90 (146). ae? | BOTANY. 
ERYTHRONIUM GRANDIFLORUM, var, MULTIFLORUM: foliis immaculatis; floribus 1-6 racemosis ; 
sepalis lanceolatis acuminatis a basi fere reflexis ; stigmate clavato-capitato. Hill-sides, Downie- 
ville, California; May 21. Some of the scapes, which had apparently been stung by an insect, 
were 10-15 Bowered. Sepals bright lilac, yellow at the base on the inside. 
FRITILLARIA. KAMTScHATCENSIS, Fisch. in Book. Fl. Bor.—-Am, 2, p, 181, ¢. 193, A. F. biflora, 
Lindl. Bot. Reg. fol. 1663; Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. p. 397. Tagone ot Santa Rosa Creek, 
California ; May, fin. tralt.) The specimens are mostly single-flowered ; stem about 14 inches 
high, mostly naked above. Lowest leaves verticillate in threes, the others few and scattered. 
Capsule subglobose, obtusely 6-angled. A variety? from Biades. Sonoma, has the stem 2- 
flowered, and the (immature) capsule acutely pane 
Frimm.aria mutica, Lind. 1. c.; Hook. & Arn.1.c. San Francisco, April 30, (in flower ;) 
mountains near Oakland, California, April 4, (also in flower ;) hill-sides, Martinez, April 23, 
(in fruit, but immature.) The capsule of this species is strongly 6-winged, as in F. lanceolata, 
Pursh, from this species is hardly distinct. 
FRITILLARIA LILIAcEA, Lindl. 1. c.; Hook. & Arn. l. c. ae near Nevada; May 21, 
(flower.) 
F'RITILLARIA PARVIFLORA (sp. nov.) : foliis anguste janceolato-linearibus, infimis Wee ciintic, 
superioribus sparsis; floribus sparsis longe racemosis nutantibus ; beasiae pedicellos recurvos 
multo longioribus ; perianthio basi subangusto; stylo usque ad medium fere trifido ; capsula 
hexaptera. Hill-sides near Murphy’ 8, Seiieinis - May 16, (in flower.) This species is near 
. F. lanceolata, but it has more numerous (5-20) and much piatiey flowers, (scarcely three-fourths 
of aninch long.) Sepals with an obscure nectariferous groove, greenish-purple, with darker 
striz, but not spotted. 
CycLoBoTHRA ALBA, Benth. in Hort. Trans. (n. ser.) 1, p, 413, t. 14, 7. 3; Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 
t. 1661; Hook, & pan Bot. Beech. p. 399. Grass Valley, May 19, (in fl. & fr.;) hill-sides and 
parines, Sonoma; May. 
CYCLOBOTHRA PULCHELLA, Benth. 1. ¢. t. 14, f. 1; Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1662; Hook. & Arn. 1. CG 
Hill-sides, Napa Valley ; April 27. 
CLOBOTHRA ELEGANS, Lindl. 1. c.; Kunth, Enum. 4, p. 229. -Calochortus elegans, Pursh, Fl. 
1, p. 240; Dougl. in Hort. Trans. 1, Dp. 278, t.9 ote Vas Hills near | Punta de los Reys; ‘April 
‘17. The Calochortus Tolmexi, Hook. & Arn. 1. c. (ina note) is perhaps not distinct from this 
species. The inflorescence appears racemose from the unequal forking of the stems, each divi- 
sion bearing from two to four flowers. It seems to be the plant described by Pursh, who remarks 
that the petals are ‘‘ covered with long down.’’ There are other forms of this species in Dr, 
Bigelow’s collection: one from the mountains of Oakland, (April 4,) in which the petals are 
sparsely bearded not half way from the base; and another (a dwarf state) from the Sierra 
Nevada (May 11) with the petals glabrous except an adnate fanged scale at the base. - 
CaLocHORTUS VENUSTUS, Benth, l. ce. t. 15, f. 3; Hook. & Arn. 1. c.; Lindl, in Bot. Reg. t. 1669. 
Hill-sides, Knight’s Ferry, Stanislaus River, California ; May 7, (fl 
_ Caxocnortus LuTeus, Dougl. Mss.; Lindl. in Bot, Reg. t 1567? In the same place as the pre- 
ceding. This seems to be intermediate between C. luteus and C. uniflorus, With the former it 
agrees in its usually 3-flowered stem, and with the latter in its petals. It may perhaps bea 
variety of C. elegans. 
Catocnortus nitipus, Dougl. in Hort. Trans. 7, p. 277, t. 9, f. 4.2 Cyclobothra nitida, Kunth, 
Enum. 4, p. 230. Grass Valley, May 19; and hill-sides, Sonora, California, May 9. Auavart 
plant, scarcely a span high. Stem 2-4- Secoeenhs Pod deooning:, ovate, not winged. Petals 
orange-yellow, copiously bearded. 
Litrom Canapense, Linn., var. PUBERULUM: caule pedunculisque minute pabesoontibas foliis 
lato-lanceolatis margine nervieque puberulis ; floribus paucis (2-7) longe pedunculatis; sepalis a 
medio valde nlite intus purpureo-maculatis. Grows in all the region between Grass Valley and 
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