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* * Stems from a short or creeping rootstock : fruit a reddish lobed berry : seeds 



pendulous. 



15. Streptopus. Flowers apparently axillary, greenish-white or purplish. Anthers 



sagittate, cuspidate, on short deltoid on subulate filaments. Leaves clasping. 



16. Prosartes. Flowers in fascicles (1 to 6-flowered) terminating the branches, white or 



greenish. Anthers oblong, obtuse, on slender filaments. Leaves with reticulated 

 veinlets. 



III. Like the last, but perianth persistent with nerved segments, styles distinct, and cap- 

 sule septicidal (loculicidal in Xerophyllum). 



* Flowers usually polygamous : anthers 1-celled, peltate on opening : stems leafy : leaves 



not rigid nor equitant. 



17. Veratrum. Stem tall and stout, from a thick rootstock. Inflorescence paniculate, 



pubescent. Leaves broad, strongly nerved and plicate. 



18. Zygadenus. Stem from a coated bulb. Inflorescence a raceme or subpaniculate, 



glabrous ; perianth-segments glandular at base. Leaves linear. 



* * Flowers dioacious, on naked pedicels, in a simple elongated raceme : stem very leafy : 



leaves thin, oblanceolate. 



11 Chamrelirium. Flowers white : segments narrowly linear-spatulate, equalling the 

 stamens, which are shorter and abortive in the pistillate flowers. Seeds margined, 

 and \vinged at each end. 



* * * Flowers perfect, on bracteolate pedicels, in a simple raceme : anthers 2-celled, in- 



trorse : seeds numerous : stem leafy : leaves equitant 



20. Tofieldia. Flowers involucrate with 3 scarious united bractlets. Styles short 



Seeds appeudaged. 



* * * * Flowers perfect, on naked pedicels, in a simple dense raceme: styles reflexed: 



seeds few : stem very leafy : leaves very narrow, rigid and rough-edged. 



21. Xerophyllum. Flowers white, on long pedicels ; segments 5 to 7-nerved. Seeds 



not appendaged. 



1. ALLIUM, L. ONIOW. 



Perianth-segments 1-nerved, usually somewhat spreading. Ovules 2 at the 

 base of each cell. Capsule often crested. Seeds obovoid and wrinkled. 



1. Bulbs cespitose, narrowly oblong and crowning a more or less persistent rhi- 



zon.e: spathe mostly 2-valved: leaves several, linear: scape terete. 



* Leaves terete, hollow. 



1. A. SchCBnoprasum, L. Scape stout: umbel subcapitate : flowers 

 rose-color ; segments 4 or 5 lines long, acuminate : stamens included : capsule 

 not crested. From Canada and the Great Lakes to the Wind River Moun- 

 tains of Wyoming, Oregon, and Alaska. 



* * Leaves fiat or channelled. 



2. A. cernuum, Roth. Scape slender, to 2 feet high, from a bulb: 

 leaves 1 to 4 lines wide : umbel open, nodding : flowers numerous, on very slender 

 pedicels, rose-colored or white ; segments 2 or 3 lines long, broad and acutish : 

 stamens and style exserted : capsule crested. From New Mexico to Oregon, 

 British Columbia, and the Alleghany Mountains. 



3. A. brevistylum, Watson. Scape 1 to l feet high, from a stout rhi- 

 zome : leaves 2 to 4 lines wide: spathe 1-valved : umbel erect, few- flowered ; 

 pedicels 6 to 12 lines long: flowers deep rose-color; segments 4 to 5 lines long, 

 narrow, long-acuminate, nearly twice longer than the stamens and style: capsule 

 not crested. Bot. King Exped. v. 350. N. W. Wyoming to S. Utah. 



