146 BOTANY. 
ERYTHRONIUM GRANDIFLORUM, var. MULTIFLORUM: foliis immaculatis; floribus 1-6 racemosis ; 
sepalis lanceolatis acuminatis a basi fere reflexis ; stigmate clavato-capitato. Hill-sides, Downie- 
ville, California; May 21. Some of the scapes, which had apparently been stung by an insect, 
were 10-15 flowered. Sepals bright lilac, yellow at the base on the inside. 
FRITILLARIA K AMTSCHATCENSIS, Fisch. in Hook. Fl. Bor.—Am. 2, p. 181, t. 193, A. F. biflora, 
Lindl. Bot. Reg. fol. 1663; Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. p. 391. Laguna of Santa Rosa Creek, 
California; May, (in fruit.) The specimens are mostly single-flowered ; stem about 14 inches 
high, mostly naked above. Lowest leaves verticillate in threes, the others few and scattered. 
Capsule subglobose, obtusely 6-angled. A variety? from hill-sides, Sonoma, has the stem 2- 
flowered, and the (immature) capsule acutely 6-angled. 
FRITILLARIA mutica, Lind. l. c.; Hook. de Arn. l.c. San Francisco, April 30, (in flower ;) 
mountains near Oakland, California, April 4, (also in flower;) hill-sides, Martinez, April 23, 
(in fruit, but immature.) "The capsule of this species is strongly 6-winged, as in F. lanceolata, 
Pursh, from this species is hardly distinct. 
FRITILLARIA LILIACEA, Lindl. l. c.; Hook. & Arn. Le Hill-sides near Nevada; May 21, 
(flower.) 
RITILLARIA PARVIFLORA (sp. nov.): foliis anguste lanceolato-linearibus, infimis verticillatis, 
superioribus sparsis; floribus sparsis longe racemosis nutantibus ; bracteis pedicellos recurvos 
multo longioribus; perianthio basi subangusto; stylo usque ad medium fere trifido ; capsula 
hexaptera. Hill-sides near Murphy's, California; May 16, (in flower.) This species is near 
F. lanceolata, but it has more numerous (5-20) and much smaller flowers, (scarcely three-fourths 
of an inch long.) Sepals with an obscure nectariferous groove, greenish-purple, with darker 
stria, but not spotted. 
CYCLOBOTHRA ALBA, Benth. in Hort. Trans. (n. ser.) 1, p. 413, t. 14, f. 3; Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 
t. 1661; Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. p. 399. Grass Valley, May 19, (in fl. & fr.;) hill-sides and 
ravines, Sonoma ; May. 
CYCLOBOTHRA PULCHELLA, Benth. l. c. t. 14, f. 1; Lindl. in Bot. Heg. t. 1662; Hook. & Arn. l. c. 
Hill-sides, Napa Valley ; April 27. 
CYCLOBOTHRA ELEGANS, Lindl. l. e: Kunth, Enum. 4, p. 229. Calochortus elegans, Pursh, FT. 
1, p. 240; Dougl. in Hort. Trans. 1, p. 218, t. 9, f. 13. Hills near Punta de los Reys; April 
17. The Calochortus Tolmxi, Hook. & Arn. l. c. (in a note) is perhaps not distinct from this 
species. The inflorescence appears racemose from the unequal forking of the stems, each divi- 
sion bearing from two to four flowers. It seems to be the plant described by Pursh, who remarks 
that the petals are ‘‘ covered with long down.” There are other forms of this species in Dr. 
Bigelow's collection: one from the mountains of Oakland, (April 4,) in which the petals are 
sparsely bearded not half way from the base; and another (a dwarf state) from the Sierra 
Nevada (May 11) with the petals glabrous except an adnate fringed scale at the base. 
CALOCHORTUS VENUSTUS, Benth. l. e. t. 15, f. 3; Hook. de Arn. l. c.; Lindl, in Bot. Reg. t. 1669. 
Hill-sides, Knight's Ferry, Stanislaus River, California; May T, (f) 
CALOCHORTUS LUTEUS, Dougl. Mss.; Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1567? In the same place as the pre- 
ceding. This seems to be intermediate between C. luteus and C. uniflorus. With the former it 
agrees in its usually 3-flowered stem, and with the latter in its petals. It may perhaps be a 
variety of C. elegans. 
CALOCHORTUS NITIDUS, Dougl. in Hort. Trans. 7, p. 277, t. 9, f. .4.2  Cyclobothra nitida, Kunth, 
Enum. 4, p. 230. Grass Valley, May 19; and hill-sides, Sonora, California, May 9. A dwarf 
plant, scarcely a span high. Stem 2-4-flowered. Pod drooping, ovate, not winged. Petals 
orange-yellow, copiously bearded. 
LILIOM CANADENSE, Linn., var, PUBERULUM: caule pedunculisque minute pubescentibus ; foliis 
lato-lanceolatis margine nervisque puberulis; floribus paucis (2-7) longe pedunculatis; sepalis a 
medio valde revolutis intus purpureo-maculatis. Grows in all the region between Grass Valley and 
