33 CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY 
“Allium acuminatum chile oe! ave in the hills near San Simon 
Ariz, a locality quite out of r 
Allium heuastochiton Wate was said to have a rhizoma, 
and hag been a puzzle ever since, but an examination of the type 
— reveals no rootstock. It seems probable that Watson mee a one 
because of so many scales, but there is none. This throws Du- 
vidson’s Mar vini nto synonymy. The name, a poorly coviiteastal 
isabsent, bat the many coats are not connected a rootstock, 
Allium Bigelovii Watson has the oblong meshes rat the bulb 
coats rather vviique at the eads and arranged in many lines, sad 
the walls are raised much after the fashion of acuminatum, form- 
ing deep pits. ‘fue vertical lines of the wom are obscurely sin- 
uous, ‘fae buid coats are firm and n t flabby. In the dry 
Specimens the crests are very thin and sbanirdiat, 4 mm. high or 
more wud uot spongy. ‘Tne leaves are mostly two, but sometimes 
vuly o Noue are enlarged upward, but they overtop the inflo- 
lescence | Lt propagates by bulbiets produced from the lower cor- 
vers of the mutuer bulbs, and not by stolons. 
Aulium stellatam Ker. = out of place in ve revision for it 
bulbs with Jong neck peculiar to tie eernuum en and the ver- 
cally linear ciuse-set meshes of it. The a ned are not fis- 
tuluus uor hooked, aud the leaves are grass-lik four and 
nearly as long as the peduncles, The pink flowers are’ Nery broad and 
open and abut 4 mm. long, with’ the broadly ovate segments 
spreading and barely as long a3 the stamens ora little shorter. 
‘he crests of the ovary are on the corners and not close tothe 
style, aud are triangular and spongy and about half as high as the 
pod is tong’ The pedicels are capillary and lax. and about an 
inch long and many. ‘This group is allied to the hematochiton- 
validum one 
Allium glandulosum link & Otto was got by Mrs. Mexia at. 
Cuarnavaca,4600 ft. alt. no 2726, in open woods of pines and oaks, 
the usual cernuum habitat. Plants tall and with the same scales 
und 2-4 leaves, Bracts small. Peduncles enlarged at base. Flow- 
ers 4 mm. long, with Sarit parts’ linear spreading, black- - 
purple. Ovary with low and central crests. Pedicels an inch 
long, filiform, not 'reflexed. “Bulbs ovate,’ aboiit'n an inch long, di-_ 
viding by splitting, and producing bracted’ rhizomes 2 mm. thick, ; 
with bulbs at the ends, _Sligaths 2 4 inches ae “ 
