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LILIACEAE 



2. Triteleia bicolor (Suksdorf) Abranis. 

 Bicolored Triteleia. Fig. 984. 



Brodiaea bicolor Suksdorf, West. Am. Sci. 14: 2. 1902. 

 Hookera bicolor Piper, Contr. Nat. Herb. 11: 190. 1906. 



Leaves several, carinate. about two-thirds the 

 length of the scape, 5-10 mm. wide. Scape stout, 

 erect, 40-70 cm. long ; umbels at length open, few- 

 many-flowered ; pedicels stout, erect. 5-20 mm. long; 

 perianth with a blue tube and whitish or pale lobes, 

 15-25 mm. long, tube broadly tubular, subsaccate, the 

 lobes about half the length of the tube, broadly ovate ; 

 stamens 6, the outer on the throat, subsessile. the 

 very short tilament forming a wing on the throat, the 

 inner row on laterally-winged filaments, lobed at the 

 apex ; anthers 4 mm. long ; capsule ovoid. 8-10 mm. 

 long, beaked by the short style, on a stipe of about 

 equal length. 



Low ground, I^pper Sonoran Zone; eastern Washington. 

 Type locality: Falcon X'alley, Klickitat County. 



3. Triteleia howellii ( S. A\'ats.) Abrams. 

 Howell's Triteleia. Fig. 985. 



Brodiaea hoivcllii S. Wats. Proc. Am. .\cad. 14: 301. 1S79. 

 Hookera hozi'dlii Piper, Contr. Nat. Herb. 11: 190. 1906. 



Leaves about two-thirds the length of the scape, 

 4—8 mm. wide, glabrous. Scapes slender. 40-60 cm. 

 long; umbel 6-15-flowered, open; pedicels 10-25 mm. 

 long; perianth deep violet-purple, 15-20 mm. long; 

 the tube turbinate-campanulate, slightly saccate above ; 

 the lobes ovate, a little shorter than the tube; stamens 

 in 2 rows, the filaments of the outer short and 

 deltoid, those of the inner broadly winged the whole 

 length, the wing tnmcate or roimded at apex ; anther 

 4 mm. long ; capsule oblong, 6 mm. long, attenuate 

 into the short style, the stipe about 4 mm. long. 



Dry hillsides and moist meadow-lands, mainly Transition 

 Zone; Puget Sound region of western Washington to Ellens- 

 burg, eastern Washington, south to the Hood River, Oregon. 

 Type locality: Klickitat County, Washington. 



4. Triteleia laxa Benth. 

 Common Triteleia or Triplet Lily. Fig. 



986. 



Triteleia laxa Uenth. Trans. Hort. Soc. 1: 41j!. /-/. 15. 



1835. 

 Seiibertia laxa Kunth, Enum. PI. 4: 475. 184.!. 

 Brodiaea laxa S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 14: -'37. 1879. 

 Triteleia Candida Greene, Bull. Calif. Acad. 2: 139. 1886. 

 Hookera laxa Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Calif. 117. 1901. 



Leaves about two-thirds the length of. the scape, 

 5-20 mm. wide, carinate. Scape slender or stout, 

 erect, 25-50 cm. long; umbels open, 6-30-flow- 

 ered ; pedicels 15-80 mm. long; perianth violet- 

 purple, rarely wliite, 25-40 mm. long; the tube 

 funnel-form, attenuate at base, the segments 

 oblong-ovate, a little shorter than the tube; 

 stamens in 2 rows, all anther-bearing; the free 

 portion of the filament slender, not dilated, below 

 coalescent with the perianth-tube and reappearing 

 near the base as low longitudinal crests ; anthers 

 oblong-lanceolate, 4 mm. long, erect, deeply 

 2-lobed at liase ; ovary purplisii ; capsule oblong- 

 ovoid, 8-10 mm. long, shorter tlian the slender 

 stipe. 



Open hillsides and valleys. esi)ecially in adobe soils, Transition and Upper .Sonoran Zones; Siskiyou and 

 Humboldt Counties, California, south through the Coast Ranges and foothills of the Sierra Nevada to 

 Los Angeles, but most common in the central Coast Ranges. Type locality: California. Collected by Douglas, 

 probably near Monterey. 



Triteleia angustiflora Heller. Bull. So. Calif. Acad. 2: 66. 1903. Scarcely more than a small-flowered 

 form of Triteleia laxa Henlh., distinguished by its smaller (20-25 mm. long) and narrowly funnel-form 

 perianth. Type locality: Tilniron Peninsida, on the Bay Road, Alarin County, California. 



