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CYCLOBOTHRA. Succet.
Flores nula»tes ventticosi vel campanulati. Sépala glabra, acuta. Pelala majora et dissimilia, barbata.
infra metlium fovea glabra nectarifera alle impressa extus gibbosa. Stigmata 3. Capsula triplera, conaceo-
membranacea. Semina serie simplici affixa, angulata.-Bulbi tunicati, foliis planis acummalts.
1. C. pulchella (B en th .); umbellis 2-3-floris, pedunculis bracteis brevioribus, floribus
globosis, petalis ovatis obtusis serrulato-fimbriatis fovea v alde excavata extus callosa, sepalis
ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis quam petala vix brevioribus. Benlh. Hort. Soe. Tra n s. N . S.
I . p . 416. t. 1 4 ./. 1 ; L in d l. in Bot. Beg. t. 1062.
Flowers yellow, the sepals greenish and striated with green.
s . C. alba (Ben th .); u m b e l l a 2-3-flora, pedunculis bracteis b revioribus, floribus oblongis
inflatis, petalis ovatis obtusissimis margine nudiusculis fovea lev iter impressa sepalis ovato-
lanceolatis duplo longioribus. Benth. in Hort. Soc. Tra n s. N . S . l . p . 4 13. t. 1 4 . / 3 ,
Lin d l. in Bot. Eeg. t. 1661.— Calochortus albus. Dougl.
Flowers white. Sepals of a yellowish-green. The flowers do not appear to us to be oblong, but when
expanded to be broadly ovate, nearly as in C. pulchella.
3. C. paniculata (L in à i.) ; floribus solitariis, pedunculis bracteis subæqualibus floribus
oblongis ; petalis angustis obtusis'subciliatis dimidia superiore calvis fovea leviter excav
a ta sepalis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis duplo longioribus. Lindi, in Bo t. Reg. sub t.
1662.
Præcedenti affinis ; canle. panicula, floribus solitariis, pedunculis bracteis longioribus, alabastris angustis
coeteiisque satis distincta. Flores albi. Lindl. I. C .-O Í this wc know nothing, unless it prove to be a mere
mere
form of C. alba, witb wbich il appears to us lo agree in almost every important character, as well as ii
the
while flowers.
O e d . L X I I I . A S P H O D E L E Æ . Juss.
1. Allium stellatum. T r a s .— Hooh. Flor. Bor. Am. 11. p . 184. K e r in Bot. Mag. t. 1576.
8. A. acuminatum (Hooh.); foliis linearibus brevibus paucis radicalibus, scapo humili
terete, umbella pluríflora p aten te, sepalis roseis subovalibus acuminatissimis basi gibbosis
in te rioribus minute serrulatis apicibus recurvis, staminibus conformibus perian th io duplo
fere brevioribus, ovario S-lobo, stigmate brevi tr lM o .— Hook. F h r . Bo r . Am. I I . p . 184.
t. 196.
H a b . Blue Mountams, Snake Country, abundant ; Mi- Tolmie.
3. A. Douglasii {Hook.); bulbo late ovato, foliis binis lanceolato-falcatis striatis basi
longe angusteque atten u atis radicalibus, umbella multiflora p a ten te , sepalis (roseis) ovati