Liliaceae 43 



Allium Stem 1-2 feet high from a nar- 



sibericumL. rowly ovoid bulb, with a single, 

 Northern elongated, round, hollow, basal 

 leaf and i or 2 similar leaves on 

 the stem. Flowers numerous in a compact 

 round head; the sepals and petals about J 

 an inch long, slender, with a tapering tip, 

 bright rose-purple with a darker midvein: 

 stamens much shorter than the perianth 

 segments. 



Not infrequent in moist open places 

 throughout the Rockies; flowering in July. 



Stem 1 2-1 8 inches high, rather 

 Lilmm 



montanum. stout, from a depressed globose 

 A. Nelson bulb an inch in diameter. Leaves 



alternate except the uppermost 

 Lily. 



which are in a whorl of 5-7, dark 



green above, paler beneath, minutely rough- 

 ened on the edges, lanceolate, tapering but 

 slightly toward the sessile base. Flowers 

 erect usually one, but sometimes several, on 

 a stem; sepals and petals 2j inches long, 

 somewhat spreading, elliptic-oblong, tapering 



