280 LIUACEAE 



Loes. — Conn Valley, Napa Co., Jepson 6250; Pope Valley, Saidee Wallace; Middletown 

 grade, ne. of Mt. St. Helena, Jepson; Buck Mt., Tracij 4164; Yreka, Butler 1167. 



Var. demissum Jepson n. var. Plants small, 1 to 2 inches high; leaves 2, greatly exceeding 

 the scape; bracts 2; pedicels 3 to 6 lines long; flowers small, 3 lines long, deep red purple. — 

 (Pumila, une. 1-2 alta; folia 2; flores parvi, lin. 3 longi, atro-purpurei. ) — High montane, 

 loose rocky soil, 6000 to 8000 feet, w. Siskiyou Co. : Devil 's Backbone, Jepson 2069 ; Marble 

 Mt., Jepson 2830 (type). 



Kefs. — Allium p.vlcifolium H. & A. Bot. Beech. 400 (1841), type from Cal., Douglas; 

 Wats. Bot. King, 488, pi. 36, figs. 7, 8 (1871); Jepson, PI. W. Midi Cal. 119 (1901). Var. 

 DEMISSUM Jepson. 



27. A. breweri Wats. Very close to A. faleifolium but smaller; scape not 

 2-winged ; leaves two, 2 to 5 lines broad; bracts 2, little exceeding the pedicels; 

 nmbel compact, the pedicels 4 to 7 lines long; perianth light rose color, its seg- 

 ments 5 to 6 lines long, mostly erect ; stamens % as long as the segments ; ovary 

 crests consisting of a curved ridge, the apex of the crest or curved ridge short 

 and entire or obscurely emarginate. 



Mountain summits of the Mt. Diablo, Mt. Hamilton and Santa Cruz ranges, 

 3500-4.500 feet. 



Loes. — Mt. Diablo, Congdon ; Mt. Hamilton, Pendleton 889 ; Santa Cruz Mts., C. F. Balcer 

 539. 



Refs. — Allium breweri Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 14:233 (1879), type loe. Mt. Diablo, Brewer 

 1060. A. falcifolium var. bretveri Jones, Contrib. 10:83 (1902). The distinctions implied by 

 Watson (Bot. Cal. 2:151) between A. breweri and A. falcifolium do not hold. There is no 

 definite distinction as to stamen length and A. breweri may have glandular-serrulate perianth- 

 segments (Brewer 1060) as well as A. falcifolium. Nevertheless we retain the two as species 

 on other grounds. 



14. MUILLA Wats. 

 Like Allium, but the herbage without the taste or odor of onions. Scape 

 from a tibro-membranoiis coated conn and bearing an umbel subtended by 3 

 acuminate scarious bracts, which are distinct even in the bud, or slightly connate 

 and overlapping at the base ; pedicels not jointed at the summit, but subtended 

 by small unei|ual membranous bractlets. Leaves very narrow, flat to terete. 

 Flowers greenish or yellowish-white. Perianth sub-rotate, persistent, of 6 nearly 

 equal segments ; segments slightly united at base, oblong, with a dark 2-nerved 

 mid-rib (alternate segments occasionally 3-nerved). Stamens inserted near the 

 base. Ovules 8 to 10 in each cell ; style clavate, persistent and at length splitting. 

 Capsule globose, scarcely lobed, loculicidal. Seeds compressed and angled. — 

 Species 4, California, Nevada and Mexico. (Anagram of Allium.) 



Filaments filiform or subulate. 



Perianth without glands _ 1. M. maritima. 



Inner perianth-segments with pit-like glands 2. if. serotina. 



Filaments greatly dilated, retuse at apex 3. M, ooronata. 



1. M. maritima Wats. (Fig. 48a.) Scapes 3 to 9 (or 12) inches high, 

 generally equal to or a little taller than the narrowly linear almost terete leaves; 

 umbel 4 to 12-flowered; pedicels imequal, 14 to 1 inch long: perianth-segments 

 2 to 3 lines long, acute to obtuse, the inner generally wider, with broad thickened 

 brownish midnerve and thin greenish-white margins ; filaments filiform to sub- 

 ulate ; anthers yellow or lurid purple. 



Alkaline fields, Sacramento Valley and Marin Co. to Southern California. 



Loes. — Vacaville, Jepson 1196, 8218; Stege, Davy 6527; Mission Hills, San Francisco, 

 Bioletti; Crystal Springs Lake, San Mateo Co., C. F. Baker 423; Alviso, Bioletti; San Martin, 

 Chandler 921; Hemet Valley, Hall 1138; Escondido, Alice Kinq : La Mesa, Jepson 6677. 



Refs.— MnLL.v maritima Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 14:235 (1879); Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 

 118 (1901). Hcsperoscordium{?) maritimum Torr. Pac. R. Rep. 4:148 (1857), type loe. 

 Pt. Reyes, Bigelow. Bloomerui maritima McBr. Contrib. Gray Herb. 56:8 (1918). 



MuiLLA TKANSMONTANA Greene, Pitt. 1:73 (1887), type loe. Reno, Ncv. Bloomeria trans- 

 montana McBr. Contrib. Gray Herb. 66:8 (1918). Scape fusiform-enlarged at the ground; 

 perianth white. 



