148 LILIACE^E. AUium. 



In the Sierra Nevada, from above Owen's Lake (Brewer) to Oregon (Nevius, Ciisick), in moist 

 places at an altitude of 7,000 to 11,000 feet or more ; also in the E. Humboldt Mountains, 

 Nevada (Watson) ; July to September. 



3. A. hcematochiton, Watson, 1. c. 227. Scape low, slender, 4 to 12 inches 

 high : coats of the narrow bulb deep reddish purple, shining : leaves flat and rather 

 thick, a line or two broad, about equalling the scape : bracts 2, short, connate : 

 umbel erect or somewhat nodding ; pedicels 10 to 20, a half-inch long or less : 

 flowers deep purple or rose-color, the ovate-lanceolate acute segments 3 or 4 lines 

 long, a little exceeding the very slender stamens and style : ovary truncate, with 

 very short rounded crests : capsule obcordate, 2 lines long. 



On sides of dry rocky hills near San Luis Obispo (Brewer) and near Ojai (Pcckfuim) ; April. 



3. Scape terete (rarely angled}, slender, from a small ovate or globose bulb 

 without rhizome: leaves narrowly linear: bulb-coats membranous, often 

 more or less distinctly reticulated: stamens included, except in n. 6. 



* Leaves 2 or more, shorter than or about equalling the scape (4 to 10 inches 



high or more). 



H- Ovary rather obscurely crested : perianth-segments (at least the inner ones) 



serrulate, bright rose-color. 



4. A. acuminatum, Hook. Outer bulb-coats with a distinct rather coarse and 

 prominent quadrate to hexagonal reticulation : scape 6 to 10 inches high, usually 

 exceeding the leaves which are a line broad or less : bracts narrowly acuminate : 

 pedicels (12 to 30) 6 to 12 lines long: flowers deep rose-color, the lanceolate seg- 

 ments 4 to 7 lines long, with acuminate recurved tips, rigid in fruit, a third longer 

 than the stamens : filaments slightly dilated below : crest very short, becoming ob- 

 solete. Fl. Bor.-Am. ii. 184, t. 196; Lindl. in Paxt. Fl. Gard. t. 25; Watson, 

 Bot. King Exp. 352, t. 37, fig. 6 (reticulation). A. Murrayanum, Hort. Edinb. ; 

 Regel, Gartenfl. 1874, t. 770. A. Elwesii, Eegel, PI. Nov. fasc. 5.50? 



From Washington Territory to N. California and eastward to N. Utah, but rarely collected 

 within our limits. It is reported from Cape Mendocino (Douglas), and specimens from the Nacis- 

 mento River (Brewer, n. 555) appear to belong here. 



5. A. Bolanderi, Watson. Eesembling the last : bulbs (or rather coated 

 corms) sometimes clustered, oblique, the coats with an obscure delicate close undu- 

 late-serrate reticulation: scape lateral, very slender: pedicels 5 to 15, slender, 4 to 

 9 lines long : flowers rose-color or pinkish, the very narrowly acuminate segments 

 nearly straight, 4 or 5 lines long, twice longer than the stamens and style : filaments 

 filiform, adnate to the middle. Proc. Anier. Acad. xiv. 229. 



Humboldt County, on the Eureka trail (Bolander, n. 6556 ; Rattan) ; also by Kellogg <, Har- 

 ford (n. 1011), probably in the same region. The species is peculiar in often sending off one or 

 two secondary bulbs from the base of the stem, which take root at the distal end and send up a 

 scape from the same point. 



H -i- Ovary distinctly 6-crested (obscurely so in n. 10) : perianth-segments not 



serrulate. 



*+ Scapes rather tall: flowers numerous ; perianth white or light-pink, becoming 



thin and lax. 



6. A. Sanbornii, Wood. Scape slender, a foot or two high, from a white ovate 

 bulb : reticulation minute and very irregular : umbel erect or nodding, subtended 

 by 4 lanceolate acuminate bracts : pedicels 3 to 6 lines long : flowers light rose- 

 color, small, the ovate-lanceolate segments 2| or 3 lines long, shorter than the 

 stamens and style : capsule very thin. Proc. Philad. Acad. 1868, 171 ; Watson, 

 Bot. King Exp. 486, t. 37, fig. 7 (flower). 



In the Sierra Nevada from Yuba County to the Yosemite. 



