342 BOTANY. 



Tall, 2-3° high, leafy ; leaves ovate- or narrow-lanceolate, 5-8' long, scabrous 

 on the margin, the lower sheathing and very obtuse, the others long-acumi- 

 nate ; flowers greenish-brown, sohtary, axillary, nodding, the lip, sepals and 

 petals all acuminate. — Washington Territory and Idaho to California, New 

 Mexico and "Western Texas, (Wright;) near Carson City, Nevada, (10 Ander- 

 son.) Shore of Soda Lake in Carson Desert ; 4,000 feet altitude ; Au- 

 gust. (1,158.) 



CoEALLOEHizA MULTIFLORA, Nutt. Northern States and Canada, and 

 on the Western Coast from Washington Territory to California. Found in 

 the Wahsatch above Parley's Park, rare ; 7,000 feet altitude ; July. Sepals 

 and petals strongly veined ; middle lobe of the purplish lip broad and rounded, 

 twice longer than the subacute lateral ones. (1,159.) 



IRIDACE^. 



Iris Tolmieana, Herb. Bot. Beechey, 1. •396. Stem tall, 1-2° high, 

 slender, solid, terete, naked or with a single leaf near the. base, simple, 2-4- 

 flowered ; leaves narrow, 3" wide, erect, acute, purple at base, shorter than 

 the stem or about equaling it ; spathe 2-valved, acute, 2' long ; flowers on 

 slender peduncles, J-2' long, pale-blue, beardless and crestless ; tube short 

 (3-4") above a very short (1") solid base ; sepals 2V long, exceeding the (2') 

 petals ; stigmas 2-lobed, somewhat dentate at apex, shorter than the petals ; 

 capsule oblong, Ij' long, V wide, hexagonal. — On the Willamette, Oregon, 

 (Tolmie ;) Northern California, (? Newberry;) also Ruby Valley, Nevada, 

 (Beckwith,) referred to /. longipetala. Rather frequent in the high valleys 

 from the Pah-Ute to the East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada ; 6,000 feet alti- 

 tude; June-August. (1,160.) 



SiSYEiNCHiDM Beemudiana, L. Varying from Var. anceps to mucrona- 

 tum, the two forms sometimes collected together ; stems 4-15' high ; perianth 

 3-6'' long. Throughout the United States and north to the Arctic Circle. 

 Collected by Anderson near Carson City, and not rare, especially in high valleys, 

 from the Shoshone and Toyabe Mountains eastward to the Wahsatch and 

 Uintas; 4,500-8,000 feet altitude ; May-August. (1,161.) 



SiSYEiNCHiuM GEANDiFLOEUM, Dougl. Steixi 8-18' high, strict, com- 

 pressed, longer than the erect sheathing leaves ; spathe 1-3-flowered, about 

 equaling the often nodding peduncles ; perianth large, 6-10" long, bright- 

 purple, broadly campanulate ; filaments very long, subulate, connate only at 



