06 California Trees and Flowers. 



A. Shawii Engelmann. One of the most striking and orna^ 

 mental species of the genus, prized for its compact dark green 

 leaves. 



A. Parryi Engelmann. Native of Arizona, as also the follow- 

 ing species. 



A. Palmeri Engelmann. 



A. Schotti Engelmann. 



ALFILARIA. 



Erodium cicutarium and E. moschatum are about equally well 

 known by the name Alfilaria, and are valuable forage plants. 

 The foliage is finely divided like a fern leaf.and the rose-purple* 

 flowers are half an inch across. The two generally grow together 

 so that the seed is generally mixed. A considerable demand has 

 sprung up, and Alfilaria is being extensively sown in arid local- 

 ities fcr forage 



ALLIUM 



A large genus, including the onion of the vegetable garden. 

 Some of the wild forms native to California are very pretty, but 

 mostly with small, flowers and worthless for cutting. Inter- 

 esting garden plants. 



A. acuminatum Hook. Usually a low plant, six inches high, 

 with a good sized umbel of pretty rose-purple flowers. 



A. cusicki Watson. A dwarf vernal form, with white flowers 

 commonly tinged with purple. 



A falcifolium Hook & Am. Flowers rose colored. 



A fimbriatum Watson. A pretty plant, abundant in the 

 mountains of Southern and Lower California, bordering the Col- 

 orado Desert. It sends up a stout scape a few inches high, — 

 rarely more than three inches — bearing twenty-five or thirty 

 flowers of a deep rose purple*, sometimes of a light shade. Its 

 Mexican name is Lavina. 



A. haematochiton Watson. A small species, six or eight 

 inches high, bearing an umbel of six to twelve small white 

 flowers with greenish stripes and a reddish brown centre. It is a 

 tender plant. 



A, serratum Watson. A showy little plant, about ten inches 

 high, with a naked stem and a many-flowered umbel of dark, 

 bright rose-purple* flowers half an inch wide. 



A. unifolium Kell. A unique little species, with white to 

 rose-purple flowers. Three inches to a foot high. 



antirrhinum. 



A. Orcuttianum Gray. A tall, slender annual, with, long 

 spikes of either white or violet flowers, discovered in 1882. Per- 

 haps the prettiest of the wild Snapdragons of California 



