270 LILIACEAE 



Absent from the Colorado and Mohave deserts and the arid region east of the 

 Sierra Nevada, and the Redwood belt. July-Aug;. 



Locs. — Bear Valley, Nevada Co., Jepson; Gwin Mine, Calaveras Co., Jepson; Heteh-Hetchy, 

 Jepsmi ; Nortli Fork Kaweah River, Jepson ; Hupa Valley, P. E. Ooddard ; Mt. Konocti, Lake 

 Co., Jepson; Mt. Tamalpais, E. MulUken 72; Little Oak, Solano Co., Jepson; Coyote Creek, 

 Santa Clara Co., Jepson; San Luis Obispo, Summers 825; Lower Eubio Caiion, Peirson 10; 

 San Bernardino, Parisli. 



Refs. — CnLOROG.\LUM pomeridianum Kunth. Enum. PI. 4:682 (1843) ; Torr. Bot. Mex. 

 Bound. 218, pi. 60 (1859) ; Wats. Bot. Cal. 2:159 (1880) ; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 121 (1901). 

 Antliericum pomeridianum Ker. Bot. Reg. t. 564 (1821), tvpe not given. Laothoe pomeridiana 

 Raf. Fl. Tellur. 3:53 (1836). 



2. C. angustifolium Kell. Plants li,; to 2 feet high ; biilb-eoats membranous, 

 light reddish-brown ; basal leaves 4 to 12 inches long, 1 to 2 or 3 lines broad, be- 

 coming revolute ; panicle with few ascending branches ; pedicels about 2 lines 

 long ; perianth funnelform-campanulate, the segments oblong-linear, 4 to 5 lines 

 long, white with yellowish-green veins ; ovary on a short stipe. 



Lower foothills of the Sierra Nevada, Calaveras Co. north to Shasta Co., 

 thence south in the inner Coast Range to Mendocino Co. 



Locs. — Milton, Davii 1229; lone, Braunton 1005; Blue Ravine, Eldorado Co., K. Brandegee ; 

 Redding, HaU # Babc'ock 4003; Round Valley (Zoe, 4:159). 



Refs. — Chloroo.\lum .\.ngustifolium KeU. Proc. Cal. Acad. 2:104, fig. 30 (1863), type loc. 

 Shasta, Veateh; Wats. Bot. Cal. 2:160 (1880); Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 121 (1901). Laothoe 

 angustifolia Greene, Leafl. 1:91 (1904). 



3. C. parviflorum Wats. Plants 1 to 2 feet high ; bulb 1 inch in diameter ; 

 basal leaves grass-like (2 to 3 lines broad) ; pedicels short, 1 or rarely 2 lines 

 long; flowers pinkish or white with rose-eolored midnerve; perianth-segments 

 oblong-lanceolate, spreading from above the base, 3 or sometimes 4 lines long; 

 style exserted as ovary matures ; ovary broad and obtuse, sessile. 



Cismontane Southern California in Riverside and San Diego cos., from the 

 eoa-st inland 24 to 35 miles. 



Locs. — Menifee, Riverside Co., E. Foster; Oceanside, Parisli 4444; San Diego, Jepson 1600; 

 Alpine, T. Brandegee. 



Refs. — Chlorogalum parvipi.orum Wats. Proc. Ani. Acad. 14:243 (1879), type loc. El 

 Cajon Valley, San Diego Co., D. Cleveland. Laothoe parviflora Greene, Leafl. 1:91 (1904). 



4. C. purpureum Brandegee. Plants 14 to 20 inches high ; bulbs light- 

 colored, ovoid, 34 to 1 inch in diameter ; basal leaves narrowly linear. 1 to 2 lines 

 wide, undulate; pedicels as long or longer than the (3 lines long) perianth; 

 perianth-segments spreading from above the base, oblong-ovate, blue or purplish 

 with 3 darker midveins ; stamens about equaling the segments ; style sometimes 

 slightly exserted in old flowers; ovary sessile. 



Western Monterey Co. June. 



Locs. — Jolon, Hall 10019; Milpitas Ranch, Eastuwod. 



Refs. — Chlorog^vlum purpukeum Brandegee, Zoe 4:159 (1893), type loc. Santa Lucia 

 Mts., W. Fortriede. Laothoe purpurea Greene, Leafl. 1:91 (1904). 



13. ALLIUM L. Wild Onion 



Stem seapose, from a tunieated or sometimes rhizome-like bulb or from a 

 corm, with basal leaves, and bearing an unbel or head of flowers subtended by 

 2 or 3 thin whitish or scarious bracts. Herbage with the characteristic taste and 

 odor of onions. Leaves narrow and plane, or convolute-filiform or terete. Peri- 

 anth of 6 di.stinct or nearly dLstinet ecjual 1-nerved segments, campanulate or 

 spreading. Stamens inserted on the base of tlie segments ; filaments often dilated 

 below. Ovules 2 (rarely several) in each cell; style filiform, persistent; stigma 

 simple or 3-parted. Capsule obovate or globose, obtusely 3-lobed, often crested ; 

 seeds 1 or 2 in each cell, black, wrinkled. — Species 250, north temperate zone. 

 (Ancient Latin name of garlic.) 



