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LILIACEAE 



2. Calliprora scabra Greene. Sierra Calliprora. Fig. 980. 



Calliprora scabra Greene, Erythea 3: 126. 1895. 

 Brodiaea scabra Baker, Card. Chron. III. 20: 459. 1896. 



Corm round-ovoid, about 10 mm. in diameter, 

 seated 4-10 cm. Scape 20-40 cm. long, minutely 

 scabrous ; leaves 1-several, shorter than or exceed- 

 ing the scapes, 5-10 mm. wide ; bracts 10-15 mm. 

 long ; umbels 5-30-flowered ; pedicels 2-8 cm. 

 long ; perianth yellow with broad brownish purple 

 midveins, 12-18 mm. long ; tube turbinate, 3-4 mm. 

 long; segments spreading, oblong-lanceolate, 10-12 

 mm. long; filaments with winged appendages ex- 

 tending their whole length and produced at apex 

 into slender acute teeth often exceeding the 

 anthers; anthers creamy white, oval, 1.5 mm. long; 

 style 3-4 mm. long; capsule 6 mm. long; seeds 

 several in each cavity. 



Open hillsides of the Upper Sonoran and Transition 

 Zones; western slopes of the Sierra Nevada, Butte County, 

 to the Tehachapi Mountains, California. Type locality: 

 Placerville, California. 



Calliprora scabra analina Greene, Erythea 3: 126. 1895. (Calliprora analina Heller, Muhlenbergia 2: 14. 

 1905.) Distinguished from typical scabra by the blue anthers, and less scabrous herbage. Resembling^ u-;'ci/rf<?i- 

 in herbage, but clearly distinguished by the small oval anthers of the scabra type. Transition and Canadian 

 Zones; southern Oregon south through the Sierra Nevada to Tuolumne County, California. Type locality: 

 Middle Sierra Nevada, California. 



5. HESPEROSCORDUM Lindl. Bot. Reg". 15: under pi. 1293. 1829. 



Scapes erect, arising from a fibrous-coated corm. Leaves few, all basal, linear, thin and 

 flat. Flowers in an open bracteate umbel, white or lilac. Perianth-tube campanulate, the 

 segments equalling the tube, not spreading. Stamens 6, arranged in one row; filaments 

 scarcely dilated or usually deltoid-dilated and united at base ; anthers versatile. Capsule sub- 

 globose, stipitate, beaked by the persistent style; seeds several in each cell. [Greek meaning 

 western onion.] 



A genus of two species, native of western North America. Type species, Hesperoscordum hyacinthinum 

 Lindl. 



Filaments deltoid-dilated at base. 

 Filaments not dilated at base. 



1. H. Jiyacinthinum. 



2. H. lilacinnm. 



1. Hesperoscordum hyacinthinum Lindl. Wild Hyacinth. 



Fig. 981. 



Hesperoscordum hvacinthinum Lindl. Bot. Reg. IS: under pi. 



1293. 1829. 

 Hesperoscordum lacteum Lindl. Bot. Reg. 19: pi. 1659. 1833. 

 Hesperoscordon Icwisii Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 185. pi. 19i\. 



1839. 

 Veatchia crvstallina Kell. Proc. Calif. Acad. 2:11. 1859. 

 Allium tilingi Regel. Act. Hort. Petrop. III. 2: 124. 1875. 

 Brodiaea lactea S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. I4: 238. 1879. 

 Brodiaea hyacinthina Baker, Card. Chron. HI. 20: 459. 1896. 



Scapes 3-5 dm. high, sparsely scabrous or smooth. 

 Leaves usually 2, equalling or shorter than the 

 scapes, 6-12 mm. wide ; umbels open, few-many- 

 flowered ; bracts hyaline, narrowly lanceolate ; ped- 

 icels 2-4 cm. long; perianth open-campanulate, 10--1S 

 mm. long, cleft below the middle, white or lilac with 

 green midveins ; segments mostly oblong-ovate, 

 obtuse ; filaments equal, about 2 mm. long, deltoid at 

 base and slightly united ; anthers yellow or purple, 

 oblong, 1 mm. long ; capsule about 5 mm. in diameter. 



Moist heavy soil of the Upper Sonoran and Transition 

 Zones; British Columbia and Idaho south through the Pacific 

 States to San Luis Obispo and Tulare Counties, California. 

 Type locality: "native of the plains of the Missouri and of 

 the northwest of America." 



