192 MISC. PUBLICATION 4 2 3, U. S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 



7. Allium bigelovii S. Wats, in King, Geol. Expl. 40th Par. 5: 487. 



1871. 

 Coconino and Yavapai Counties, from the north rim of the Grand 

 Canyon to Ash Fork, 5,000 to 8,000 feet, June to July. New Mexico 

 and Arizona. 



8. Allium palmeri S. Wats, in King, Geol. Expl. 40th Par. 5: 487. 



1871. 



Apache, Navajo, and Coconino Counties south to Pima County, 

 4,000 to 7,500 feet, often in pine forests, May to July. Southern 

 Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona. 



Apparently much more common in Arizona than the related A. 

 bigelovii. 



9. Allium kunthii Don, Wern. Nat. Hist. Soc. Mem. 6: 82. 1827. 



Allium scaposum Benth., PL Hartw. 26. 1840. 



Gila, Pinal, Cochise, and Pima Counties, 3,000 to 5,000 feet, April 

 to May and again August to September. Western Texas to Arizona, 

 south to Central America. 



Flowers cream-colored, fading pink. 



10. Allium cristatum S. Wats., Amer. Acad. Arts and Sci. Proc. 



14: 232. 1879. 

 Grand Canyon, Coconino County (Lemmon in 1884), Chemehuevi, 

 Mohave County, 3,800 feet (Jones in 1903), April to June. Utah and 

 Arizona to southern California. 



11. Allium nevadense S. Wats, in King, Geol. Expl. 40th Par. 5: 351. 



1871. 

 Known in Arizona only by a collection made probably near Kanab, 

 Utah (Mrs. Thompson in 1872). Utah, Nevada, northern Arizona, 

 and eastern California. 



7. NOTHOSCORDUM 



Very similar to Allium, differing chiefly in having more than 2 

 ovules in each cell of the ovary and in the absence of onionlike odor. 



1. Nothoscordum texanum M. E. Jones, Contrib. West. Bot. 17: 21. 



1930. 



Gila, Pinal, Cochise, Santa Cruz, and Pima Counties, 4,000 to 6,000 

 feet, growing in the open on hillsides and plains in shallow hard 

 gravelly soil, April to May. Western Texas and southern Arizona, 

 probably also in southwestern New Mexico and northern Mexico. 



The type (Jones in 1930) was collected in Cochise County, Ariz., near 

 Rodeo, N. Mex. The flowers are yellowish white, tinged with purple 

 externally, and are somewhat fragrant. 



8. BRODIAEA 



Flowering stems from tunicate bulbs, scapose; leaves all basal, 

 narrow, grasslike; flowers in umbels subtended by scarious bracts; 

 perianth segments united below into a funnelform tube; filaments 

 separate; fruit a dehiscent capsule. 



The Arizona species are excluded from the genus Brodiaea as defined 

 by Hoover. 22 



22 Hoover, Robert F. a definition of the genus brodiaea. Torrey Bot. Club Bui. 66: 161-166. 



