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the margin; spatlie 4-6-bracted, the segments subulate-linear, connate at 

 base; pedicels 6-12, not jointed, j-1' long; perianth 3" long, greenish or 

 yellowish-white with darker subcarinate midveins, the segments very shortly 

 connate at base, erect or subspreading, oblong or lanceolate, somewhat sac- 

 culate at the tip ; stamens in one row, shorter than the sepals, the filaments 

 subulate from a scarcely dilated adnate base ; style rather thick, with a 

 shortly 3-cleft or capitate stigma ; capsule globular, sessile, the cells obtuse, 

 10-ovuled and about 3-seeded. — Approaching Allium § Nothoscordum, from 

 which it is separated especially by the characters of the root, which is that 

 of Milla and Brodicea, a fibrously coated corm, the older flat and disk-like 

 joints fringed with rootlets and easily separating. Coast of California from 

 Monterey to Punta de los Eeyes. Near Steamboat Springs in Washoe Val- 

 ley, Nevada. (1,190.) 



Yucca 1 A communication from Dr. George Engelmann upon 



the western species of this genus will be given in the Appendix. 



JUNCACE^. 



LuzuLA SPADiCEA, DC. Steud. 8yn. Cyp. 202. Shortly stoloniferous ; 

 leaves flat, nearly smooth ; sheaths smooth or bearded at the throat ; inflo- 

 rescence twice-compound, spreading, longer than the involucre ; sepals nearly 

 equal, ovate, mucronate, shorter than the triangular-ovate capsule ; stamens 

 a fourth shorter than the sepals ; testa of the subglobose seed very shortly 

 papillose at the apex. Var. paevifloea, Led. Stolons slightly longer ; rad- 

 ical leaves long and dilated, smooth throughout ; branches of the decompound 

 cyme very unequal ; flowers very small and brownish, the lateral ones on long 

 capillary at length nodding pedicels ; anthers scarcely exceeding the fila- 

 ment. — Ledebour, Hooker and other authorities agree in referring L. parm- 

 Jlora, melanocarpa, &c., to spadicea. The specimens of the collection vary to 

 some extent; — 1-2° high, the sheaths for the most part somewhat bearded; 

 flowers light or dark-colored; capsule acute or very obtuse, mucronate. From 

 Northern New York to Maine and Labrador ; Canada, and westward in the 

 Rocky Mountains, and to Washington Territory, Sitka and Behring Strait ; 

 Colorado. East Humboldt and Clover Mountains, Nevada ; and in the Wah- 

 satch and Uintas; 9,000 feet altitude; July-September. (1,191.) 



LuzuLA CAMPESTEis, DC. Throughout the eastern United States, in 

 Arkansas, Colorado and California, and northward to Newfoundland, the Sas- 



