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11. A. bisceptrum "Wats. Scapes often stout, commonly in pairs (or 3s or 

 4s) , but frequently solitary, 5 or 10 to 14 inches high ; bulb-coats light-colored 

 with indistinct reticulation ; flowers few to many, rose-colored ; perianth-segments 

 3 to 4 lines long, unequal, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, exceeding the stamens, 

 the inner more narrow, their bases hidden by the broad outer ones; filaments 

 with unequal deltoid bases, those opposite the inner perianth-segments with bases 

 expanded and adnate, the alternate ones with mainly free bases; ovary crests 2 

 or 3 to each lobe, very thin, conspicuous, sometimes much toothed. 



East of the Sierra Nevada crest (from Tulare Co. to Placer Co. and north to 

 Modoc Co.), also local on the west slope, and very local in the high inner Coast 

 Ranges ; San Bernardino Mts. Also in Nevada. 



Locs. Alta Mdws., Tulare Co., K. Brandegee; Hazel Green, Jepson; Merced Big Trees, 

 Jepson; Andrews Camp, Inyo Co., K. Brandegee; Walker Lake, Mono Co., Jepson 4448; Ken- 

 nedy Lake, Tuolumne Co., A. L. Grant 256; mts. of e. Placer Co., Sonne; New Pine Creek, 

 Warner Mts., L. S. Smith; South Yolo Bolly, Jepson; Frazier Mt., Ventura Co., Hall 6607; 

 San Bernardino Mts., ace. Parish (PL World, 20:208). 



Eefs. ALLIUM BISCEPTRUM Wats. Bot. King, 351, pi. 37, figs. 1-3 (figure of the flower 

 faulty as respects the base of the filaments), (1871), based on spms. from Downieville, 

 Bigelow, Carson City, Anderson 288, Washoe Valley, Stretch 89. 



12. A. sanbornii "Wood. (Fig. 47c.) Scape 10 to 14 inches high; outer 

 bulb-coats light-colored, reticulation vertical, minutely white dotted or undu- 

 lated rectangular; pedicels 3 to 8 lines long, perianth-segments white or pinkish 

 (thin and lax in fruit), 2% to 3 lines long, the outer broadly ovate-lanceolate, 

 the inner narrower; stamens and style % the length of the segments ("exserted" 

 in the type) ; filaments opposite inner segments with adnate bases l 1 /^ to 2 times 

 the height of the others ; capsule thin-walled, 6-crested, the crests oblong or some- 

 times lanceolate, conspicuous. 



Sierra Nevada from Yuba Co. to Mariposa Co., 1500 to 4000 feet ; Santa Lucia 

 Mts. Rare. 



Locs. The type of this species we have not seen, but the following specimens, representing 

 a distinctive natural unit, evidently belong here : Sierra Nevada : Brush Creek, Butte Co., 

 K. Conger; Italian Bar, Tuolumne Co., Jepson 6375; Bluett's Pt., Tuolumne Co., A. L. 

 Grant 709; Devil's Gulch, Mariposa Co., Congdon. Coast Ranges: Cold Spr., Big Sur Eiver, 

 Jepson 2594. 



Var. congdonii Jepson n. var. Perianth-segments elliptic-acuminate, very thin, erose ; outer 

 bulb-coat with vertical reticulation, not undulated. (Segmenta perianthii elliptieo-acuminata 

 tenuissima erosa; tunica bulbi exterior ad perpendiculum retieulata non undulata.) Mariposa 

 Co. (Benton Mills Eoad, Congdon, type; Josephine Mine, Congdon}. 



Eefs. ALLIUM SANBORNII Wood, Proc. Acad. Phila. 20:171 (1868), type loe. Foster's Bar, 

 N. Fork Yuba Eiver, S. S. Sanbom; Wats. Bot. King, 486, pi. 37, fig. 7 (1871), Proc. Am. 

 Acad. 14:229 (1879). Var. CONGDONII Jepson. 



13. A. tribracteatum Torr. Scape rising above the ground only 14 to 2,y 2 

 inches, generally slender, channeled and more or less distinctly 4-angled, 2 angles 

 often more prominent ; bulb-coats white with minute more or less distinct oblong 

 to hexagonal reticulation ; bracts usually 3, short-obovate, acuminate ; leaves 1 

 or 2, linear-lanceolate, 1% to 5 times as high as the scape; perianth-segments 2 

 to 4 lines long, narrowly ovate, acuminate to obtuse, silver-white to pinkish with 

 brown or purple midnerve ; filaments % to almost as long as the segments ; ovary 

 strongly and angularly 3-lobed, its crests varying from prominent to obscure or 

 none, usually consisting of 2 rounded ridges, with a longitudinal channel between 

 them. 



Granite sand, Sierra Nevada, 8000 to 9500 feet, from Lassen Peak south to 

 Kern Co. 



Loes. Pah lite Peak, Purpus 5333 ; Macomb Eidge, Yosemite Park, Jepson 4558 ; Tuolumne 

 Mdws., Jepson 4474; Conness Creek, Tuolumne Eiver, Jepson 3361; Sunrise Trail to Lake 

 Merced, Jepson 3166 (bracts 2); Hull's Mdw., Tuolumne Co., A. L. Grant 1229. Passes into 



