30 CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY 
several and very long and narrow. The bulb coats are brownish 
without and mostly deep-red within. The stems are 5-10 inches 
high and erect. 
Allium Parryi grows abundantly on wash land where the rains 
have washed the clay down to the more level gravelly soil, and 
below where the other onion abounds, The leaves are single to 
each stem, and arcuate, The stems incline to be ascending and 
rarely are over 4 inches high. The flowers are about 8 mm, long, 
and whitish andopen. The balbs are nearly spherical, and ra- 
ther reddish. The outer perianth segments are reddish-striped 
and triangular-acute and somewhat outcurved. The pedicels are 
Allium amplectens is well marked by the slightly exserted 
stamens and the pure white and globose flowers. The bulbs are 
serratum in my revision, Greene’s species as # rule are spurious, 
and his characters visionary. 1 found it growing on a sea-cliff at 
and single and seemignly not propagating by runn rhizomes 
Since the type locality ‘etlacana i pales 
ers, rh . 
ce the type rd slopes‘* near the Mission bills 
of San Francisco my plants from a remote region may not be typ- 
ical, Greene says there is a remarkable difference in the floral 
segments, which I do not find in mine, 
p 220 discredits the perianth story by saying the segments are al- 
ither writer mentions the bulb scales, 
ut Jepson says the two bracts are united high up and pedicels are 
stout. Neither do they speak of the flowers being a very deep-red- 
purple like serratum and acuminatum, and of the rigid segments. 
The crests seem to be central. The meshes of the bulb coats are 
