LILY FAMILY. 



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6, lanceolate to linear; perianth-segments 2 or 3 lines long; capsule 3 

 lines long, beaked by the short stout style. 



Low alkaline fields, from Elmira and Marin Co. to Monterey. 

 Flowers with a faint perfume. 



10. ALLIUM L. Wild Oxion. 

 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.) 



Scape terete, arising laterally from a corm which propagates hy hulb-hearing 

 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 % longer than the stamens 



2. A. unifolium. 



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. lacunomm. 



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

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

 Scape much flattened and 2-edged, lrom 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 ]A, longer than the stamens 



• 4. A. Breu-a i. 



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, hori- 

 zontal rootstock 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 \h in. long; flowers rose-color; segments 

 broadly oblong-lanceolate, 5 to 7 lines long, £ longer than the stamens 

 and styles. 



Coast Ranges: Mt. Diablo; Napa Mountains. May. 



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



