CATALOGUE. 353 
capsule slightly crested before maturity, the cells 2-seeded.— Closely alHed 
to A.faldfolium^ which is readily distinguished by its broader gibbous-based 
carinate and glandular sepals, the half-shorter stamens and style, and divided 
stigma, (Plate XXXVI. Figs. 7 and 8. Flowers ; enlarged two diameters,) 
and without marked reticulation in the bulb-coatings of the specimens ex- 
amined. Near Washoe and Carson Cities, Nevada, (Veatch, and 23 Ander- 
son, mostly ;) now collected in the same region at Steamboat Springs and 
near Grlendale ; 4,500 feet altitude ; April, May. Plate XXXVI. Fig. 4. 
Plant; natural size. Fig. 5. Flower; enlarged two diameters. Fig. G. 
Eeticulation of the bulb-coat ; enlarged thirty diameters. (1,186.) 
Allium teibracteatum, Torr. Bulbs without rootstock, the coats w ith 
a rather minute flattened or somewhat regular hexagonal reticulation ; sca]>e 
slender, 1-4' high, terete, naked; leaves not sheathing, very narrowly linear, 
^-1^" w^ide, exceeding the scape ; spathe 2-3-valved; pedicels (10-20) scarcely 
equaling the flowers, spreading ; sepals 3-4'^ long, light-pink, oblong-Luiceo- 
late, acute, erect or recurved, exceeding the stamens ; capsule not crested, the 
cells 1-2-seeded. — California. Antelope Island Peak, Salt Lake, and in the 
Wabsatch ; 6-7,000 feet altitude ; June. Plate XXXVIII. Fig. 6. Flower; 
enlarged tw^o diameters. Fig. 7. Reticulation of the bulb-coat ; enlarged 
thirty diameters. (1,187.) 
Var. (?) Andersoni. Bulb-reticulation scarcely distinguishable; bracts 
always only two, broad and connate ; flowers turbinate at base ; sepals very 
deep rose-color, oblong-lanceolate or broad-oblong, oljtuse, erect. — Near Carson 
City, (63 and 286 Anderson.) On Mount Davidson and in Washoe Valley, 
near Steamboat Springs, Nevada ; 5-7,000 feet altitude ; April, May. (1,188.) 
Beodlea^ multifloka, Benth. Bahir, I. c, 2^. 377. {B. parviflora, and 
B. grandiflora^ Var., hrachypoda, Torr.) Bulb with the outer coatings fll)r()us, 
1' or more in thickness ; scape 1-2° long, fragile; leaves 1-1 i° long, 1.^-2" 
w^ide, fleshy-herbaceous, rather firm ; valves of the spathe 4-6" long, several, 
broad-lanceolate ; umbel crowded, 6-20-flowered, the pedicelt, shorter than 
'BRODLEA, S.MiTir. (Including Dkhelostemma, Kth., Slropliolirion, Torr., and Brcroortia, Wood.) 
Periauth fuunelform or broadly tubular, the segnienta usually longer than the tube or about ('<| ualing it, 
rarely shorter. Anthers 3, linear, sessile or nearly so on the throat of the tnbe, witli or w itlioiU w'lw^^. 
Staminodia 3, flattened, membranous, in one row wrtli the stamens. Ovary sessile or stiiiit.ite, thf e. lls 
4-«-ovuled; style straight, filiform ; stigma eapitiUv. t^iiisiih; mcnibr.inons. ohloiig-triaugulav, s. ssilf or 
stipitate, loeulicidally :5-valved, tlie sr.-ds -2-4 iu cad. rdl, small, triquetrous. Testa l.Liek, ineinbran- 
ous.— Bulbous herbs with handsome umliellate liow(.'rs, sever:il-val\ ed scathes, aiul jointed }>e(iieels. 
J. G. Baker, lieris. of Liliac, Jour of lAn. Soc. 11. :!T.'). 
The roots of this and the following genus are rallier v<>u\ti\ ...iiii- fluui innirat.-.i bulbs. 
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