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Allium Heller! Small. (A. Nuttalii Wats.) Wild Onion. Garlic. 



Abundant in open ground. One of our conspicuous spring wild 

 flowers, with beautiful pink or sometimes white flowers. Stems usu- 

 ally 1—2 dm. tall. 



Dry prairies of the west central states. 



Allium microscordion Small. Wild Onion. 

 2—4 dm. tall. Pink. 

 Southern states. 



Allium mutabile. Wild Onion. 



Open ground along railroad tracks and where the soil is deep. 

 2—5 dm. tall. White (or pink). 



Soutsern states. 



Androstephium coeruleum Greene. (A. violaceum Torr.) 



In open ground along railroad tracks and on dry banks. The 



large blue flowers have the filaments of their stamens united into a 



tube attached to the pehianth. Not abundant. 

 A prairie plant occurring from Kansas to Texas. 



Nothoscordium bivalve Britton. (N. striatum Kunth.) Crow-poison. 

 False Garlic. 



Common everywhere about Austin. One of our early wild flowers. 

 Very similar to a wild onion, but without the onion odor. 



Southeastern and central states and Mexico. 



LILIACEAE Lily Family 



Quamasia hyacinthifolia Britton. (Camassia Fraseri Torr.) Wild 

 Hyacinth. 



Abundant along railroad tracks and in other open ground where 

 the soil is deep. An elongated cluster of blue or white flowers. 

 One of our conspicuous spring wild flowers. 



Central and southern states. 



DRACAENACEAE Yucca Family (Under Liliaceae) 



Nolina Lindheimeriana S. Wats. Slender Bear Grass. 



Rocky bluffs of the Edwards Plateau. Somewhat like a Yucca, 

 but with much more grass-like leaves. 



A characteristic plant of the dry rocky regions of West Texas 

 and New Mexico. 

 Nolina texana Wats. (Not given in Small.*) Slender Bear Grass. 



Very common on the rocky bluffs of the Edwards Plateau. Sim- 

 ilar to the preceding. 



Characteristic of the dry hills of West Texas. 



* Small's Flora of the Southeastern United States. Published and 

 for sale by J. K. Small, Bronx Park, New York City, New York. 



