CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY NO. 16 



with the bulbs two inches of this underground. The leaves are at least J4 

 inch wide and thin but concave as in bisceptrum, but hardly half as wide as 

 that species. In drying they seem filiform but they are not. The crests are 

 not rightly drawn in Watson's figure. They are double and flaring. The 

 bulbs are globose-ovate and strongly apiculate, and from the base send out 

 long and filiform underground stems or runners ending in bulblets. The 

 bulbs are white as in bisceptrum and ]/ 2 to ft inch wide. The outer coat 

 is a dirty light-1 : : • 1 '- ro: -h rcti. uhted with the lateral lines either 

 straight or slightl) crinkled, and the vertical lines double knnkled the 

 meshes being approximately rectangular. Beneath the strong coat of the 

 bulb comes a thin one or two with obscure rectangular markings, and then 

 a forming reticulated coat. The outer bulb coats peel off easily and leave 

 the white bulbs exposed. The plants grow either exposed or in the stiatie 

 of the junipers. The bulbs do not have innumerable coats as most bulbs 



The bulbs 'of A. bisceptrum produce many bulblets around the base of 

 the mother bulb and seldom have any long rootlets (underground stems 

 with bulbs on the ends, but each bulblet is attached to the mother by a 

 thread. The figure in King's report, that is the whole plant figured there 

 is the var. Diehlii and not a part of the real type from *«S^ The 

 var. Dielhlii is ' species and the Sierra fora 



from it. But as Watson makes the Sierra form the type of his species vvc 

 have to put Duhl -a rht : It is a qu, ; tion whether we should put 

 Palmeri L an e - which ]t real J>' 1S ' f netlc f"> " 



Allium acun in r, < Pmf ( o t. , ; ,i Pn vo ,, Ltah, sends me this spe- 

 cies from Mt Delenbaugh on the rim of the Grand Canon 



• AlliumPJ , abundant yon he west- 



ern slopes of the Snipers and pinions. It has the : same 



^ ^ ^^Z^tnl^^t^rf^ purple. Plants 



high. 



Sileri Eng. in Cont. 





:e that he doubted i: 



, t0 work and 

 calling ii I'tahia bee au-e they thought it was gath- 

 ..; .j il(r ,i R . n ,.,] tV j )e locality, is in Arizona. From 

 ice.i*{ there i* nod in- i > st irate the species from 

 but thev say the flowers are yellowish. The only 

 been to have nmor.-d the mv« u-.- till they had some 

 ut their method was to erect a genus on 

 sited the 



every little technical difference, the Rydbergian style. I have visiU-d the 

 hJu.Uh. *«5^ »nH have hunted for the species but never yet found any 



tvpe locality twice and have hunted for the species but never yet found any 

 r -. 1„j - w «« tri~u\ Hen Tohnson of Salt Lake City, an enthusi- 



1894 was common on the 

 id valley. In recent years it 

 St. George and the Indian 



^.e of it~,"and so has my friend Ben Johnson of Salt Lake ( 

 pl ants - . .„. 



Sophora stenophylla Gray. This plant m 1894 

 grade going up from M. (hor.Lv. I iah, to Diam™<i ■ 



