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capsule slightly crested before maturity, the cells 2-seede(i.— Closely allied 

 to A.falcifoliutn, which is readily distinguished by its broader gibbous-based 

 carinate and glandular sepals, the half-shorter stamens and style, and divided 

 stigma, (Plate XXXVI. Figs. 7 and 8. Flowers ; enlarged two diameters,) 

 and without marked reticulation in the bulb-coatings of the specimens ex- 

 amined. Near "Washoe and Carson Cities, Nevada, (Veatch, and 23 Ander- 

 son, mostly ;) now collected in the same region at Steamboat Springs and 

 near Glendale ; 4,500 feet altitude ; April, May. Plate XXXVI. Fig. 4. 

 Plant; natural size. Fig. 5. Flower ; enlarged two diameters. Fig. 6. 

 Reticulation of the bulb-coat ; enlarged thirty diameters. (1,186.) 



Allium teibeacteatum, Torr. Bulbs without rootstock, the coats with 

 a rather minute flattened or somewhat regular hexagonal reticulation ; scape 

 slender, 1-4' high, terete, naked ; leaves not sheathing, very narrowly linear, 

 J-1 J" wide, exceeding the scape ; spathe 2-3-valved ; pedicels (10-20) scarcely 

 equaling the flowers, spreading ; sepals 3-4" long, light-pink, oblong-lanceo- 

 late, acute, erect or recurved, exceeding the stamens ; capsule not crested, the 

 cells 1-2-seeded.— California. Antelope Island Peak, Salt Lake, and in the 

 Wahsatch ; 6-7,000 feet altitude ; June. Plate XXXVIII. Fig. 6. Flower ; 

 enlarged two diameters. Fig. 7. , Reticulation of the bulb-coat ; enlarged 

 thirty diameters. (1,187.) 



Var. (?) Andersoni. B alb-reticulation scarcely distinguishable ; bracts 

 always only two, broad and connate ; flowers turbinate at base ; sepals very 

 deep rose-color, oblong-lanceolate or broad-oblong, obtuse, erect. — Near Carson 

 City, (63 and 286 Anderson.) On Mount Davidson and in "Washoe Valley, 

 near Steamboat Springs, Nevada ; 5-7,000 feet altitude ; April, May. (1,188.) 



Beodi^a^ multifloea, Benth. Baker, I. c, p. 377. {B. parviflora, and 

 B. grandiflora, Var., brachypoda, Torr.) Bulb with the outer coatings fibrous, 

 1' or more in thickness ; scape 1-2° long, fragile; leaves 1-1 J° long, l|-2" 

 wide, fleshy-herbaceous, rather firm ; valves of the spathe Ar-Q" long, several, 

 broad-lanceolate ; umbel crowded, 6-20-flowered, the pedicels shorter than 



'BEODI^A, Smith. (Including Diohehstemma,Kth., Stropholirion, Torr., and Brevoortia, VfooA.) 

 Perianth funnelform or broadly tubular, the segments usually longer than the tube or about equaling it, 

 rarely shorter. Anthers 3, linear, sessile or nearly so on the throat of the tube, with or without wings. 

 Stamiuodia 3, flattened, membranous, in one row with the stamens. Ovary sessile or stipitate, the cells 

 4-<)-ovuled ; style straight, filiform ; stigma capitate. Capsule membranous, oblong-triangular, sessile or 

 stipitate, loculicidally 3-valved, the seeds 2-4 in each cell, small, triixuetrous. Testa black, membran- 

 ous. — Bulbous herbs with handsome umbellate flowers, several-valved spathes, and jointed pedicels. 

 J. G. Baebb, Bevis. of lAliac, Jour of Lin. Soc, 11. 375. 



The roots of this and the following genus are rather coated corms than tunicated bulbs. 

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