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LILIACEAE. 



ALLIUM L. Sp. PI. 294 (1753). 



Allium mutabile Michx. Fl Bor. Am. i : 195 (1803). 



In rich stony limestone soil along Bear Creek, Kerr county, altitude 

 1900 feet. Scape rather stout, flowers white. 



April 30 (1684). 

 Allium Nuttallii S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 14: 227 (1879). 



Abundant in stony limestone ground about Kerrville, usually near 

 bushes, altitude 1600-1800 feet. Found at the lowest elevations along 

 the Guadalupe and on hillsides. Flowers rose color. 



April 26 (1659). 



NOTHOSCORDUM Kunth, Enum. 4:' 457 (1843). 



Nothoscordum ornithogaloides (Walt.) Kunth, 4: 460 (1843). 

 Allium ornithogaloides-VfaXt. Fl. Car. 121 (1788). 

 Allium striatum Jacq. Coll. Suppl. 51 (1796). 

 Nothoscordttm strialum Kunth, Enum. 4: 459 (1843). 

 Common, but scattered, in low dry ground at Corpus Christi and sur- 

 rounding country. Seen also at Kerrville. 

 March 10 (1397); type locality, Carolina. 



YUCCAL.Sp. PI. 319(1753). 



Yucca glauca stricta (Sims) Trelease, Fourth Ann. Rep. Mo. Bot. 

 Card. 206 (1893). 



Yucca stricta Sims, Bot. Mag. /. 2222 (1821). 



Yucca angustifolia var. mollis Engelm. Trans. St. Louis Acad. 3 : 



50 (1873)- 



At two stations near Kerrville, on Town Creek, altitude 1650 feet. 

 A low plant 15 inches to 3 feet high; leaves short, sparingly filament- 

 ous; scape rather densely flowered; flowers greenish white, tinged 

 slightly with dull purple, especially on the outside. It had all the ap- 

 pearance of an introduced plant, growing only in cultivated fields. 



May 3 (1689) : type locality, Carolina. 

 Yucca rupicola Scheele, Linnsea, 23: 143 (1850). 



On stony limestone hilltops near Kerrville, not common, altitude 1900 

 feet. The flowers on all the plants noticed were pure white, not green- 

 ish-white. Not seen in fruit. 



May 21 (1775) ; type locality, New Braunfels, 



