850 
BOTANY. 
leaves broadly linear, 8-12' long, 3-8" wide; raceme elongated, 10-20- 
flowered ; bracts longer than the pedicels ; flowers blue-purple, 6-10" long, 
with linear-lanceolate sepals ; capsules oblong, 6-8" long, 5" broad, the cells 
12-16-seeded. — Stouter than the eastern species, from which it differs in its 
broader leaves, larger flowers, oblong capsules, and more numerous seeds. 
Coatings of the bulb with numerous fascicles of acicular raphides, as in Ziga- 
denus Nuttallii and paniculata. The genus appears sufficiently distinct from 
Scilla^ (as Dr. Torrey has already said,) in its several-veined and more 
widely spread sepals and hypogynous stamens. Washington Territory to 
Cahfornia. Antelope Island in Salt Lake, and in the Wahsatch ; 4,500-6,000 
feet altitude ; June. (1,178) 
Allium validum. Stout, 1-2^° liigh, leafy at base ; bulb with mem- 
branous coats, oblong, crowning a thick rootstock ; leaves 3-5, nearly equal- 
ing the scape, 3-7" broad, rather thick, flat ; spathe 2-3-valved, valves broadly 
ovate, connate, acute ; umbel erect or somewhat nodding, crowded, many- 
flowered, the pedicles 4-6" long; sepals 4" long, ovate-lanceolate, long- 
acuminate, gibbous at base, white or pink ; stamens equaling the sepals and 
shorter than the filiform entire style ; filaments dilated and adnate at base ; 
capsule not crested; cells 2-seeded. — A. cernuum, hni mwch. stouter, 
umbels more erect and crowded, sepals longer and more acuminate, and 
c;q)sul(^ not crested. It is 6248 Bolander, from Mono Pass, and was also col- 
lected by Anderson near Carson City. East Humboldt and Clover Mountains, 
Nevada; in high swampy ground ; 7-9,000 feet altitude; August, Septem- 
ber. (1,179.) 
Alliuji brevistylum. Scape slender, 1-1^° high, leafy at base ; bulb 
with membranous coats, narrow-oblong, upon a thick rootstock; leaves 
1-3" wi(h', loni(-Hnear, somewhat shorter than the scape, thin and flat ; spathe 
l-valved, ()l)li([uely ccmnate-campanulate, acute ; umbel erect, few- (5-9-) 
[lowered: pedicels short (3-6";) sepals 4" long, bright rose-color, lighter 
beloM-, oblong-lanceolate, long-acuminate, gibbous at base ; stigma more 
or less 3-lobed ; capsule somewhat 3-lobcd, not crested; cells 2-seeded. — 
Found on the shaded banks of the I'rovo River in the Uintas ; 8,000 feet 
ahitude; July. (1,180.) 
xVllit'm r.ETicuLATUM, Nutt. (?) Ilook. Fl. Bor. Ainer. 2. 184, t. 195. 
Bulb obloiio-, outer coatings densely reticulate-fibrous; scape terete, 
slender, 6-15' liigli ; leaves sheathing at the base, nearly equaling the scape. 
