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BOTANY. 
Erytiironium grandiflorum, var. multiflorum : foliis immaculatis ; floribus 1-6 racemosis; 
sepalis lanceolatis acuminatis a basi fere reflexis ; stigmate clavato-capitato. Ilill-sides, Downie- 
ville, California ; May 21. Some of the scapes, which had apparently been stung by an insect, 
were 10-15 flowered. Sepals bright lilac, yellow at the base on the inside. 
Fritillaria Kamtschatcensis, Fiscli. in Hook. FI. Bor-Am. 2, p. 181, t. 193, A. F. biflora, 
Lindl. Bot. Beg. fol. 1663; Hook. & Am. Bot. Beech, p. 397. Laguna of Santa Rosa Creek, 
California ; May, (in fruit.) The specimens are mostly single flowered ; stem about 14 inches 
high, mostly naked above. Lowest leaves verticillate in threes, the others few and scattered. 
Capsule subglobose, obtusely 6-angled. A variety? from hill-sides, Sonoma, has the stem 2- 
flowered, and the (immature) capsule acutely 6-angled. 
Fritillaria mutica, Lind. 1. c.; Hook. & Am. 1. c. San Francisco, April 30, (in flower;) 
mountains near Oakland, California, April 4, (also in flower ;) hill-sides, Martinez, April 23, 
(in fruit, but immature.) The capsule of this species is strongly 6-winged, as in F. lanceolata, 
Pursh, from this species is hardly distinct. 
Fritillaria liliacea, Lindl. 1. c.; Hook. & Am. 1. c. Hill-sides near Nevada; May 21, 
(flower.) 
Fritillaria parviflora (sp. nov.): foliis anguste lanceolato-linearibus, infimis verticillatis, 
superioribus sparsis ; floribus sparsis longe racemosis nutantibus ; bracteis pedicellos recurvos 
multo longioribus ; perianthio basi subangusto; stylo usque ad medium fere trifido ; capsula 
hexaptera. Hill-sides near Murphy’s, California ; May 16, (in flower.) This species is near 
F. lanceolata, but it has more numerous (5-20) and much smaller flowers, (scarcely three-fourths 
of an inch long.) Sepals with an obscure nectariferous groove, greenish-purple, with darker 
strim, but not spotted. 
Cyclobothra alba, Benth. in Ilort. Trans. ( n. ser .) 1 , p. 413, t. 14,/. 3; Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 
t. 1661; Hook. & Am. Bot. Beech . p. 399. Grass Valley, May 19, (in fl. & fr.;) hill-sides and 
ravines, Sonoma; May. 
Cyclobothra pulchella, Benth. 1. c. t. 14,/. 1; Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1662; Hook. & Am. 1. c. 
Hill-sides, Napa Valley ; April 27. 
Cyclobothra elegans, Lindl. 1. c.; Kunth, Enum. 4, p. 229. Calochortus elegans, Pursh, Fl. 
1 , p. 240; Dougl. in Hort. Trans. 7 , p. 278, t. 9,/. 13. Hills near Punta de los Reys ; April 
17. The Calochortus Tolmmi, Hook. Am. 1. c. (in a note) is perhaps not distinct from this 
species. The inflorescence appears racemose from the unequal forking of the stems, each divi¬ 
sion bearing from two to four flowers. It seems to be the plant described by Pursh, who remarks 
that the petals are “ covered with long down.” There are other forms of this species in Dr. 
Bigelow’s collection: one from the mountains of Oakland, (April 4,) in which the petals are 
sparsely bearded not half way from the base ; and another (a dwarf state) from the Sierra 
Nevada (May 11) with the petals glabrous except an adnate fringed scale at the base. 
Calochortus venustus, Benth. 1. c. t. 15,/. 3 ; Hook. & Am. 1. c.; Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1669. 
Hill-sides, Knight’s Ferry, Stanislaus River, California ; May 7, (fl.) 
Calochortus luteus, Dougl. hiss.; Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1567? In the same place as the pre¬ 
ceding. This seems to be intermediate between C. luteus and C. unijlorus. With the former it 
agrees in its usually 3-flowered stem, and with the latter in its petals. It may perhaps be a 
variety of C. elegans. 
Calochortus nitidus, Dougl. in Hort. Trans. *l,p. 277, t. 9,/. A.t Cyclobothra nitida, Kunth, 
Enum. 4 , p. 230. Grass Valley, May 19 ; and hill-sides, Sonora, California, May 9. A dwarf 
plant, scarcely a span high. Stem 2-4-flowered. Pod drooping, ovate, not winged. Petals 
orange-yellow, copiously bearded. 
Lilium Canadense, Linn., yar. puberulum : caule pedunculisque minute pubescentibus ; foliis 
lato-lanceolatis margine nervisque puberulis ; floribus paucis (2-7) longe pedunculatis; sepalis a 
medio valde revolutis intus purpureo-maculatis. Grows in all the region between Grass Valley and 
