12 



If A. ampiectens Torr. Pac. R. R. Rep. 4: 148 is really the same, 

 that name has precedence and should be adopted, but according 

 to description it is something different. 



No. 7781, collected April 26, in Kern canyon, Kern county, 

 about a mile above its mouth, on steep slopes with a northerly 

 exposure. These plants were much larger than those of 7740, 

 being in moister and more sheltered places. The flowers, as in 

 the other number, are deep rose-purple and large, the segments 

 12 or 13 mm. in length. 



Hesperocordum lacteum Lindl. Bot. Reg. 19: pi. r6j^. 



Allium lacteum Benth. PI. Hartw. 339. 1857. 



Brodiaea lactea S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 14: 238. 1879. 



No. 791 1, collected May 31, on hills about a mile west of 

 Middle Creek station near Redding, Shasta county, growing in 

 moist ground near a small stream It is common in the Sacra- 

 mento valley, usually in places which are wet during the winter 

 and early spring. It was "found by Mr. Douglas in California, 

 whence its roots were sent to the Horticultural Society in 1833." 



HooKERA CALiFORNiCA (Lindl.) Greene, Bull. Cal. Acad. 3: 

 136. 1886. 



Brodiaea Californica Lindl. Trans. Hort. Soc. 4: 84. 



Brodiaea grajidiflo7'a var. (?) major S. Wats. Bot. Cal. 2: 

 153. 1880. 



No. 7844, collected on dry gravelly hills in the western 

 part of Redding, Shasta county. May 25, the plants averaging 

 about two feet in height. The flower of this species is poorly 

 described by recent authors. It is narrow, almost tubular, and 

 certainly not "broadly funnel-form," as implied by Watson; 4 cm. 

 long, the tube i cm. long, 5 mm. broad, slightly or not at all 

 enlarged; the violet-purple segments 3 cm. long, oblong or ob- 

 long spatulate, about 7 mm. wide, three of them rounded at 

 the apex, the other three acute, all marked with a prominent 

 dark midvein. The stamens and staminodia extend about 2 cm. 



