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Bracteal leaves 4-6, subulate-linear, connate at the base. Flowers apparently white. Sepals 
oblong, rather acute, and minutely sacculate at the lip, slightly united at the base, membranaceous 
on the margin, the midis broad and thick. Stamens 6, equal ; filaments inserted a little above 
the base of the sepals, not connected ; anthers oblong, 2-celled, inserted near the middle of the 
back. Ovary ovate, obtuse, 3-celled, with 10 anatropous orice in each cell, in a double series. 
Style filiform, erect, slightly clavate upward ; stigma minutely 3-cleft. This little plant seems 
to have been hitherto overlooked. It differs from Hesperoscordium in the sepals being distinct 
nearly to the base, and in the slender filaments, 
DIcHELOSTEMMA CoNGESTA, Kunth, Enum. 4, p. 470. Brodiwa congesta, Smith, in Linn. Trans. 
10, p. 3,¢.1; Hook, Fl. Bor.—Amer. 2, p. 186. Cocomungo, March 8, and hill-sides, Mar- 
tinez, California; April 20, (in fruit.) Our numerous specimens of this plant collected in 
various parts of California have the flowers all hexandrous, (as, indeed, they are shown in the 
early figure of Salisbury) ; nor do we find any hypogynous scales, except a slight callosity at 
the base of each aduate filament. 
Bropr#A GRANDIFLORA, Smith, 1. c.; Kunth, Enum. 4, p. 471. Var.? pracnyropa: umbella 
multiflora, pedicellis floribus multo brevioribus ; staminibus sterilibus lato-lanceolatis integris, 
Plains of the Sacramento, May 26, (in flower and fruit.) The same plant was collected also by 
Colonel Frémont on Utah Lake, and by Dr. Stillman on the Sacramento, 
Var. Macropopa: scapo foliis multo breviore; umbella pauci-(3-6-) flora, pedicellis flores 
multoties excedentibus ; staminibus sterilibus fato-linearibas emarginatis. Swamps, Santa 
Rosa creek, and Lactons California; May 1. Tuber the size of a marble. Scape only 2-3 
inches high, The longer pedicels 34 inches in length. Flowers bright paps about three- 
fourths of an inch long. 
STROPHOLIRION,* Nov. Gen. 
Perianthium corollaceum campanulato-infundibuliforme, 6-fidum ; tubo subventricoso 6-sac- 
culato ; segmentis equalibus ovatis obtusis uninerviis suberectis. Stainina fertilia 3, segmentis 
interioribus perianthii opposita ; filamenta tubo adnata, summo apice appendicibus 2 linearibus 
emarginatis, antheram linearem bilocularem utrinque fissam, adequantibus, aucta: sterilia 
linearia, uninervia, emarginata, glanduloso-ciliata fertilibus equilonga. Ovarium oblongum, 
basi attenuatum (haud stipitatum), triloculare: ovula in loculis 4, biseriata anatropa, adscen- 
dentia: stylus ovario longior, triangularis, superne subGistolesus’ stigma 3-lobum, lobis 
brevibus obtusis fimbriato-papillosis. Capsula ovata, sessilis, trilocularis, loculicida ; Ipsulis 
seepius abortu monospermis. Semina ovata, nigra, longitudinaliter striata. (Embryo igno- 
tus.) Herba Californica, glabra, foliis lato-linearibus breviusculis et scapo gracili nudo 2—4- 
pedali volubuli e cormo globoso exortis; umbella terminali multiflora densa, bracteis concavis 
spathaceis coloratis involucrata ; pedis cum flore articulatis ; floribus saturate roseis. 
SrropHoumrion Caiirornicum. (Tab. XXIIL.) In rocky places, Knight’s Ferry, Stanislaus 
River, May, (in flower and fruit) ; also at Sonora, Mokelumne Hill; Valley of the Sacramento, 
Colonel Frémont, Mr. Rich, and Dr. Stillman. It is No. 1992 of Hartweg’ 8 Californian collec- 
tion. A remarkable plant, of which we have had specimens for many years. It seems to be 
common in the Valley of the Sacramento. The tall stem, which is not larger than a crow-quill, 
and often more than 4 feet (Dr. Kellogg, of San Francisco, found it even 12 feet) in length, 
twines around other plants. In Dr. Bigelow’s specimens they were on Calliprora. Not un- 
frequently several stalks are twined together. The umbel is about 20-flowered, and much 
resembles that of some species of Allium, so that at first we took the plant for liell that genus. 
It most resembles Dichelostemma, but differs in having only three perfect stamens, and these’ 
furnished with appendages, while the abortive stamens are simple or undivided. ee are 
also other characters, besides the habit, in which it differs from that genus. 
* From erpepz, to turn or twist, (in allusion to the twining stalk,) and Acpoy, lily. 
