54 CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOT-\NY NO. IS 



ALLIUM 



Jepf^on's treatment of this genus in his manual shows all me ma 

 of being done with a lick and a promise. 



Allirrn validnm Watson is named the Swamp Onion. Whoever g 

 it that name probably never saw it growing for it never grows in swam 

 but along nlpine and subalpine ri\^lets along bedrock where there 

 always running water. 



All aim fimbriatum Watson. Jepson. p. 218 gives the bulb coats 

 this species as having particularly distinct rectangular bulb-coat ma 



o 



same as xn A. Parrj' 



it. One thing is certain about fliis species and that is that the ma 

 ing:> are not rectangular and not distinct, and not in any way related 



A. Parr\'i. 



and 



jacent mountains on the east slope at low ele\'ations. The most con- 



and 



dark red. 



thick 



that no mnrkin^s are discernible at all, in fact no one knowsi 



what they really 



character 



ptrum. A. bisceptrura prod 



tinct from the parent bulb, somewhat after the fashion of Fritillaria 

 judica, e?ch bulblet however close it may be to the parent bulb seems 

 distinct, 1 ut the main bulb at times mav divide bv snlittini? and form- 



formed around 

 connected with 



though this is very rare. Buft 



hite and with very thin and h 

 : rarely forms new bulbs, and 

 and lower edee downward, bu 



Allium fim- 



cuou 



ly different, being very thick and opaque and red, and bulbs 

 nearly pVhose while those of bisceptrum are inclined to be ovate. The 

 1 -aves of fimbriatum are always single, while they are two or more 

 in bisceptrum. The leaves of both species are thick and fleshy and tri- 

 quetrous. 



Jepson keeps up Allium campanulatum on the flimsiest of grounds. 



bisceptni: 



di'stinguish 



Allium haematochiton Watson. Smiley in his Flora of the Sierra 

 Nevada page 138 throws doubt on the accuracy of my statement that 



;pecies grows at Soda Springs (Jones, Allium P. 8). I 

 ned the specimens on which this statement is based, and 



re- 



rimed to believe that bmiley U right, and that this species^ is found onh 

 in tfie Tropical Hfe zone, and that my specimens belong to another 

 species, A. validum? 



^ Allium^ Piersonii Jepson is antedated by A. monticola Davidson 

 Neither wnter seems to ever have seen the specimens of this specie 

 growing. It has been persistently referred to ^e falcifolitum group becauV 

 of Its great and hooked flat leaf, overtopping ^ the stems.- But the methc 



