350 BOTANY. 



leaves broadly linear, 8-12' long, 3-8" wide; raceme elongated, 10-20- 

 flowered ; bracts longer than the pedicels ; flowers blue-purple, 6-10" long, 

 with linear-lanceolate sepals ; capsules oblong, 6-8" long, 5" broad, the cells 

 12-16-seeded. — Stouter than the eastern species, from which it differs in its 

 broader leaves, larger flowers, oblong capsules, and more numerous seeds. 

 Coatings of the bulb with numerous fascicles of acicular raphides, as in Ziga- 

 denus Nuttallii and paniculata. The genus appears sufficiently distinct from 

 Scilla, (as Dr. Torrey has already said,) in its several- veined and more 

 widely spread sepals and hypogynous stamens. Washington Territory to 

 California. Antelope Island in Salt Lake, and in the Wahsatch ; 4,500-6,000 

 feet altitude ; June. (1,178-) 



Allium validum. Stout, l-2j° high, leafy at base ; bulb with mem- 

 branous coats, oblong, crowning a thick rootstock ; leaves 3-5, nearly equal- 

 ing the scape, 3-7" broad, rather thick, flat ; spathe 2-3-valved, valves broadly 

 ovate, connate, acute ; umbel erect or somewhat nodding, crowded, many- 

 flowered, the pedicles 4-6" long; sepals 4" long, ovate-lanceolate, long- 

 acuminate, gibbous at base, white or pink ; stamens equaling the sepals and 

 shorter than the filiform entire style ; filaments dilated and adnate at base ; 

 capsule not crested; cells 2-seeded. — Near ^. cerwwwm, but much stouter, 

 umbels more erect and crowded, sepals longer and more acuminate, and 

 capsule not crested. It is 6248 Bolander, from Mono Pass, and was also col- 

 lected by Anderson near Carson City. East Humboldt and Clover Mountains, 

 Nevada; in high swampy ground ; 7-9,000 feet altitude; August, Septem- 

 ber. (1,179.) 



Allium brevistylum. Scape slender, l-lj° high, leafy at base ; bulb 

 with membranous coats, narrow-oblong, upon a thick rootstock; leaves 

 1-3" wide, long-hnear, somewhat shorter than the scape, thin and flat ; spathe 

 1-valved, obhquely connate-campanulate, acute ; umbel erect, few- (5-9-) 

 flowered; pedicels short (3-6";) sepals 4" long, bright rose-color, lighter 

 below, oblong-lanceolate, long-acuminate, gibbous at base; stigma more 



or less 3-lobed ; capsule somewhat 3-lobed, not crested ; cells 2-seeded. 



Found on the shaded banks of the Provo River in the Uintas ; 8,000 feet 

 altitude; July. (1,180.) 



Allium eeticulatum, Nutt. (?) Hook Fl. Bar. Amer. 2. 184, t. 195. 

 Bulb oblong, the outer coatings densely reticulate-fibrous; scape terete, 

 slender, 6-15' high ; leaves sheathing at the base, nearly equaling the scape, 



