very thick and very thin sc 

 raised and rectangular tran 

 much like those of A. obtu; 

 tiisum in the lower right ha 



It has the strong odor of leeks and grows in gravelly graniti 

 soil and among rocks at Victor, California, Mav 8. VJV^. ai 

 2900 feet elevation, in the Tropical Life Zone.' The thic< 

 scales are horny. It appears to belong to the anccps group 

 but differs from all its aUies. 



Allium hyahnum Curran seems to be much confused. 

 Specimens got for me by Mrs. Brandegee's suggestion at 

 Riverside, California, in April, 1905, show that the'sep.als are 

 oval, obtuse, 7-9 mm. long. 4-4 mm. wide, red-purplc-vcintMl, 

 white; stamens two-thirds as long as the sepals with fila- 

 ments gradually widened below; ovary crestless, becoming a 

 depressed and globose pod; pedicels stout, 2-4 cm. long; bulb- 

 lets occasional in inflorescence; bracts 2; rhombic-lanceolate, 

 i^cuminate. 1 inch long; flowers broadly to narrowly campanu- 

 late, nearly white to suffused with purple, about 25-30; leaves 

 2-3, flat, tapering to a long point, 2-4 lines wide, nearly as lf>ng 

 as the stems, 1 foot long; the roots propagate by division, olj- 

 late-spheroidal to ovate and the latter when young; stems 

 stout when fully developed, 18 inches long; with age the 

 F.owers close and are inclined to be contracted above the ovary 

 fresh bulbs are 1 inch wide and ^ inch high. 

 Allium reticulatum van playanum n. var. 

 This variety includes the forms growing on drv foothills 

 and plains, Pocatello, Idaho. Red Desert, ^^'yoming. an.l the 

 region south of the Uinta Mts., Utah. Thcv have rath<r 

 rigid and rather glaucous leaves longer than the scapes which 

 are 6-12 inches long; pedicels rather stout, 9-12 lints long; 

 flowers many; crests low and blunt as in the type species; se- 

 pals ovate-lanceolate, 3 lines long, not lax; bulbs about 2 inches 

 long. Lower Temperate Life Zone. 



Allium reticulatum var. deserticola Jones comprises the 

 forms with short scapes about 6 inches long and longer than 

 the leaves; large bulbs; long sepals and pedicels; very large 

 and acute crests often nearly half as long as the ovary, gener- 

 ally covering the entire top of the ovary as a spongy mass. 



