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co picnously arcuate, much more so than in Jepson’s figure of 
peninsulare, and about the same as my no. 41 of attenuifolium, 
ike that, very irregular. There is no sign of serration on the 
mavgins of the segments. The bulbs are smail, rarely half an 
inch wide and spherical and with gray coats, The plants grow in 
dense masses £0 a8 to color the hillsides red and are 6-12 inches 
high with flat and rather narrow leaves. Growing with it are 
Brodiws, Geutiana and Godetia. : 
Allium Parishii Watson was very poorly described and its type 
locality inaccurate as Cushenbury spring. It does grow far above. 
the spring in the alpine regions, and is the same us monticola of 
Davidson, and which I fully described in Cont.15 p 52. Varish 
was responsible for the confusion. 
jn 1931 I had an exceptional chance to observe Texas onions 
the roadgides and waste places were white with them for many 
‘miles, the plants are as a rule 6-12 inches high and erect und with 
leng and grass-like leaves to a stalk or peduncle, The bases 
of the leaves are enlarged and sheath-like and usually ribbed ard 
vvertop the peduncles. This applies to the mutabile group, the- 
most eommen one, reticulatum belongs in this group but is con- 
spicuously crested and the perianth elongated and dries bluish- 
The roots of all the species but scaposum propagate by 
division of the mother-bulb by the production of a bulblet arisirg 
from the lower edge just above the roots, which grow duwnware 
aud make the parent bulb appear oblique till the bulblet splits off. 
The bulbletsalso develop from below the sheathing scales and 
sre white, while the mother scales are mostly chestnut-colored, 
The distinctions of Small in his southern states flora do not seem 
to hold out, His Helleri certainly is Nuttallii. His Cuthbertii 
seems to be reticulatum, anh arenicola and microscordium are 
hopeless. Mutabile aud Nuttallii seem separable on the texture 
of the flowers, but their color is worthless, Nuttallii is mostly white 
at low elevations, and pink elsewhere, mutabile is mostly white. 
aud with a more robust habit and the lax perianth and very fi- 
gravelly and sandy slopes on the edge of the live oaks on the north 
side of the Davis mts. The type locality was at Alpimeon the 
southern side. The flowers are often ting ed with red. 
