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LTLIACE^E. 



3 or 4 in. high, 1 to 3 lines broad; leaves 3 to 5 lines broad; flowers 

 rose-color, the lanceolate segments attenuate and spreading above, 

 very minutely glandular-serrate, 4 to 7 lines long, nearly twice longer 

 than the stamens and style; capsule acute, with 3 short narrow central 

 crests. 



Mayacamas Range from near St. Helena to the Middleton (Lake 

 Co.) Grade. May, 



4. A. Breweri Wats. Bulbs large, 6 to 9 lines in diameter, the 

 coats without reticulation; scapes 1 or 2 in. high; leaves 3 to 5 lines 

 broad; bracts acute; pedicels 4 lines long; flowers deep rose-color, the 

 lanceolate acute segments nearly erect, 5 to 6 lines long, a third 

 longer than the stamens; ovary and capsule with a thick, slightly 

 lobed crest upon each cell. 



Summit of Mt. Diablo, Brewer, no. 1060. 



5. A. lacunosum Wats. Scape 3 to 6 in. high; bulb-coats light 

 colored, thick and distinctly pitted by the quadrate or transversely 

 oblong reticulation, the outline of the cells very minutely sinuous; 

 umbels 10 to 20-flowered, the pedicels 3 to 5 lines long; bracts broadly 

 ovate, tipped with a slender-subulate point; flowers small (3 lines 

 long); perianth-segments oblong-lanceolate, or oblong, acute, a little 

 exceeding the stamens; filaments narrowly deltoid below; ovary-cells 

 with an obtuse thickened ridge toward the summit on each side. 



Collected by Brewer on Mariposa Peak, Santa Clara Co., 1862, no. 

 1284; (?) Mt. Diablo, Greene. 



6. A. serratum Wats. Bulb-coats with a distinct close hori- 

 zontally serrate denticulation; bracts narrowly acuminate; perianth- 

 segments pink, broadly ovate-lanceolate, 4 to 6 lines. long, acute or 

 somewhat acuminate, nearly straight and rather .rigid, the inner 

 narrower, somewhat snorter and rarely serrulate; filaments tall w^th a 

 narrowly deltoid base; crests very narrow, central. 



Low hills. Description chiefly from the Botany of California. 



7. A. attenuifofium Kell. Bulb-coats commonly reddish, with a 

 delicate transversely sinuate or serrate reticulation, the vertical lines 

 especially also minutely sinuous; scape slender, 6 to 13 in. high, 

 leaves narrow and becoming convolute-filiform above the sheathing 

 base; bracts 2, short, abruptly acute; umbel erect, usually dense; 

 pedicels 25 to 35, 3 to 8 lines long; flowers white or nearly so, the 

 oblanceolate acuminate segments 3 or 4 lines long, more or less 

 exceeding the stamens and style. 



From San Francisco Bay and Mariposa Co. northward in both 

 ranges of mountains. 



Var. monospermum (A. monospermum Jepson). Scapes in 

 clusters of 2 to 4; bracts 3; capsule by abortion 1-celled and 1-seeded. 

 — Vaca Mountains. 



11. CAMASSIA Lindl. 



Acaulescent plants with linear leaves, slender scapes from a tuni- 

 cated bulb, and dark blue or nearly white flowers in a simple raceme. 



