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nearly twice longel" than the stamens and style: capsule not crested. — Utah, 

 Colorado, and Wyoming. 



8. Allium Brandegei Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 17: 380. 1882. Bulbs small, 

 the coats membranous, reticulate-veined but not fibrous: leaves 2, exceeding 

 the angular scape: pedicels slender, equal, about 8 mm. long: flowers rose- 

 color; the segments broadly lanceolate, acute, nearly twice longer than the 

 stamens, not serrulate. — From Colorado to Idaho and Montana. 



9. Allium acuminatum Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 184. 1839. Outer bulb-coats 

 with a distinct coarse quadrate to hexagonal reticulation: pedicels 15-25 mm. 

 long: flowers deep rose-color; segments lanceolate, with acuminate recurved 

 tips, rigid in fruit, a third longer than the stamens, the inner ones undulate- 

 serrulate. — Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming. 



3. BRODIAEA Smith 



Perennial herbs from corm-Uke bulbs with fibro-membranous brown coats. 

 Scape erect. Leaves Unear. Flowers in terminal umbels with several bracts; 

 pedicels jointed. In ours the perianth is broadly tubular, blue. Stamens 6, in 

 2 rows. Capsule ovate to oblong. 



" 1. Brodiaea Douglasii Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 14: 237. 1879. Scape 

 smooth, 3^6. dm. high, erect and usually stout: leaves carinate: perianth tube 

 subsaccate, about equaling the lobes: anthers oblong; the lower on the throat 

 opposite the outer segments, the upper on the inner segments, on a short free 

 filament which forms below a prominent' wing within the tube: capsule 6 mm. 

 long, a little exceeding the stipe and slender style: seeds several in each 

 cell. — From western Wyoming to Washington and Oregon 



4. CAMASSIA Raf. Qtjamash 



Scape slenderi, from a tunicated bulb; Leaves linear'-lanoeolate, carinate. 

 Flowers in a simple raceme, with narrow scarious bracts; pedicels jointed at 

 the summit. ' Perianth blue or white, of 6 distinct obla,nceolate segments. 

 Stamens 6, on the base df the slightly gibbous perianth, shorter than the seg- 

 ments. Style slightly trifid at the apex. Capsule subglobose, 3-lobed and 

 aiigled, with several black shining seeds in each ceU. 



1. Camassia esculenta Lindl. Bot. Reg. 18: t. 1486. 1832. Scape stout, a 

 foot or two high: pedicels rather stout, mostly shorter than the usually dark 

 blue flowers: perianth-segments scarcely exceeding the style, a little longer 

 than the stamens.^WesJiern Wyoming and west to California; the bulb 

 formerly largely collected for food by the Indians. 



5. LILIUM L. Lily 



Bulb scaly, stem leafy, simple. Leaves narrow, isessile, whorled or scattered, 

 net-veined. Flowers large and showy, in ours usually solitary and erect. 

 Perjanith-'segments oblanceolate, with a linear nectariferous groove, usually 

 spotted. Anthers versatile. Style undivided. 



1. Lilium montanum A. Nels. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 26: 6. 1899. Bulb 

 depressed-globose, of thick fleshy scales: stem 3-4 dm. high: leaves smooth, 

 dark 'green, alternate except the uppermost whorl of 5-7, lanceolate, sessile: 

 the segments of the single erect flower elliptic-oblong, tapering to both ends, 

 brownish-red to orange-red, the base of the inner face dotted with purplish- 

 black spots: stamens and stigma purpUsh: capsule oblong-cylindric. L. phila- 

 delphicum. — In moist thickets near mountain streams; throughout our range. 



i 6. FRITILLARIA L. 



Bulbs of numerous thick scales., Stems ereqt, leafy, simple. Perianth 

 mostly campanulate, deciduous, of 6 equal ovate or oblong djstinct segments; 



