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LILIACE.E. 



ALLIUM. 



A. dichlamydeum, Green Leaves few, shorter than the scape, which is about a 

 foot high: perianth deep rose color 5 lines long, outer segment spreading, inner erect, 

 entire: ovary crested. Resembling A. serratum, which has smaller flowers with serru- 

 late segments. 



A. crispum, Greene. Scape 5-8 inches high, thickened upward: spathe 1-valved 

 pedicels 12-25, 1 inch long: perianth light purple, 3-4 lines long, the outer segments 

 oblong-ovate plane, entire, the inner lanceolate, the margins undulate: ovary not crested. 

 Near A. serratum. Paso Robles. 



A. monospermum, Jepson. Size and habit of A. attenuif olium, but 3 or 4 scapes 

 from the red bulb: pedicels 50-80: perianth pale purple: filaments with broadly deltoid 



united bases; pod maturing but one seed. Vac- 

 Mts. 



BBODI2RA. 



Prof. Green has again elaborated this genus and 

 its allies, but we shall retain the names of his first 

 revision. In Bay-Reg Bot. Dichelostemma re- 

 places Brodiaea and Brevoortia is added, becom- 

 ing D. Ida-Maia, while B. volubis becomes D 

 Californicum. The other species retain the old specific 



names with the final 

 ostexnma is neuter. 



a" changed to "urn, "since Dichel- 



Brodicea capitata. 



Hookera terrestris. 



HOOKERA. 



H. leptandra, Greene. Scape slender, a foot or less high: 

 umbel 2-flowered: perianth purple, an inch long; segments 

 linear, spreading above free portion of the filaments 3 lines 



long: anthers linear, 3 lines long; staminodia 



thin, involute, retuse. 



TRITELEIA. 



The yellow flowered species of this genus ap- 

 pear in Bay-Reg. Bot, under the generie name 

 Caliprora, and the white flowered /me is Hes- 

 peroscordum. 



T. Henderson!, Watson. Near T. Bridges!!. 

 Scape and leaves about a foot long: leaves 3-5 

 lines broad: perianth salmon-color with brown- 

 purple nerves, 6-9 lines long, the segments about 



