NEW SPECIES OF CALIFORNIAN PLANTS. 
ALICE EASTWOOD. 
(WITH TWO FIGURES) 
’ Zygadenus exaltatus, n. sp.—Bulb large, pear-shaped, covered 
with brownish, membranous coats, about 1o°™ long, and half as 
wide: radical leaves forming a conspicuous bunch sheathing 
the base of stem, 6°" or more long, 2°™ wide, veins prominent, 
midrib conspicuous on lower part of leaf, less so above, glabrous 
except for the short, rather thick cilia on the margin: stem tall 
and stout, hollow, 7-8 high, 1°™ in diameter at base, leafy to 
the inflorescence: upper leaves merging into the bracts, lower cau- 
line with broad clasping base, 3-44" long and as broad as the 
radical leaves: inflorescence paniculate, 2-3°" long, the upwardly 
spreading branches varying in length at different stages of devel- 
opment, the lower branches generally bearing only staminate flowers, 
the perfect flowers principally borne on the main stem above the 
branches; staminate racemes with peduncles shorter than the bracts; 
bracts attenuate; bractlets white, membranous, longer or shorter than 
the slender pedicels, ovate-attenuate: perianth 17™™ in diameter, 
outer divisions sessile, elliptical, obtuse, the gland 2™™ from the base 
with parallel veins below forming a margined claw, veins on the 
upper part proceeding from the teeth of the gland, branching; 
inner divisions of the perianth with claw 2™™ long, 1™™ wide, the 
gland oblong, obtuse, veins asin the outer division; filaments broaden- 
ing towards the base, 5™™ long, attached to base of perianth, anthers 
oblong, becoming explanate in age: fruit becoming 2°™ long, includ- 
ing the rostrate styles, tapering a little more at base than at summit. 
Type collected by F. E. Blaisdell at Prindle’s ranch, above Mokelumne 
Hill, Calaveras County, California, at an altitude of 425™, in April 1900 
The other specimens in the Herbarium of the California Academy of Sciences 
are Amador, California, May 1886, M. K. Curran ae with root); Soda 
Creek, Tulare County, C. A. Purpus, June 1896, no. 1549; Hindeman’s Trai] 
gis Coyote Pass, Tulare County, California, July 19, 1903, collected by myself. 
I also saw it on the trail on the way to Little Kern. In habit of growth and 
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