LILY FAMILY. 103 



9. ALLIUM L. Wild Onion. 

 Herbage with the characteristic taste and odor of onions. Scape from a 

 tunicated or sometimes rhizome-like bulb or from a corm, with radical leaves, 

 and bearing an umbel or head of flowers subtended by 2 or 3 thin whitish 

 or scarious bracts. Leaves narrow and plane, or convolute-filiform. Perianth 

 of 6 distinct or nearly distinct equal segments, campanulate or spreading. 

 Stamens inserted on the base of the segments; filaments often dilated below; 

 anthers versatile. Style filiform, persistent. Capsule obovate or globose, 

 obtusely 3-lobed, often crested; seeds 1 or 2 in each cell, black, wrinkled. 

 (Ancient Latin name of garlic.) 



A. Plants with conns. 



Scape terete, arising laterally from a corm which propagates by bulb-bearing offshoots. 



Scape 3 or 4 in. high (?); perianth-segments twice longer than the stamens 



1. A. bolanderi. 

 Scape 1 to 2 ft. high; perianth-segments ]/j longer than the stamens.. 2. A. unifolium. 



B. Plants with bulbs. 



Scape much flattened and two-edged, from a tunicated bulb; leaves 2, broadly linear, 

 falcate. 



Perianth-segments spreading at tip, nearly twice as long as the stamens 



3. A. falcifolium. 



Perianth-segments nearly erect, only Yz longer than the stamens 4. A. breweri. 



Scape terete, arising vertically from a tunicated bulb; leaves narrowly linear, several. 

 Perianth rose-color. 



Ovary-cells with an obscure thickened ridge on each side toward the summit; 



montane 5. A. lacunositm. 



Ovary-cells with 2 very narrow central crests; low hills 6. A. serratum. 



Perianth white or light pink; leaves convolute-filiform 7. A. attenuifolium. 



1. A. bolanderi Wats. Corms sometimes clustered, oblique, the coats with 

 an obscure delicate close undulate-serrate reticulation; scape lateral, very 

 slender; pedicels 10 to 17, slender, 5 to 10 lines long; bracts 2, 7 or 8 lines long, 

 ovate-lanceolate, acuminate; flowers rose-color or pinkish, the very narrowly 

 acuminate segments nearly straight, 4 or 5 lines long, twice longer than the 

 stamens and style; filaments filiform, adnate to the middle. 



Humboldt Co., first collected by Bolander. 



2. A. unifolium Kell. Corm deeply seated, bearing a short, horizontal root- 

 stock which gives rise to an erect scape; leaves 2 to 4, sheathing the scape below 

 the ground, flattish, 2 to 4 lines wide, shorter than the scape; bracts 2, large, 

 acuminate; umbels 10 to 30-flowered, the pedicels 1 to 1% in. long; flowers 

 rose-color; segments broadly oblong-lanceolate, 5 to 7 lines long, y ti longer 

 than the stamens and styles. 



Monterey Co.; Mt. Diablo; Napa Mts. ; Ukiah. The bulb was used as a food 

 by the Porno Indians. 



3. A. falcifolium H. & A. Bulb-coats not reticulated; scape 2 to 3 or 4 in. 

 high, 1 to 3 lines broad; leaves 3 to 5 lines broad; flowers rose-color, the 

 lanceolate segments attenuate and spreading above, very minutely glandular- 

 serrate, 4 to 7 lines long, nearly twice longer than the stamens and style; 

 capsule acute, with 3 short narrow central crests. 



Napa Mts. and northerly to Lake Co. 



4. A. breweri Wats. Bulbs large, 6 to 9 lines in diameter, the coats 

 without reticulation; scapes 1 or 2 in. high; leaves 3 to 5 lines broad; bracts 

 acute; pedicels 4 lines long; flowers deep rose-color, the lanceolate acute 

 segments nearly erect, 5 to (3 lines long, a third longer than the stamens; 

 ovary and capsule with a thick, slightly lobed crest upon each cell. 



