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> Gern globose, flattened, about 1.5 cm in 
diameter, the coats fibrous-reticulate, the outer dark; leaves several, 30-40 
cme long, 5-10 mn. wide, keeled, glabrous; scape erect, slender, 50-70 cm. 
tall; umbel commonly 8-15 flowered, the pedicels at length 2-6 cm. long; 
bracts several, lanceolate, veined, 1-1.5 cm. longs perianth 6, vein 
with blue, tubular-campanulate, rounded at the base, the tube 12-13 mn. long 
in flower, becoming 15 mme, the lobes spreading imeanthesis in two ranks, 
oval, l-veined, 8-9 mm. long, 4-6 mm. wide; stamens in two SOTLCSe the upper- 
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st shortly stipitate and decurrent on the inner se ermost 
nearly sessile at ine base of the outer se ts; anthers 1.5-2.5 m. long, 
blue; pistil 1-1.5 cm. long, the ovary oval, ig style and stipe subequal; 
capsule oval, 1.5 cm. long, invested by the wwllatedl, scarious corolla; _ 
seeds oval, 5 mm. long. (Brodiaea Douglasii = ; Hookera Douglassit- Piper), 
Rocky river and lake banks below 3000 ft., rarely in forested regions, 
First collected on the eae of the Columbia" by Lewis and later intro- 
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q@ duced into Jnglish horticulture by coll ip of David Douglase Albany Falls, 
Pend Oreille Ro, Sprague 108; Fish Lake Cr,, Epling and Kempf. 
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