CATALOGUE. 35I 



very narrowly linear ; spathe 2-3-valved ; umbel 16-30-flowered, the spread- 

 ing pedicels 6-8" long ; sepals white or pinkish, ovate-acuminate, a third 

 longer than the stamens, gibbous at base; style entire, equaling the stamens; 

 capsule subglobose, the cells double-crested, 2-ovuled.— The specimens, some- 

 what doubtfully placed here, are peculiar in having the umbels almost wholly 

 bulbiferous, but the few flowers have the characters of the species. Bear 

 River Valley near Evanston, and Parley's Park in the Wahsatch ; 6,000 feet 

 altitude; July. (1,181.) 



Allium biscepteum. Bulb not crowning a perennial rootstock, often 

 bulbiferous, the reticulation of the coatings minute and very sinuous; scapes 

 (1-3) often in pairs, rather slender, 6-12' high, leafy at base; leaves 2-4, 

 linear, 2-6" wide, usually equaling or often much exceeding the scape, flat, 

 entire and sheathing toward the base ; spathe 2-valved, valves very broadly 

 ovate, abruptly setaceous-acuminate, but slightly connate ; umbels many- 

 (20-40-) flowered, rays 6-10" long, occasionally bulbiferous; sepals white or 

 rose-color, 4" long, ovate-lanceolate, more or less acuminate, gibbous at base, 

 the inner a little narrower ; stamens a third shorter than the sepals, equaling 

 the entire style, the dilated base of the filaments wholly adnate ; capsule sub- 

 globose, 3-lobed, the lobes strongly crested ; cells 1-2-seeded. — This is A. 

 falcifolium, Var. ?, of Whipple's Eeport, collected by Bigelow at Downieville, 

 California, 288 Anderson from near Carson City, and 89 Stretch from Washoe 

 Valley, Nevada. On stream banks in the mountains, from the Trinity to the 

 East Humboldt Ranges, Nevada, and in the Wahsatch ; 6-7,500 feet altitude; 

 May-July. "Pat-is^' of the Pah-Utes. Plate XXXVII. Fig. 1. Plant; 

 natural size. Fig. 2. Flower ; enlarged two diameters. Fig. 3. Reticula- 

 tion of the bulb-coat ; enlarged thirty diameters. (1,182.) 



Allium Nevadense. Bulb without rootstock, the reticulation rather 

 minute, very much distorted ; scape low (2-4',) terete, with a single aversely 

 compressed leaf, 1" wide, sheathing at the surface of the ground, exceeding 

 the scape ; spathe of two broad slightly connate acute or often acuminate 

 valves; pedicels 10-30, spreading, 3-7" long ; sepals 4-5" long, white or 

 pinkish, oblong-lanceolate, acute, gibbous at base, subsjpreading ; stamens a 

 little shorter or subequaling the sepals, scarcely exceeding the entire style, 

 the filaments adnate at the slightly dilated base ; capsule globose, the cells 

 strongly 2-crested, 2-seeded. — Dry foot-hills and ridges from the Trinity to 

 the East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada ; 5-7,000 feet altitude ; May-July. 



