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sepals; anthers versatile. Style slender, decid- 
uous. Fruit a berry.—2{. Flowers on a 
scape. 
1. ©. Anprewsrana Torr. Flowers scarlet; 
berry blue.—Los Gatos. Lagunitas Creek. 
Summer. 
2. Chlorogalum Kunth. Soap-Roor. 
Perigonium 6-sepalous; sepals linear, persis- 
tent, marcescent. Stamens 6, adnate to the 
base of the sepals; anthers versatile. Cells of 
the ovary 2-ovulate; style filiform, deciduous. 
Fruit a membranaceous, 3-lobed, loculicidal 
capsule. = 2f. Bulbous; inflorescence race- 
mose, paviculate. 
1. OC, PomertmpiaANuM Kunth. Flowers white. 
Common. Summer. 
In former times used in washing linen. Old 
settlers consider it beneficial to the growth of 
the hair, like the bark of the Chilean Rosa- 
ceous tree ‘‘ Quillaja.” 
8. Allium L.  Ovzow. 
Perigonium persistent. Stamens 6, adnate 
to the base of the segments; filaments naked 
with dilated base; anthers versatile. Ovary 3- 
lobed; cells 2-ovulate; style filiform, persis- 
tent; stigma simple. Fruit a loculicidal cap- 
sule.—2; bulbous; scapigerous; inflorescence 
umbellate. 
