LILY FAMILY 279 



23. A. platycaule Wats. Scape 2 to 5 (or 6) inches high, 2 to 4 lines broad; 

 bulb l-j to 1 inch broad; leaves I/2 to 1 inch broad; flowers numerous, rose-color 

 with tips pale greenish tinged, 4 to 7 lines long, on pedicels approximately 1 inch 

 long ; segments lanceolate, very narrowly long-acuminate ; stamens conspicuously 

 e.xserted ; ovary lobes rounded, not crested. 



High valleys, Sierra Nevada from Placer Co. to Modoc Co. 



Locs. — Truckee River, Placer Co., Sonne; Webber Peak, G. E. Poore; Red Clover Creek, 

 Plumas Co., Hall 4" Babcock 4458; Susanville, T. lirandrgce; Bowmaa ranch, Warner Mts., 

 E. H. Stcffcn; Deep Creek near Cedarville, L. S. Smith 1123; Lake City, Maiming. 



Refs. — Allium platycalh^e Wats. Proe. Am. Acad. 14:234 (1879), based on spms. from 

 n. Sierra Nevada (Placer Co. to Plumas Co.). A. anccps Baker, Hot. Mag. t. 6227 (1876), 

 not KeU. 



2i. A. anceps Kell. Scape 5 to 6 inches high, 1 to 114 lines broad ; bulb- 

 coats faintly and ti'ansversely rectangular-reticulated; leaves somewhat falcate, 

 It-; to 2Vo lines broad ; flowers nuuK^rous, pale rose-color without dark midveins, 

 3 to 4 lines long, on pedicels 6 to 8 lines long ; segments oblong or linear-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, only slightly or not at all exceeding the stamens; ovary cells with a 

 thin curving ridge at summit which is truneatish or notched above. 



East of the Sierra Nevada crest from Sierra Co. north to Oregon and cast to 

 western Nevada. 



Locs. — Sierra Co., ace. Watson ; Madeline Plains, Lassen Co., C. C. Bruce. Carson City 

 (Anderson) and Reno (Cowgill), Nev. Also Bear Valley, San Bernardino Mts., ace. Parish 

 (PI. World, 20:2081. 



Var. lemmonii Jepson n. comb. Perianth-sej^nents shortly lanceolate-acuminate, 2% to 3 

 lines long: ovary cells with 2 low narrow parallel or somewhat sinuous ridges; stigma undivided. 

 — Northern Sierra Nevada: Prosser, Nevada Co., Sonne. 



Refs.— Allium anceps Kell. Proe. Cal. Acad. 2:109, fig. 32 (1863), type loc. Washoe, 

 Nev., Veatch.: Wats. Bot. King, 3.52, pi. 36, figs. 4-6 (1871). Var. LEMMONn Jepson. A. lem- 

 monii Wats. Proe. Am. Acad. 14:234 (1879), type loc. Sierra Co., Lemmon. 



25. A. modocense Jepson n. sp. Scape flattened, l^o to 2 (or 4) inches 

 high, prominently nerved, the 1 or 2 leaves twice as high ; reticulation of the 

 bulb-coat none or faintly and transversely quadratish ; umbel 20 to 30-flowered, 

 the pcMlicels 6 to 8 lines long: bracts 2 ; perianth segments white ■vnth broad pink 

 midveins, oblong-lanceolate, 5 to 7 lines long : filaments % as long as the seg- 

 ments, adnate b.v the lower V, and united by the dilated bases into a low but 

 distinct cup ; ovary cells with 2 low thin ridges confluent above and thus forming 

 a single curved obtuse crest. — (Scapns planus, unc. IV^-^ vel 4 altus, folia 1-2, 

 duplo alta: filamenta basi dilatata adnata breviter cupuliformia ; lobi ovarii 

 eristis singulis obtusis curvatis.) 



Gravelly soil, 5000 to 7000 feet : Modoc Co. 



Locs. — Jess Valley, E. H. Steffen 803 (type) ; Goose Lake Valley, S. M. Aujitin. 



A. NEVADENSE Wats. Bot. King, 351, pi. 38, figs. 1-3 (1871), type loc. Trinity Mts. to 

 the East Humboldt Mts., Nev,, is (ex, char,) very similar to A. modocense but the scapes are 

 terete and the reticulation of the bulb-coats rather minute and very much distorted. We have 

 seen no specimens from California, although it may be expected along the eastern boiuidary 

 north of Nevada Co. 



2f). A. falcifolium II. & A. (Fig. 47i.) Scape 2 to 3 or 4 inches high, con- 

 spicuously flatteiiid (1 to 3 lines broad) and 2-winged, at least above; bulb-coats 

 not reticulated ; leaves 3 to 5 lines broad : bracts 2, nearly or quite as long as the 

 flowers ; flowers rose-colored, the lanceolate segments acute and erect or atteiuuvte 

 and slightly spreading above, often very minutely glandular-serrate, 4 to 7 lines 

 long; stamens 14 to % the length of the segments ; ovary 3-lobed, the lobes creased 

 down the middle and produced above into narrow slightly toothed crests. 



Shallow soil on rock rifts or ledges: North Coast Ranges from Napa Co. to 

 Siskiyou Co., 1500 to 6500 feet. North to Oregon. 



