LILIACER. 115 
¢. Stemless: leaves a pair, broad; flowers umbellate on an underground peduncle: ped- 
icels 3-cornered prostrate and curved in fruit: stamens 3: styles 3, divergent.... 23 
f. Stem with 3 broad leaves at top and a single flower: outer segments green....... 24 
§ 3. Bracts greenish or scarious: flowers in a simple raceme or panicle: segments dis- 
tinct, persistent: anthers small: styles or sessile stigmas persistent; capsule deeply 
3-lobed. 
a. Stem tall, leafy: leaves large ovate to lanceolate, nerved, plicate: panicles large. 25 
6. Stem from a coated bulb, leafy at base: leaves linear or grass-like, smooth. 
Flowers white, erect: yellow glands at base of segments,..........---eeerceeeeces 26 
Flowers yellowish or purplish, nodding glandless...........ccccscecssccceeccccecs 27 
¢. Stem equitant-leafy, from a rootstock: leaves slender; anthers 2-celled, introrse. 
Flowers small, greenish, each with a cup-like or 3-lobed involucre..........+-+ eeee. 28 
Flowers yellowish-green: filaments woolly; style none.........scecserececececeeee 29 
d, Stem with a large tuft of grass-like stiff leaves from a rootstock: raceme of white 
flowers very dense, long: anthers extrorse: styles reflexed or coiled............ 30 
1. ALLIUM, Linnéus. 
$1. Bulbs connected with rootstocks: leaves 2 or more: capsule not conspicuously 
crested. 
Scape round, 1-2 ft. high, exceeding the leaves: bracts 2, large, acuminate: bulb white.. 1 
Scape flattened above: umbels often nodding: stamens and style slender; bracts united » 
base ....... aia aie Unio to's itera sae ie tote ois aleranerexarevahava rare ia isinlete 6:6 /aSoio aleiaG ile (ele Siete seis siete 2, 3 
§ 2. Bulbs without pootstoakas scape not flattened, slender: leaves very slender. 
a. Leaves 2 or more, shorter than, or scarcely exceeding the scape. 
Ovary obscurely crested: perianth rose: stamena included: scape 3-10 in. high... 4, 5, 6 
Ovary distinctly 6-crested. 
Perianth-segments white or light pink becoming thin and lax.* 
Bracts 2, short, acute; stamens included..............eccseee is areia ae etelaiereye 89 
Perianth rose-color: filaments deltoid-widened at base......... aeieece 10, 11 
Filaments filiform crests conspicOUS ....... 0.2000 csececnccccsccvces 12, 13 
8. Leaves 2 or more, much exceeding the very short scape............ eae 14, 15 
§ 3. Scape much flattened, 2-edged, short: leaves 2, linear, flat, faleate: flowers rose- 
color. 
Bracts 2; stamens included.............--c0ee S.ceionis See seis ea swe ee ewes 16, 17, 18 
Bracts 3-5: stamens not included: leaves 4-1 in. broad........ cc ececceescecee cece 19 
1. A. unifolium, Kell. Leaves 2-4: segments 5-7 lines long exceeding stamens. 
2, A. validum, Wats. Scape 1-3 ft. high: bracts 2-4, broad: pedicels 3-4 in. long: 
segments slender 3-4 lines long: bulb-coats white, Alpine, July to Sept. 
3. A heematochiton, Wats. Scape slender, 4-12 in. high: bracts 2, short: flowers 
deep purple or rose-color: bulb-coats deep reddish purple, shining. S. Cal Coast. 
