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13 or 14 nitn. long, bright yellow, the segments oblong or ob- 

 long lanceolate, 3 mm. wide, the onter blunt, the inner acutish, 

 terminated by a short, slightly incurved mucro, a prolongation 

 of the dark midvein: filaments alternately long and short, the 

 appendages only i mm. long, slender and pointed; anthers blue. 



DiCHELOSTEMMA CAPiTATUM (Benth.) Wood, Proc. Phila. Acad. 

 1868: 173. 1869. 

 Brodiaea capitata Benth. PI. Hartw. 339. 1857. 



No. 7688, collected April 14, on stony hillsides at Rands- 

 burg, Kern county, in the Mojave desert. These plants have 

 fewer, smaller and paler flowers than the typical form from "syl- 

 vis prope Monterey," but so far no characters to warrant a sepa- 

 ration have been noted in the dried specimens. It seems to be 

 common on the desert hills, having also been observed near Mo- 

 jave. 



Diclielosteinma iiiultifloruni (Benth.) 



Brodiaea mjiltiflora Benth. PI. Hartw. 339, 1857. 

 Hookera miiltiflora Britten, Journ. Bot. 24: 

 The type of this was collected by Hartweg in 1847 "^^ valle 

 Sacramento," probably in the vicinity of Chico, Butte county. 

 Bentham's description is short and unsatisfactory, but the stam- 

 inodia are said to be "ovata, integerrima." Watson says "stam- 

 inodia entire, broad and obtuse, about equalling the anthers." 

 Greene says "staminodia obtuse, entire, little exceeding the ob- 

 long, deeply bifid anthers." 



No. 7862 was collected May 26, on dry wooded hills about 

 two miles west of Redding, Shasta county, at that time nearly 

 past flowering, and from living plants of this the following de- 

 scription is drawn: 



Flowers pale violet, in capitate clusters of 10 or more, the 

 middle pedicels longest, often 15 mm., the others ranging from 

 5 to 10 mm.: perianth 2 cm. long, half of which is tube, 5 or 6 

 mm. across the tumid base, then narrowed to 3 or 4 mm.; seg- 

 ments either ascending or somewhat rotate when fully expanded, 



