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the contracted base, erect, at length spreading. — Washington Territory to 

 Northern Cahfornia. Collected by Beckwith in the Stage Pass of the East 

 Humboldt Mountains, Nevada. 



LILIACE^. 



ZiGADENUS GLAucus, Nutt. From Northern New York, the Great Lakes 

 and Upper Canada to the Saskatchewan, Great Bear Lake and Behring Strait, 

 and southward in the mountains to Cahfornia, Colorado and New Mexico, 

 (Fendler.) In Ruby and Huntington Valleys and in the East Humboldt and 

 Uinta Mountains; 6-9,000 feet altitude; August. Only a slender form, 

 1-2° high, with a loose few-flowered somewhat panicled raceme, the leaves 

 narrow, not exceeding 3" wide ; sepals 3-4" in length, lJ-2" wide. (1,162.) 



ZiGADENTjs Feemontii, Torr. {Anticlea, Torr. Pac. R. R. Surv. 4. 149. 

 Z. Douglasii, Torr. Pac. R. R. Surv. 7. 20.) Collected by Fremont on the 

 Uinta River, Utah, and found from California to Washington Territory. 

 Scarcely distinguishable from the last, except by its more obscure gland occu- 

 pying the base of the petal and extending upward along the nerves, but not 

 so far as the well-defined 2-lobed summit of the gland in Z. glaucus. 



ZiGADENUS NuTTALLii, Gray. {Amianthium Nuttallii, Gray, Var. «. 

 Ann. N. Y. Lye. 4. 123.) Bulb tunicated ; stem 8-20' high, slender, with 

 several elongated narrowly linear bracteiform leaves, which are semi-amplex- 

 icaul or the lower slightly sheathing ; lower leaves 2-4" wide, folded-cari- 

 nate, usually shorter than the stem, rough on the margin ; raceme simple, 

 usually very sliort, 1-3' long, rarely 10'; flowers crowded, bracteate, on 

 slender elongated pedicels ; lower bracts usually foliaceous, the upper mem- 

 branous ; sepals l^-S" long, ovate-elliptical, very obtuse, abruptly narrowed 

 and shghtly glandular at base ; ovary-cells 12-14-ovuled ; capsule oblong- 

 ovate, 6" long ; seeds 2h" long, oblong. — Always growing in meadows or on 

 stream-banks, the raceme always simple. Bulb about i' in diameter or 

 larger ; coatings often marked by numerous white raphides. From Arkansas 

 and Texas to California and Oregon. Havallah and Battle Mountains and 

 Ruby Valley, Nevada, and in the Wahsatch ; 6,000 feet altitude; flowering 

 late in June and in July. (1,163.) 



ZiGADENUS PANICULATUS. (Helonios, Nutt. Amianthium Nuttallii, Gray, 

 Var. j8., /. c.) Stem rather stout, 15-30' high, somewhat leafy ; leaves sheath- 



