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LILIACEAE 



3. Muilla coronata Greene. 

 Crowned Muilla. Fig-. 976. 



Muithi coronata Greene, Pittonia 1: 165. 1888. 



Corm 12-20 mm. in diameter, usuall}- 2-3 cm. 

 under the ground. Leaves 2 or 3, semi-terete, twice 

 the length of the scapes, retrorsely scabrous on the 

 margins ; scapes very slender, 5-10 cm. high ; um- 

 bels 2-4-bracted, 3-10-flowered ; perianth rotate, its 

 segments 3 or 4 mm. long, green on the outer sur- 

 face, pale blue or whitish within ; filaments con- 

 spicuously dilated, hyaline, petaloid. their broad 

 margins overlapping, obtuse to deeply retuse at 

 summit ; anthers yellow. 



A little known species of the Mojave Desert, originally 

 collected at Lancaster, Los Angeles County. 



3. BLOOMERIA Kell. Proc. Calif. Acad. 2: 11. 1863. 



Scape from a fibrous coated corm, with linear carinate basal leaves and many yellow 

 flowers in a terminal umbel, subtended by membranous bracts. Pedicels jointed at the sum- 

 mit. Perianth persistent, of 6 nearly equal distinct linear-oblong somewhat spreading seg- 

 iuents. Stamens 6, inserted oit the base of the segments and a little shorter ; filaments fili- 

 form with a somewhat cup-shaped winged and often bicuspidate appendage surrounding the 

 base ; anthers oblong, attached near the base but versatile. Ovules several in each cell ; style 

 filiform-clavate, persistent and splitting with the capsule. Capsule subglobose, membranous, 

 obtusely 3-lobed, loculicidally dehiscent. Seeds subovoid. angular and wrinkled, black. 

 [Name in honor of H. G. Bloomer, a pioneer Cahfornia botanist.] 

 A California genus of 2 species. Type species, Bloomeria aurca Kell. 



Leaf solitary, 6-12 mm. wide; filament-appendages papillose, bicuspidate at apex. 1. B. crocea. 



Leaves several, about 2 mm. wide; appendages of the filaments smooth, obtuse at apex. 2. B. ctevclandi. 



1. Bloomeria crocea (Torr. ) Coville. Coninion Golden Stars. 



Fig. 



977. 



Allium crocea Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 218. 1859. 



Bloomeria aurea Kell. Proc. Calif. Acad. 2: 11. 1859. 



Nothosconlum aureum Hook. f. Bot. Mag. 27: />/. 5896. 

 ■ 1871. 



Bulb about 15 cm. in diameter, becoming 

 densely covered with brownish fibers ; scape 

 scabrous, 2-5 dm. high ; leaf solitary, equalling or 

 exceeding the scape, 6-12 mm. broad ; bracts nar- 

 rowly lanceolate ; pedicels numerous, 3-6 cm. 

 long; perianth nearly rotate in bloom; segments 

 8-12 mm. long ; appendages about 2 mm. long, 

 bicuspidate, minutely papillose ; style about 5 mm. 

 long, much longer than the ovary ; capsule about 

 5 mm. long. 



Coast Ranges from Monterey County to San Diego and 

 northern Lower California, also on the Channel Islands. 

 Lower Sonoran to Transition Zones. Type locality: "sum- 

 mit of the mountains east of San Diego, California." 



