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5. Triteleia modesta (Hall) Abrams. 

 Hall's Triteleia. Fig. 987. 



Brodiaea modesta Hall, Univ. Calif. Pub. But. 6: 166. 1915. 



Scape erect, 15-20 cm. long, slender, glabrous ; 

 leaves about equalling the scape, flat, 1-4 mm. broad ; 

 bracts acuminate, 6 mm. long ; umbel subcapitate, 

 4— 8-rtowered ; pedicels 4-10 mm. long ; periantii 

 light blue, narrowly tlunnel-form, attenuate at base, 

 15 mm. long; segments equalling the tube, the outer 

 lanceolate, acute, the inner a little sliorter and obtuse ; 

 stamens in 2 rows, the lower attached on the throat, 

 the upper on the inner segments ; filaments 2 mm. 

 long, slender; anthers blue, 1.5-2 mm. long, linear- 

 oblong ; ovar_v ovoid-oblong, 6 mm. long including 

 the short stipe; style 1.5 mm. long. 



Known only from tlie type locality: Castle Lake, Siskiyou 

 County, California, at an altitude of about 6,500 feet, Canadian 

 Zone. 



6. Triteleia peduncularis Lindl. 

 Long-rayed Triteleia. Fig. 988. 



Triteleia t<eduncularis Lindl. Bot. Reg. 20: under pi. 1685. 



1834. 

 Brodiaea peduncularis S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 14: 2.^7. 



1879. 

 Hookera peduncularis Jepson, Fl. \V. Mid. Calif. 11". 



1901. 



Scape erect, 2-8 dm. long, glabrous ; leaves 

 usually 2 or 3, often longer than the scapes, 5-10 

 mm. wide; umbel open, 5-17-flowered ; pedicels 

 slender 5-20 cm. long; perianth 15-25 mm. long; 

 violet-purple, the tube turbinate not long-attenuate 

 at base ; segments equalling or exceeding the tube, 

 the outer lanceolate, acute, the inner oval, oblong ; 

 stamens in 2 rows, all anther-bearing, the outer 

 sessile, the inner with short slender filaments ; 

 anthers oblong-lanceolate, 3 mm. long, creamy- 

 white ; ovary yellow ; capsule broadlj' oblong, 5-6 

 mm. long, about equalling the stipe. 



Moist places. Upper Sonoran Zone; nortliern Coast 

 Ranges of California. Type locality: "California." 



7. Triteleia crocea (Wood) Greene. 

 Yellow Triteleia. Fig. 989. 



Seubertia Crocea Wood, Proc. Acad. Philad. 1858: 17_\ 



1868. 

 Brodiaea crocea S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 14: 238. 



1879. 

 Triteleia crocea Greene, Bull. Calif. Acad. 2: 141. 



1886. 



Scapes rather slender, 8-25 cm. long, 

 sparsely and minutely retrorsely scabrous ; 

 leaves shorter than or exceeding the scapes, 

 3-5 mm. wide, very minutely scabrous ; umljel 

 5-15-flowered rather close ; pedicels slender, 

 8-40 mm. long; perianth 15-18 mm. long, yel- 

 low with a prominent greenish brown or pur- 

 plish midvein ; tube turbinate, not distinctly 

 attenuate at base ; segments ovate-lanceolate, 

 a little longer than the tube ; stamens in 2 

 rows, the lower subsessile, the upper with short 

 slightly dilated filaments ; anthers scarcely 2 

 mm. long ; ovary pul)escent on the angles ; cap- 

 sule broadly oblong-ovoid, 6 mm. long, on a 

 stipe of about equal length. 



Open woods. Transition Zone; Siskiyou and Shasta 

 Counties, California. Type locality: Yreka, California. 



