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Show 896 ' APPENDIX D.- BOTANY. TRIGLOOHIN iiARtTiMUM, Lin.- Pursh. Fl. 1, p. 257.-- rStan8- bury's Island,. Salt Lake, June 24. " PoLyao^ ATUM CANALICULATUMJ Pursk Fl. 1, p. 235.- Valley of the Salt Lake? AMiANTHraM HUTTALLH, Gr* y, J* elanth.\ in' Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. - N. York, IV., p. 123. r Helonias angu9tifoHa9 and H. panicidatay Nutt.- r- Valley of the Salt Lake. Fl. May 1. AMBLIBION, Rafiii. in Journ. de Phys. 89, p. 102; Bernhardi, Bot. Zeit. 1835, p. 395? ( ex Kth. Enum. 4, p. 255.) Lilium \ Amblirion, lEndl. gen. sub. No. 1098. Fritillaria § Euerinum, Jfutt. f A. PUDICUM, var. BIFLORUM, Torr. Lilium pudiam, Prank. • FL 1, p. 228, f. 1.; SchuU. Syst. 7, p. 401. Fritillaria pudica, Spreng. Syst. 2, p. 64; Nutt. in Joiirn. Acad, Phil. 7, p. 54. Hook. Fl. iW. Amer. 2, p. 182-, Runth Enunij 11 c.- Promontory Bange, Valley of Salt Lake. Fl. April 12. This rare and interesting plant was long ago proposed as a distinct genus by the late Mr. Bafihesque. It is allied both to j& ritillaria and to Lilium. It differs from both hi - the want of nectaries. Unfortunately the fruit is ntit known, so that it cannot be compared with, those genera in ah important character. Our specimens are all two- flowered. The root is flat, orbicular, and toothed round the border, with & cluster of little tubers on the upper side at the base of the stem. The leader ajfe linear, and from two to four inches long. The flowers are yellow, nodding,, about an inch in length, somewhat obconical or funriel- Jbrm, and entirely destitute o£ a nectariferous groove. The stigma is simple and undivided. . > According to Mr. Nuttall, Fritillaria tuUpcefoliaof Caucasus is another species of this genus. I have also specimens of what may pr6ve. to be a third species, eolleoted by Colonel Fremont on the Feather Rivet, California; for the style, though thickened at the tfummit, is undivided, and the nectary is* wanting; Irat there are several flowers in a loose racemose panicle. Plate IX. AmblirioA pudicum, of the natural sice. Fig. 1, a sepal magnified^ as are all the following. * Fig. 2, a Stamen showing the back of the anther. Fig.. 8, a front view of the same. Fig. 4, the pistil. Fig. 5, a cross section of the ovary. |