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slightly exceeding the stamens: the alternate filaments with a broad deltoid adnate 

 base. — Bot. King Exped. v. 351, pi. 37. In the Wasatch Mountains and 

 westward to the Sierra Nevada. 



» » * Bulb-coats not fibrous: leaf solitary, narrowly linear or filiform, equalling 

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

 6-crested: stamens and style included. 



12. A. Nevadense, Watson. Bulb-coats light-colored, with evident 

 close very much distorted reticulation : spathe-valves acuminate : leaf flat : 

 pedicels half-inch long : perianth white or pinkish ; segments lanceolate, little 

 exceeding the stamens and style. — Bot. King Exped. v. 351, 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, fiat and falcate, thick: scape stout, much com- 

 pressed and 2-winged, low and mostly shatter than the leaves. 



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 S. Idaho. 



2. NOTHOSCOEDUM, Kunth. 



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

 Bulb tunicated. 



1. N. striatum, Kunth. Bulb small, often bulbiferous at base : leaves a 

 line or two broad : scape a foot high or often much less : flowers few, on slen- 

 der pedicels ; capsule 2 lines long. — Allium striatum, J acq. From New Mexico 

 to Nebraska and eastward to Virginia and Florida. 



3. BEODIiEA, Smith. 



Scape erect, with linear leaves : flowers on jointed pedicels : brown-coated 

 corms small, J to £ inch in diameter or less. In ours the perianth is broadly 

 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 equalling the 

 lobes : anthers oblong; the lower on the throat opposite the outer segments, 

 the upper on the inner segments, on a short free filament which forms below 

 a prominent wing within the tube. — Bot. Calif, ii. 154. Milla grandiflora, 

 Baker. " Blue Cammas." From W. Wyoming and the Wasatch to Oregon 

 and Washington. 



4. ANDEOSTEPHIUM, Torr, 



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

 lobes. — Scape bearing a few-flowered umbel with unjointed pedicels : leaves 

 narrowly linear, channelled. 



