JUNCACEAE. 
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2. Juncoides comosum (Meyer) Sheld. ( Luzula comosa Meyer.) In wet 
meadows from Mont, to Alaska, Colo, and Cal.—Alt. about 8500 ft.—Crystal 
Park. 
3. Juncoides intermedium (Thuill.) Rydb. ( Lnzula campestris Am. auth.) 
In woodlands and meadows from Newf. to B. C., Colo, and Calif.—Alt 
8500-10,000 ft.—North Park; Chambers’ Lake; Middle Park. ! 
4. Juncoides subcapitatum Rydb. Along mountain streams, near the tim¬ 
ber line. Found only at the type locality.—Silver Plume. 
5. Juncoides spicatum (L.) Kuntze. ( Luzula spicata Desv.) On hillsides 
and in mountain meadows from Greenl. to B. C., N. H. and Calif.—Alt. 
10,000-13,000 ft.—Cameron Pass; Pagosa Peak; La Plata Mountains; Pike’s 
Peak; West Spanish Peak; Seven Lakes; Mt. Harvard; Mt. Garfield; Gray’s 
Peak. 
Family 26. ALLIACEAE Batch. Onion Family. 
1. ALLIUM L. Onion, Garlic, Leek, Chives. 
I. Bulb crowning a persistent rootstock. 
Leaves terete and hollow. 1. A. sibiricum. 
Leaves flat or channeled, not hollow. 
Umbels not nodding; petals and sepals long-acuminate. 
2. A. brevistylum. 
3. A. recurvatam. 
4. A. neo-mexicanum. 
5. A. cernunm. 
6. A. rubrmn. 
7. A. Nuttallii. 
Umbels nodding; petals and sepals obtuse or acute. 
Leaves rounded-convex on the back, not keeled. 
Leaves almost flat and keeled. 
Umbels few-flowered; leaves 1-2 mm. wide. 
Umbels many-flowered; leaves 3-5 mm. wide. 
II. Bulbs without rootstock. 
Outer bulb coat fibrous. 
Umbels bulblet-bearing. 
Umbels not bulblet-bearing. 
Capsule not crested; involucre usually 3-leaved. 
Capsule more or less crested. 
Bracts broadly ovate in anthesis, not reflexed ; flowers white or light-rose.; 
several layers of the bulb-coat fibrous. 
Petals and sepals over 1 cm. long; peduncles often 2 or 3 from the 
loose sheaths ; bracts 3. 8. A. macropetalum. 
Petals and sepals less than 1 cm. long; peduncles single from the 
close sheaths; bracts usually 2. 
Plant 3-6 dm. high; pedicels 12-15 mm. long; petals and sepals 6-8 
mm. long. 9. A. Geyeri. 
Plant 1-3 dm. high; pedicels 8-12 mm. long; petals and sepals about 
5 mm. long. 10. A. reticulatum. 
Bracts lanceolate, usually 3, soon reflexed; only the outer bulb-coat 
fibrous; flowers red-purple. 11. A. Pikeanum. 
Outer bulb-coat not fibrous, but often more or less reticulated. 
Petals long-acuminate, serrulate. 12. A. acuminatum. 
Petals acute, not serrulate. 13. A. Brandegei. 
1. Allium sibiricum L. (A. Schoenoprasum Am. auth., mostly; not L.) 
In dry places from Me. to Alaska, N. Y., Colo, and Oreg. —Alt. 5000-8500 
ft.—Upper Laramie River; Northern State line. 
2. Allium brevistylum S. Wats. In wet woodlands from Mont, to Colo, 
and Utah.—Alt. 6500-9000 ft.—Canon of the Cache la Poudre; North Park, 
near Teller; North Platte, near Hebron; Cerro Summit, near Chambers 
Lake; forks of Poudre and Big South. 
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