344 BOTANY. 



ing at base, (even the 1-2 uppermost bract-like ones,) broad-linear, 4-8" 

 wide, rough-margined and roughish-puberulent on both sides, folded-carinate 

 and mostly falcate; raceme panicled, many-flowered, the lower branches 

 spreading, short, the terminal ones elongated, (3-10';) flowers on slender 

 pedicels, often sterile and short-pedicelled in the lower racemes ; bracts mem- 

 branous ; sepals 1-2" long, oblong, abruptly somewhat narrowed at base, the 

 rather broad claw green and glandular ; ovary-cells about 10-ovuled ; capsule 

 oblong-ovate or oblong, i-l' long ; seeds 3-5" long, oblong.— An examina- 

 tion of numerous specimens leaves no doubt of the distinctness of these two 

 species. Bulb as in the last, but usually larger, the whole plant stout, grow- 

 ing on dry foot-hills, and in flower a month earlier. The root of neither spe- 

 cies is eaten by the Indians. Oregon and Washington Territory. Frequent 

 on the foot-hills of the Virginia, Trinity and West Humboldt Mountains, Ne- 

 vada, and in the Wahsatch; 5-6,000,feet altitude; May, June. (1,164.) 



Veeatrum album, L. Raceme panicled, pubescent ; bracts at the base 

 of the branches oblong ; pedicels much shorter than the calyx ; sepals oblong, 

 ■rather. obtuse, somewhat fimbriate-denticulate, spreading; leaves plicate, the 

 lower elliptical. — Flowers numerous in a rather close strict panicle, ochroleu- 

 cous with a darker green or brownish base; segments 4r-5" long, oblong, 

 attenuate at base ; branchlets of the panicle tomentose ; leaves varying from 

 lanceolate to nearly orbicular ; 3-5° high. Collected by Parry in the Middle 

 Park, Colorado, and by Anderson (105) near Carson City, Nevada. The 

 specimens of Wright's collection from Ochotsk Sea are somewhat less tomen- 

 tose and the sepals more deeply denticulate. V. Californicum, Dur., is only 

 rather more loosely panicled. The Oregon and Alaska form has greenish 

 flowers, with the branches of the panicle elongated and drooping, and is V. 

 Eschscholtzii, Gray, and nearly V. Lohelianutn, Banks., which is V. album, /S., 

 Cham. & Ledeb. The eastern V. viride seems to differ only in the green 

 herbaceous perianth, the segments perhaps rather less attenuate at base, 

 the panicle more open and with longer branches. East Humboldt Mount- 

 ains, Nevada, and in the Wahsatch ; 6-9,000 feet altitude ; June-Septem- 

 ber. (1,165.) 



Prosaetes^ trachycarpa. Stem l-li° high, glabrous or pubescent; 



' The chaiacters of the fruit aid much in determining the species of this somewhat confused 

 genus. Most of the -v^estern forms have heen referred to P. Sooheri, Torr. This species is more or less 

 roughish-pubesoent, the leaves deeply cordate and clasping, very scabrous upon the margin ; flowers 

 gleenish, usually truncate at base, the sepals broad-lanceolate and rather obtuse, about equaling the 



