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slightly exceeding the stamens: the alternate filaments with a broad deltoid adnate 

 base. Bot. King Exped. v. 351, pi. 37. In the Wahsatch Mountains and 

 westward to the Sierra Nevada. 



# # * Bulb-coats not fibrous: leaf solitary, narrowly linear or filiform, equalling 

 or somewhat exceeding the low scape (1 to 3 inches): capsule prominently 

 ^-crested: stamens and style included. 



12. A. Nevadense, Watson. Bulb-coats light-colored, with evident 

 close very much distorted reticulation : spathe-valves acuminate : leaf flat : 

 pedicels half-inch long : perianth white or pinkish ; segments lanceolate, little 

 exceeding the stamens and style. Bot. King Exped. v. 351, pi. 38. From 

 the Wahsatch Mountains to the Sierra Nevada. 



3. Bulbs ovate, not rhizomatous, the membranous coats mostly without reticula- 

 tion : leaves 2, broadly linear, fiat and falcate, thick : scape stout, much com- 

 pressed and 2-winged, low and mostly shorter than the leaves. 



13. A. Tolmiei, Baker. Scape 2 to 4 inches high: spathe 2-valved: 

 flowers light rose-color with a darker midvein; segments lanceolate, acute, 

 gibbous at base, a half longer than the stamens : ovary very obscurely crested. 

 A. tribracteatum, Watson in Bot. King Exped. v. 353, in part. From the 

 Wahsatch Mountains to S. Idaho. 



2. NOTHOSCORDUM, Kunth. 



Like Allium. Capsule oblong-obovate ; cells several-ovuled. Bracts 2. 

 Bulb tunicated. 



1. N. striatum, Kunth. Bulb small, often bulbiferous at base : leaves a 

 line or two broad : scape a foot high or often much less : flowers few, on slen- 

 der pedicels : capsule 2 lines long. Allium striatum, Jacq. From New Mexico 

 to Nebraska and eastward to Virginia and Florida. 



3. BRODI^A, Smith. 



Scape erect, with linear leaves : flowers on jointed pedicels : brown-coated 

 corms small, ^ to inch in diameter or less. In ours the perianth is broadly 

 tubular and the flowers subcapitate. 



1 . B. Douglasii, Watson. Scape smooth, a foot or two high, erect and 

 usually stout : leaves carinate : perianth-tube subsaccate, about equalling the 

 lobes : anthers oblong ; the lower on the throat opposite the outer segments, 

 the upper on the inner segments, on a short free filament which forms below 

 u prominent wing within the tube. Bot. Calif, ii. 154. Milla grandifiora, 

 Baker. " Blue Gammas." From W. Wyoming and the Wahsatch to Oregon 

 and Washington Territory. 



4. ANDROSTEPHIUM, Torr. 



Perianth 6-cleft, the cylindric tube nearly equalling or shorter than the 

 lobes. Scape bearing a few-flowered umbel with uu jointed pedicels : leaves 

 narrowly linear, channelled. 



