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LILIACEAE 



43. Allium hyalinum Curraii. 

 Paper-flowered Onion. Fig. 971. 



Allium hyaliiunn Curran, Bull. Calif. Acad. 1: 155. 18S5. 



Bulbs ovoid, 10 mm. high, the coats thin, gray, the 

 reticulations forming narrowly linear \^-shaped meslics 

 appearing in perpendicular rows. Scape slender, terete, 

 15-30 mm. high ; leaves 2 or sometimes solitary, flat, 

 1-5 mm. wide, shorter or nearly equalling the scape; 

 bracts ovate-lanceolate, 15-20 mm. long, acuminate; 

 umbel open, 6-10-tlowered ; pedicels 20-25 mm. long, 

 widely spreading; perianth-segments white or tinged 

 with pink, ovate-lanceolate, acute, 7-9 mm. long ; stamens 

 two-thirds the length of the perianth-segments, the fila- 

 ments dilated at base and united ; capsule not crested. 



On shaded canon slopes, foothills of the Sierra Nevada, from 

 El Dorado to Kern Counties, California. Upper Sonoran Zone. 

 Type loc'ality: Salmon Falls, El Dorado County. 



44. Allium praecox Brandg. 

 Early Onion. Fig. 972. 



Allium f^iaeco.v Brandg. Zoe 5: 228. 1908. 

 Alliiiui hyalinum praecox Jepson, Fl. Calif. 1: 276. 



1921. 



Bulb ovoid, about 10 mm. broad, the outer coats 

 gray-brown, with conspicuous serrated reticulations. 

 Scape 3-5 dm. high, rather stout ; leaves 2-4. from 

 near the base, flat, shorter than the scape, 2-4 mm. 

 wide; bracts 2, 20-25 mm. long, acuminate; umbels 

 open. 10-20-flowered ; pedicels 2-3 cm. long ; per- 

 ianth-segments white with rose-purple midvein, ovate- 

 acuminate, becoming 9-10 mm. long, the inner equal- 

 ling the outer in length, but narrower ; stamens two- 

 thirds the length of the segments ; capsule without 

 crests. 



On shaded slopes, Upper and Lower Sonoran Zones; San 

 Bernardino County, California, to northern Lower California, 

 also on Santa Cruz Island. Type locality: northern slopes 

 of caiions about San Diego. 



45. Allium unifolium Kell. One-leaved Onion. Fig. 973. 



Allium unifolium Kell. Proc. Calif. Acad. 2: 112. 1861. 

 Allium unifolium lacteum Greene, Pittonia 2: 55. 1890. 



Bulb ovoid, 12-15 mm. long, from lateral bulblets 

 produced on stout rhizomes, the outer coats with 

 linear transverse undulating reticulations. Scape 

 stout, terete, 25^0 cm. high ; leaves 2-4, flat or 

 somewhat carinate, shorter than the scape, 2-8 mm. 

 wide ; bracts 2, 2-3 cm. long, ovate-lanceolate, acum- 

 inate ; umbels many-flowered ; pedicels about 3 cm. 

 long; perianth-segments spreading, bright rose, 10- 

 14 mm. long, oblong-lanceolate, acute or soniewhat 

 acuminate ; stamens scarcely two-thirds the length of 

 the segments, the filaments deltoid Iielow and imited 

 at base ; ovary with 3 low flat ridges, disappearing in 

 age ; capsule not crested. 



Usually in adobe soil. Copper Sonoran Zone; California 

 Coast Ranges from Mendocino County to northern Lower 

 California. Type locality; vicinity of Oakland, California. 

 The name is ill-advised, as the leaves are rarely solitary. 



