FLOWERING PLANTS AND FERNS OF ARIZONA 189 



1. Anthericum torreyi Baker, Linn. Soc. London Jour. Bot. 15: 318. 



1876. 

 Apache and Coconino Counties south to Cochise, Santa Cruz, and 

 Pima Counties, 6,000 to 9,000 feet, commonly in pine woods, August. 

 New Mexico, Arizona, and southward. 



4. EREMOCRINUM 



Roots tuberous-thickened; stems scapose, not more than 30 cm. 

 long; leaves long and narrow; flowers few, in a short, rather dense 

 raceme; perianth whitish with green veins, the segments separate or 

 nearly so; anthers becoming strongly incurved; fruit a dehiscent 

 capsule. 



1. Eremocrinum albomarginatum M. E. Jones, Zoe 4: 53. 1893. 



North of Kayenta, Navajo County {Peebles and Fulton 11950), west 

 of Carrizo, Apache County {Peebles and Smith 13578), 5,000 to 5,500 

 feet, June. Southern Utah and northern Arizona. 



The starlily or sandlily, Leucocrinum montanum Nutt., is to be looked for in 

 northern Arizona. It is readily distinguishable from Eremocrinum by having the 

 peduncles originating underground and the perianth segments united below into 

 a long tube. 



5. HESPEROCALLIS. Desertlily 



Roots often slightly thickened and coated with sand; flowering 

 stems from a large tunicate bulb, with few large, undulate-margined 

 leaves; flowers large, in a scarious-bracted raceme; perianth segments 

 whitish with a green central stripe, 5 to 6 cm. long, united at base; 

 fruit a dehiscent capsule. 



1. Hesperocallis undulata A. Gray, Amer. Acad. Arts and Sci. Proc. 



7: 39. 1868. 



Western part of Maricopa and Pima Counties, and in Mohave and 

 Yuma Counties, mostly below 2,000 feet, in sandy soil of deserts, 

 March to April. Southwestern Arizona and southeastern California, 

 probably in northwestern Sonora. 



The bulbs are eaten by the Indians of southwestern Arizona. This 

 is one of the showiest of the Arizona desert wildflowers. 



6. ALLIUM. 21 Onion 



Flowering stems scapose, from a tunicate bulb, this sometimes borne 

 on a short rootstock; leaves sheathing, usually narrowly linear; flowers 

 regular, perfect, in a terminal simple umbel; perianth more or less per- 

 sistent, rose purple to nearly white, the segments separate or nearly 

 so; ovary more or less completely 3-celled, often crested; ovules 2 in 

 each cell (in the Arizona species). 



Such important culinary herbs as onion, garlic, leek, and chives 

 belong to this genus. The bulbs of the Arizona native species were 

 formerly much utilized by the Indians for food and seasoning, being 

 consumed raw or after healing in ashes. Sometimes they were stored 

 for use in winter. 



21 The writers are indebted to C. V. Morton, of the Smithsonian (institution, Tor the prh ilege of examin- 

 ing his notes on the western North American species. 



