147.- Allium bristly longitudinally striate Red-stroke creeping, stem striduous very dense a scape 12-18 high, leaves and radical, shortly 1-2" wide, rather shorter than the scape; bract usually single, very broad, abruptly acuminate with lanceolate (5-9) flowers - rays short (3-6") - Pedals gibbous, lanceolate and long acuminate (5" long) - stamens about half the length of the petals, about half their length, exceeding the style. Rhizome subterranean, capsule oblong with 2-3 seeds. July 1, 1869 - Prov. cat.- shade, in brth - 8,000 jis. 104. 148.- Allium (comm.) var. ?a) Scape (2" high) a red-stroke creeping, leaves about ½" broad + nearly equally the scape, acuminate, with terminal sheaths - often several bladeless sheaths at base, simple acuminate angles or margins. Umbels erect, densely flowered - bracts 2-3 broad & connate, rays short (1-6" long) - petals with lanceolate, long acuminate - shortly clawed filaments which on an adnate stem at the base, style long exserted. Capsule not crushed - Rhizoma subterraneum. Aug. 27, 1869 - E. H. M. - Swampy bank in catin. abon. Outh. Bat. 300p. 3g Sept. 10" - Clive's wood, shade, catin. Aug. 21" - E. H. M.- Dry, catin. abon. Outh. Bank 7,000 1. All the a. cinnamomeum in Hub. Gray from King^, Sart^, in N.Y., S. Platte, Penn., Ohio, -67, 4+4+, 350 Par., Mr. Chitilly (Lyon), Roubidoux Pass (Cincinnati) have been oddly head of flowers, especially on the acuminate, broad over acute, narrow leaves, usually (apparently) from a single stalk - more likely A. stellatum which shows no sign of a red-stroke nor slender, + still narrower leaves. - Ktt presented both or just having withholds. 149.- A. strumulatim, ?- Doubtful mostly butternut - The few flowers White. It may be doubted whether it is distinct from A. rithian Johnson - at least a. for as afar in Hub. Gray p. 1 July 20, 1869, Kimball's Meadow Aug. 30, 1869, River bottom of Evanston 257 24