W ATSON—Plants of Bernalillo County 
Fruit a berry; leaves cordate to lenceo- 
late, - - - (4). Vaanera. 
Floral bracts none or green. 
Perianth deciduous, - - (5). Catocortuvs. 
Perianth persistent, - - (6). Zya@apEnvs. 
1. Axium, LZ. (Onion. Garlic.) 
Strong-scented pungent, stemless, herbs, from a 
coated bulb; sepals and petals i1-nerved, distinct or 
united at base; 1-2 black seeds in each cell. 
Bulbs cespitose, crowning a rhizome, A. CERNUUM. 
Bulbs mostly solitary, no rhizome, leaves narrowly li 
near, flat or channeled 
Bulb coats more or less fibrous; several leaves, 
- - - - A. NUTTALLIL. 
Bulb coats not fibrous, the outer more or less re- 
ticulated, leaves 2 to 4. 
Perianth white with red mid-vein, 
- - - -A. SCAPOSUM. 
Perianth mostly rose-color, A. sTELLATUM. 
A.cernuuM, Roth. (Wild Onion.) Scape naked, 
angular, 6 to 24 in. high, nodding at apex, bearing a 
loose or drooping few or many-flowered umbel, leaves 
flat, linear, sharply keeled, 1 ft. long; sepals and petals 
oblong-ovate, rose-color, stamens and style exserted; 
pod 6 crested. Bear Canon. | 
A. Nurratii, Watson, Scape low, 4 to 6 in. high; 
bulb very fibrous; perianth segments acute or acumi- 
nate, rose-color to white. Sandia Mountains. 
A. scaposum, Benth. (Mesa Onion.) 1 ft. high or 
more; outer bulb-scales dark, with coarse rectilinear 
veining; umbels loose, rather few-flowered; perianth 
divisious lanceolate, acuminate 1-4 to 1-3 in. long, 
ovary not crested. Common on the mesa in spring. 
A. Strettatum, Fraser. 6 to 10 inches high, slen- 
der; umbel erect; outer coats of bulb reddish with l- 
near reticulations, which are very close; perinth seg- 
ments broad, acute; stamens and style exserted; ovary 
conspicuously 6-ersted. Rim Rock. July. 
Yucca, L. (Spanish Bayonet.) 
Stem woody, ours short, bearing the thick evergreen 
leaves; flowers in a racemose panicle, perianth whitish, 
campanulate. 
Fruit a berry-panicle, sessile, in mountains, 
. - : - Y. BACCATA. 
Fruit a capsule, panicle on a scape, - Y. @LAUCA. 
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