New Species of Western Plants 
By ALicE EastTwoop 
’ Zygadenus micranthus 
Bulb globose, clothed with brownish black outer coats, about 
1.5 cm. in diameter: stems slender, erect, 1-5 dm. high, scabrous, 
somewhat leafy: leaves falcate, the lowest more than half the 
height of the plant, striate, scabrous, the edges folded together, 
varying greatly in width in different plants: flowers white, small, 
I cm. or less in diameter, in a simple raceme or a panicle which 
branches at base: pedicels spreading horizontally like candelabra, 
filiform, 2-4 cm. long: lowest bracts foliaceous, the upper becom- 
ing much smaller, thin and white-membranous, all attenuate : 
perianth with outer divisions sessile, ovate, obtuse, 4.5 mm. long, 
3 mm. wide or less; inner divisions oblong, 6 mm. long or less, 
a little more than 2 mm. wide, the yellow claw about 1 mm. long 
and almost as broad; glands toothed, the teeth extending to the 
veins, concave on the inner side: stamens shorter than the petals, 
with rather thick filaments 4 mm. long; anthers cordate, 1.5 mm. 
long: pistils 1 cm. long, with the styles half the entire length: 
capsules becoming 12 mm. long, slightly narrowed at top, with 
styles persistent and erect: seeds 4.5 mm. long, irregular. 
This elegant species was collected by the author, near the end 
of May, 1902, on the road between Cahto and the Eel River, 
Mendocino County, California, also on Red Mountain, in the 
northern part of the same county, at about the same time. There 
are specimens also in the herbarium of the California Academy of 
Sciences from Snow Mountain, collected by Mr. T. S. Brandegee, 
the twenty-first of June, from which the description of the fruit is 
taken, 
’ Allium Hickmani 
Small, slender plants not more than 1.5 dm. high, often 2 
scapes from the same bulb or from 2 somewhat united bulbs ; 
outer coats of bulbs with a wavy, fissile reticulation somewhat 
similar to A. serratum, but the wavy lines less zigzag : leaves fili- 
form, longer than the scapes, 2 or 3, sheathing the stem at base 
below the surface of the ground : umbels generally with about 10 
flowers, on slender pedicels 5-10 mm. long; bracts transparent, 
membranous, united at base but generally splitting down on one 
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