178 A SKETCH OF THE BOTANY OF THE BASIN OF THE GREAT SALT LAKE OF UTAH. 
of which is an oval densely tomentose brownish tuft; claw yellow. Stamens short; cap- 
sule linear-oblong, 3—sided; 3 short and reflexed stigmas. Great Salt Lake Valley. 
Mrs. Carrington. This description is made upon the beautiful specimens collected by 
this lady. I doubt not that my plant is the same as that mentioned by Professor Torrey 
in Stansbury’s report and the same as Mr. Nuttall’s plant, who, for want of a good spe- 
cimen, mistook the colour of the corolla. The root is called by the natives sego, and is 
much esteemed by them as food. 
Eryturonium grandiflorum. Pursh. fl. 1, p. 231. (Dog’s Tooth.) Leaves oblong-lan- 
ceolate, obtuse; divisions of the calyx ovate-lanceolate-acuminate, reflexed from the very 
base; stigma 3-cleft, the seements recurved; flowers yellow, white at the base. Valley 
of the Salt Lake. Maj. Stansbury. 
Yucca. . . . (Bear-Grass.) Specimens with leaves only, 6—8 inches long, narrow, 
carinate, with an elongated spine; margin entire, white, sparingly furnished with fine 
white threads, scarcely curled. Mrs. Carrington. 
Bropiea grandiflora. Smith. Linn. trans. Tritelleia grandiflora. Torr. Stansb. Rep. 
Var. Brachypoda. Torr. Whippl. Rep. p. 149. Umbel multiflore, pedicels much 
shorter than the flowers; sterile stamens broadly lanceolate, entire. May. Great Salt 
Lake Valley. Major Stansbury and Mrs. Carrington. 
B. . . . . parviflora. .Torr. Whippl. Rep. p. 125. . Umbel about an inch and a 
half in diameter; pedicels unequal, many of them scarcely half the length of the pale pur- 
ple flower, the tube of which is somewhat inflated. Fertile stamens 3, inserted on the 
upper part of the tube, opposite the inner segments; anthers linear-oblong, acute at each 
end. Style filiform; stigma dilated, 3—lobed, the lobes fimbrillate-papillose. On Pre- 
vost’s Fork of Utah, and perhaps also in the Salt Lake Valley. Col. Fremont. 
MELANTHACE&. 
Antictra Nuttallii. Gray. Melanth. revised, in Ann. Lyc. New York, IV. p. 123. 
Amianthium Nuttallii. Gray. Amientanthus Nuttallii. Kunth. (The poison or death camass 
of the Indians.) Stem 18 inches high, terete, slightly suleate towards the base; inferior 
leaves 6—12 inches long, carinate, acute, the middle ones shorter, attenuate; the upper- 
most bractiform; racemes simple, or sometimes compound; pedicels filiform with scari- 
ous filiform bracts; flowers white, sepals a little longer than the stamens, broad oval or 
subovate, with the alternate ones narrower, obtuse, subcordate or round, abruptly ungui- 
culate. Valley of the Salt Lake. May. Maj. Stansbury. At the foot of the Oquirrh 
Mountains. Lieut. Beckwith. 
JUNCACEA. 
Juncus Bulticus. Willd. Gray’s Man., p. 180. (Bog Rush.) Scape rigid, 2—4 feet 
