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slightly exceeding the stamens: the alternate filaments with a hrotid deltoid adnote 

 base. — Bot. King Exped. v. 351, pi. 37. In the \Va.sauh .MuunUiinw and 

 westward to the Sierra Nevada. 



« « * Bulb-coats not Jibrous: leaf solitan/, narronl if linear or jiliform, eipuiUing 

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

 &-crested : stamens and style includtd. 



12. A. Nevadense, Watson. linlh-coats light-folorcd, with evident 



close very niiuh distorted reticulation : spatiie-valves acuminate : leaf flat : 

 pedicels half-inch long: periantli white or pinkish; segnicnts lanceolat<\ little 

 exceeding the stamens and style. — IJot. King Kxped. v. 3.'>1, pi. 38. From 

 the Wasatch Mountains to the Sierra Nevada. 



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

 tion: leaves 2, broadly linear, fat and filiate, thick: srape stout, mwh com- 

 pressed and 2-icinged, low and mostly shorter than the leates. 



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 

 Wasatch Mountains to 8. Idaho. 



2. WOTHOSCORDUM, Kunth. 



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

 Bulb tunicated. 



L N. striatum, Kimth. Bulb small, often bulbiferous at ba.se : leaves a 

 line or two broad : sca])e a foot high or often mucli less : flowers few, on slen- 

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

 to Nebraska and eastward to Virginia and Florida. 



3. BRODIiEA, Smith. 



Scape erect, with linear leaves: Howers on jointed pedicels: bmwn-<'or»tod 

 corms small, h to ^ inch in diameter or less. In ours tlie periaTith is l>roadl_T 

 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 e<{ualliiig the 

 lobes: anthers oblong ; the lower on tlie throat opjmsite the outer segment,*, 

 the upper on the inner setrments, on a short free (ilament which fornjs l>elow 

 a jjroniinont wing within the tul)e. — Bot. Calif, ii l.')4. Milla grandifora. 

 Baker. " Blue Cammas." From W. Wyoming and tli.- \V;is:itch to Oregon 

 and Washington. 



4. ANDROSTEPHIUM, Torr. 



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

 lobes. — Scape bearing a few-flowered umbel with uujoiuted |>edicclt : Icatoc 

 narrowlv linear, channelled. 



