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LILIACEAE 



25. Allium parryi S. Wats. Parry's Onion 



Fig. 



953. 



Allium tan\i S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 14: 2ol. 1871. 

 Allium kcssicri Davids. Bull. S. Calif. Acad. 20: 49. 1921. 



Bulb round-ovoid, scarceh' over 1 cm. long, the 

 coats reddish, without reticulations. Scape 7- 

 20 cm. high, terete, rather slender; leaf solitary, the 

 sheath extending above the ground, exceeding the 

 scape, 2-3.5 mm. wide, becoming revolute ; bracts 

 2 or 3, ovate, 10-12 mm. long, abruptly setaceously- 

 acuminate ; umbel loose, the pedicels 12-30, 8-15 

 mm. long, slender ; perianth rose-purple, the outer 

 segments lanceolate, acuminate, 6-8 mm. long, erect 

 or the tips slightly spreading, the inner scarcely 

 narrower: stamens equalling to three-fourths the 

 length of the perianth-segments ; stigma with 3 

 linear lobes : capsule with 6 prominent erect crests 

 often 2 mm. high and emarginate or erose. 



Usually in adobe soil. Upper Sonoran and Arid Transi- 

 tion Zones; Santa Clara and Kern Counties. California, 

 south, especially on the desert slopes to the INIexican bound- 

 ary. Type locality: .San Bernardino ^Mountains, California. 



26. Allium sanbornii Wood. 

 Sanborn's Onion. Fig. 954. 



Allium sanbornii Wood, Proc. Acad. Philad. 1868: 171. 1868. 

 Allium intactum Jepson, Fl. Calif. 1: 273. 1922. 



Bulb ovoid, 15-20 mm. long, the outer coats usually 

 reddish tinged, without reticulation, marked with a few 

 longitudinal ribs and with obscure venation between the 

 ribs. Scapes 2-4 dm. high, rather slender, terete; leaves 

 solitary, much shorter than the scapes, 2-3 mm. wide, 

 channelled or nearly terete ; bracts 4. lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate, about 15 mm. long; umbels rather crowded. 40-100- 

 liowered, the pedicels filiform, about 15 mm. long; peri- 

 anth pale rose, 6 mm. long, the segments ovate, acute ; 

 stamens slightly exceeding perianth-segments, the filaments 

 filiform, slightly dilated at base ; style 3 mm. long ; stigma 

 3-lobed ; crests of ovary prominent, entire or erose. 



On shady hillsides. Arid Transition Zone; western slopes of the 

 Sierra Nevada from Shasta to Mariposa Counties, California. Tyi)e 

 locality: near Foster's Bar, Yuba County. 



27. Allium acuminatum Hook. Hooker's Onion. 



Fig. 95: 



Allium acuminatum Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 184. 1840. 

 Allium murrayannm Regel, Gartenfl. 1873: 260. 1873. 



Bulb ovoid, about 15 mm. long, the outer 

 coats gray, the inner white ; reticulations of 

 distinct quadrate or hexagonal pitted meshes, 

 the walls tliick, not at all sinuous. Scape 1-3 

 dm. high, terete ; leaves 2 or more, shorter 

 than the scape, 2-3 mm. wide ; bracts 2, 

 ovate-lanceolate, long-acuminate. 20-25 mm. 

 long; umbels open, 7-25-flowered, the pedicels 

 10-20 mm. long ; perianth deep rose-purple, 

 10-15 mm. long, the outer segments lanceolate 

 long-acuminate with recurved tips, entire, the 

 inner shorter and serrulate; stamens two-thirds 

 the length of the perianth-segments : crests of 

 ovar)- 3, very small, becoming olisolete. 



Heavy soils, mainly Transition Zone: British 



Columbia to the Siskiyou Mountains, California, east 



to northern Idaho and Salt Lake. Type locality: 

 Nootka Sound. 



Allium acuminatum cuspidatum Ferna'.d, Zoe 4: 

 380. 1894. Small |)lant with more slender scapes; 

 perianth 4-10 mm. long, the segments oblong, abruptly 

 cuspidate; stamens nearly equalling the perianth-seg- 

 ments. Dry jilains of the Great Basin region, extend- 

 ing from eastern Washington to Utah. Ty;>e locality: 

 Wawawai, Washington. 



