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Veratrum spECiosum Rydb. Bull. Torr. Club, 21: 530. 190a 

 In 1899 the writer came to the conclusion that Flodman's 

 Montana specimen, since taken up by Dr. Rydberg as the type 

 of this species, was undescribed; but he did not associate with 

 it the other specimens enumerated by Rydberg, and as noted 

 above, definitely placed Brown's Mt. Shasta plant under Calt- 

 fornicum. Perhaps some of the other specimens cited really do 

 belong to V. speciosum^ but those from California certainly do 

 not. 



Veratrum Jonesii 



Probably tall, the specimen very imperfect, showing only 

 the upper flowering part of the stem 4 dm. in length: branches 

 of the panicle many but not crowded, the lowest one i dm., the 

 uppermost about 6 cm. long, the prolongation of the main stem 

 extending about i dm. above the branches, all covered with soft 

 woolly hairs: pedicels slender, maximum length about 8 mm.: 

 outer perianth segments obovate-spatulate, 5 mm. long, 3 mm; 

 wide across the rounded top, the inner a little narrower, stand- 

 ing well apart from each other at the base, prominently veined 

 and somewhat pubescent, especially on the claw, a narrow dark 

 line extending along either edge of the claw, but not confluent 

 at base: stamens about 4 mm. long: immature capsules over 

 2 cm. long, 1 cm. across, tipped by the rather widely spreading 

 awn-pointed stigma lobes of 2 mm. 



The type is no 6584, collected by Marcus E. Jones on the 

 Middle Fork of the Weiser river, Washington county, Idaho, 

 August 3, 1899, altitude 4500 feet, the original label bearing 

 the name '^''Veratrum Caltfornicumy Imperfect as is the speci- 

 men, it is very different from Californicum in its floral charac- 

 ters, and is apparently a larger plant. 



Veratrum caudatum Heller, Bull. Torr. Club, 36: 588. 1899. 



Outside of the type collection distributed by the writer, 



this interesting species has not been reported. In his Flora of 



Northwest America, 663, Mr. Howell states that it does not dif- 



