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and a simple raceme of flowers which in ours are yel- 
lowish-green or whitish, often mottled with purple. 
Root thick, resembling a piece of coral, parasitic. 
C. muttirtora, Nutt. 1 to 2 feet high, many-flow- 
ered; sepals and petals 3-nerved; lip 3-lobed and bear- 
ing a spur which is grown to the ovary; capsule 1-2 to 
3-4 in. long. Amiong the pines, etc. of the Sandia 
Mountains. 
Goopyrra, Rk. Br. Rattlesnake Plantain. 
Scapes with a few bracts; leaves thick, arranged in 
a rosette at the base. NRootstock creeping with fleshy 
roots. 
G. meEnziEssi, Iindl. Scape pubescent; leaves 
smooth, ovate-oblong or oblong-lanceolate marked along 
the main veins with light green markings giving to the 
leaf a peculiar appearence. Flowers white. Among 
the Douglas Spruces high up in the Sandias. Not 
common. In Fern Canon branch of Bear Canon. 
65. IRIDEAE. (Iris Famity. 
Pernnial herbs, with 2-ranked sheathing leaves; per- 
fect flowers, perianth petal-like, 6-cleft, in two sets of 
three each, the tube adherent to the 3-celled ovary but 
above it in ours, 3 distinct stamens. 
Ir1s, Tourn. (Fleur-de-Luce, Flag.) 
Stamens beneath the 3 arching petal-like branches of 
thestyle. Stems from a thick rootstock near the sur- 
face of the ground. Flowers pale blue in ours and 
usually 2 together. 
I. Missouriensis, Nutt. (Western Iris.) 
Stems naked or with 1 or 2 leaves, 6 to 24 in. high; 
leaves shorter; flower 2 to 3 in. long. Among the 
oaks of Rim Rock. 
66. LILIACEAE. (Liry Famiry. 
Herbs or rarely woody plants with regular symmet- 
rical flowers, perianth free from the 3-celled ovary, 6 
stamens. Here belongs the Asparagus of the gardens. 
A. officinalis which frequently runs wild in the valley. 
Floral bracts scarious, stamens perigynous. 
Flowers in umbells, stems from a bulb, 
- - - - 2) Chin ADO. 
Flowers in racemes or panicles, no bulb. 
Perianth segments many-nerved, leaves thick, 
fruit a pod, - - - (2) Yucca. 
Perinath segments 1-nerved. 
Fruit a pod, leaves linear, (3) Nozrna. 
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