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iere are very faint lines running nearly vertically with slight v 

 * h^n and witl^- crdss linos as if walls of the cells, which do not 

 ' ectly across, but the general outline of these so-called cells is 

 reward the tij>s' of some of the thinner scales there are very mar^ 

 jjid oblong cells appearing quite regular and vertically-oblong. A. atro- 

 lubens on ^ the contrary has thin bulb scales, all of. them, and the meshes 

 j>re well defined, and with relatively straight walls, and no tendency to- 

 ^lyard kinks.' It is a common plant of north central Nevada to the Utah 

 I tirie, and normally the biilbs are nearly :^'hite, and flowers normally al- 

 ,most^ black-purple, and" the bulbets are conspicuously ellipticar and 

 -elongated, while those of Inyonis are either spherical or ovate and not 

 "elongated. The floral segments of Inyonis are linear-lanceolate and 

 acuminate and about ^ inch long, and fully as long as the slender ped- 

 icels, white and with a purple strip down the centt^r rib, erect and not 

 spreading nor recurved. Crests central, linear and mostly entire and 

 erect and from }i mm. long, and slender. Bracts mostly 3. £uid broadly 

 ovate-triangular. Flowers 20-30. Seeds black, angular and appearing 

 papillose or cellular., and nearly 2 mm. long. No doubt this plant h 

 an ^ally to A. fimbriatum, and not allied to atrorubens, as is sho^\7i by 

 the peculiar bulb coats. It is still a problem to find Me]] m^t Ved dis- 

 tinctions between Allium fimbriatum and cri^tatum. Allium fimbriatum 

 seems to have the crests arise from the angles of the ovary and not the 

 style, but the free parts or tips are close" to the style. Our southern bot- 

 anists are unable to separate A.. Parishii from A. fimbriatum. 



Allium fibrillum Jones." This appears to be common imder coni- 

 ferae west of Currie's Nevada on the mountains adjomlntr Ruby valley. 

 The bulbs are elliptical, and split below or produce long vnderground 

 root stocks bearing one or more buiblets, often having a <mall bulblet 

 arise from the lower edgOi of the main bulb. The stems are filiform 

 and withi single filiform leaves 4-6 inches long and 1 mm. wule which 

 generally curl toward the tip. The bulb-coats are yellowish, flaky and -^ 

 thin, appearing as if rugose. The stem ha.^ but one leaf, but th^re are 

 others at the base, so that mature plants may semi to have two or mo^e 

 leaves. 



Allium praecox Brandegee? Norco, <on the northwest slopr of hill 

 in the brush, in sandy gravel. March 20, 1929. Plants rin!>le mostlv' 

 apparently not propagating by division, about 1 1.5 feet high, erect and 

 strict. Leaves lenticular in cross-section and often half an Jr<li wide 

 soft flabby, erect and tapering to tip and a little shorter tlian tlie scape' 

 Bulb depressed-globose, not over an inch wide, of very thin and gray 

 scales with the markings of peninsulare. Flowers 10-15. nommlly whit« 

 within, and on the outside purple-veined below, and usuallv witli a rather 

 broad stripe down the middle which fills the whole segment below Seg- 

 ments firm but not rigid, oblong-ovate, acutisli, opening so as to make 

 the flower campanulate, about 6 mm. long, all entire, a half longer than 

 the stamens. Crests conspicuous and spongy and tootlied rather wider 

 than the ovary, purple and fully 1 mm. high. Bracts of tie Inflorescence 



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