greenish externally 
along the middle. Stamens a little shorter than the perianth ; filaments white. Capsule coriaceous, 
somewhat truncate, with 3 rounded lobes ; cells 1-2-seeded, one or two of them abortive. Seeds 
_ globose-obovate, black and shining. Embryo straight in the axis of fleshy albumen. The 
flowers of this species are yellowish when dry, a circumstance which doubtless gave rise to the 
specific name of Michaux, but which had best be superseded, as it may lead to error. 8. album, 
Durand, differs in its pedicels being much shorter than the subulate bracts ; in the oval sepals 
which are narrowed towards the base, and in the almost confluent nerves. The perianth is also 
of much more delicate texture than in S. Michauxii, and dries white. This genus was indicated 
in Durand’s account of a collection of California plants made by Mr. H. Pratten and published 
in the Journal of the Academy of Philadelphia (n. ser. vol. 2.) It is much more nearly related 
to Ornithogalum than to Phalangium. 
SMILACINA STELLATA, Desf. in Ann. Mus. 9, p. 51. Near the Copper Mines, New Mexico; 
Bigelow. Moist places near Monterey, California, April; Parry. The raceme is looser, and 
the pedicels considerably longer than in the eastern plants. 
SMILACINA RACEMOSA, Desf. 1. с. Mountains on the Mimbres, April—May ; Bigelow, Т hurber. 
California; Parry. The branches of the panicle are shorter and fewer-flowered, both in 
the California specimens and in those of New Mexico, than in the plant of the Eastern States. 
POLYGONATUM BIFLORUM, ЕЙ. Sk. 1, p. 393? Copper Mines, New Mexico, June; Bigelow. 
(No. 1917, Wright.) Whole plant quite smooth. Stem about a foot and a half high. Leaves 
narrowly oblong, glaucous underneath.  Peduncles 2-flowered. Filaments very slightly rough, 
inserted below the middle of the tube of the perianth. 
YUCCA ANGUSTIFOLIA, Pursh, Fl. 1, p. 227; Nutt. Gen. 1, p. 218. idet hills and plains, New 
Mexico, Western Texas and Chihuahua, May—August. (No. 910 and 911, Wright ; No. 850 
of Fendler's New Mexican collection.) 227 
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