CATALOGUE. 347 



or purple. Collected by Wyeth in Montana. Frequent in the mountains 

 through Nevada and in the Wahsatch ; 5-9,500 feet altitude; May-Au- 

 gust. (1,170.) 



Fkitillaeia pudica, Spreng. System. 2. 64, Stem 3-8' high, from 

 a flattened disk-like bulbiferous corm, 1-6-flowered ; leaves linear, lj-4' 

 long, 2-3" wide, obtuse, scattered ; flowers deep-yellow, campanulate, often 

 solitary, on rather long nodding peduncles, erect in fruit ; sepals 5-9" long, 

 obovate-spatulate, sessile, the gland usually obscure ; stigma entire ; capsule 

 8-12" long, oblong or subglobose, truncate above, abruptly narrowed at base ; 

 seeds very numerous. — From Washington Territory and Oregon to Montana 

 and Utah. Washoe Mountains, near Carson City, Nevada, and in the Wah- 

 satch ; 5-6,000 feet altitude ; April, May. (1,171.) 



Calochoetus ^ NuTTALLii, T. & G. Pac. R. R. Surv. 2, {Bot. Beck- 

 witKs Rep.,) p. 124. Stem 6-20' high, simple, 1-4-flowered, with 1-3 nar- 

 rowly linear revolute leaves, 2-4' long, the radical ones (1-few) longer 

 (8-12') and usually broader, (4" ;) flowers on peduncles l|-2' long, in a 

 terminal umbel, with an involucre of two or more sheathing leaf-like 

 bracts ; outer segments ovate-lanceolate, greenish with a scarious margin, 

 often slightly colored and bearded within, and frequently nearly as long as 

 the inner, , which are dilated, (lj-2' long, 9-18'' wide,) obovate-cuneate, 

 rounded-obtuse or abruptly pointed, white above with a tinge of green or 

 purple, a small purple spot below the center, yellow and usually slightly 

 bearded with long hairs toward the base around an oval or oblong gland, 

 which is densely tufted with short hairs ; anthers linear-oblong, 4" long, 

 obtuse, equaling the rather narrow filaments ; mature capsule long-oblong, 

 1-2' long, 3-4" wide, very obtusely triangular, tapering upward. — From 

 Idaho and Western Montana to Utah and Northern California. Frequent 

 on the foot-hills through Nevada and Utah ; 4,500-6,000 feet altitude ; 

 May-July. The " Sego" of the Utes and Mormons. (1,172.) 



' CALOCHOETUS, Puesh. (Including Cyclohoihra, Sweet.) Periautli 6-parted, regular, deciduous, 

 ventrioose or broadly campanulate ; sepals distinct, convolute in sestivation, the outer smaller, often 

 greenish, oblong or lanceolate, acute or acuminate, spreading, usually beardless, the inner broadly obo- 

 vate, cuueate and subunguiculate, bearded within and with a glabrous spot or nectariferous pit above 

 the base. Stamens 6, inserted at the base of the sepals. Filaments subulate. Anthers hnear-oblong, 

 deeply perforated at the base for the insertion of the filament, erect, versatile. Ovary free, triangular, 

 scarcely attenuate at the apex, .3-celled, with numerous horizontal anatropous ovules in two rows. Stig- 

 mas 3, sessile or subaessile, narrow, folded, recurved, persistent. Capsule triangular, coriaoeous-charta- 

 ceous, septioidally 3-valved. Seeds usually in one row, somewhat compressed, angular, with a loose cellu- 

 lar testa. Embryo straight, terete, eccentric. — Herbs, with tunicated bulbs, erect somewhat branched 

 leafy few-flowered stems, narrow and acuminate leaves, and terminal flowers. 



