346 BOTANT. 



and in the mountains to Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona. On the banks 

 of the Truckee and in mountain canons of Nevada and the "Wahsatch ; 

 4 7,000 feet altitude; May-October. 1-3 i° high, the larger specimens 

 with leaves 8' long and 1 J' wide ; berries 3-5" in diameter. (1,169.) 



PoLYGONATUM GIGANTEUM, Dietr. Northern States ; on the Winnipeg 

 and Saskatchewan; Montana, (Suckley;) also collected by Stansbury, but 

 the locality uncertain. 



LiLiUM PAKVUM, Kell. Trans. Calf. Acad. 2. 179, t. 52. Stem U-2l° 

 high ; lower leaves verticillate, the upper scattered, 2-3' long, lanceolate, 

 acute or acuminate, 3-nerved, somewhat roughened beneath and upon the 

 margin ; the ciliate bracts 5-7-nerved ; flowers rather small, verticillate by 

 threes and alternate above, long-peduncled, erect or suberect, oblong-cam- 

 panulate, the sessile sepals 1-li' long, revolute above the middle, red and 

 somewhat spotted. — California and Nevada, (Dorr.) Specimens , in Herb. 

 Gray., which probably belong to this species, (10 Anderson from near Carson 

 City, 526 Torrey from Donner Pass, and 351 Bridges from California,) are 

 perfectly smooth, the stems 1-25-flowered, the flowers all scattered (or the 

 lowermost subverticillate) and each peduncle subtended by a single bract. It 

 should probably be considered but a variety of L. Canadense, which appears 

 to assume several forms upon the western coast. 



Feitillaeia^ ateopuepueea, Nutt. Jour. Acad. Phil. 7. 54. Stem 4'-2° 

 high, from a flat circular bulbiferous root, 1-9-flowered ; leaves linear, ls-4' 

 long, 1-2" wide, scattered or the lower ones rarely in a whorl, obtuse or 

 acute ; flowers on J' peduncles, dark-brown, variegated with greenish-white 

 or yellow ; sepals 5-9" long, subrhombric-lanceolate and spreading ; filaments 

 filiform ; anthers oblong ; stigmas widely recurved ; capsule 6-12" long, 5-9" 

 in diameter, hexagonal and 6-winged, truncate above and abruptly narrowed 

 at base ; seeds very numerous. — Stem and leaves usually tinged with brown 



TEITILLAEIA, Toukn. Perianth regular, deciduous, of six distinct subequal sepals, campann- 

 late-oonnivent, with an immarginate narrow nectariferous gland above the base of each. Filaments 6, 

 subulate-filiform, adherent to the sepals only at base, subhypogynous. Anthers linear-oblong, attached 

 anteriorly above the base to the filament, versatile, dehiscing longitudinally on the inner side. Ovary 

 free, sessile, triangular, 3-celled ; ovules numerous, in two rows, horizontal, anatropous. Style subcla- 

 vately thickened at the apex, deciduous. Stigma trifid, (entire in F. piidica,) with linear canaliculately 

 folded obtuse lobes. Capsule obtusely triangular, (6-angled in F. KamUcliatcensis, 6-winged in F. lancc- 

 olata and atropurpurea,) coriaceous, loculicidally 3-valved, without central columns and the valves 

 introrsely ciliate on the margin. Seeds flat, broadly half-obovate, widely margined, cinnamon-brown, 

 the thin membranous testa adherent to the albumen. Embryo very minute, oblong, straight. — Bulbous 

 herbs, with simple leafy stems, racemosely 1-many-flowered ; leaves sessHe; flowers uoddiijg, mostly 

 tessellately variegated. 



