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LILIACEAE 



3. Hookera californica (Lindl.) Greene. California Hookera. Fig. 995. 



Brodiaea californica Lindl. Journ. Hort. Soc. 4: 84. 1849. 

 Brodiaca grandiflora major Centh.; S. Wats. Bot. Calif. 2 



153. 1880. 

 Hookera californica Greene, Bull. Calif. Acad. 2: 



1886. 

 Hookera leptandra Greene, Pittonia 1 : 74. 1887. 

 Hookera sviiandra Heller, Bull. S. Calif. Acad. 2: 



1903. 



136. 



65. 



Leaves thick and channelled conduplicate, 3 mm. 

 wide. Scape stout. 30-50 cm. high, scabrous ; 

 umbels open, 3-13-flo\vered ; pedicels stout, un- 

 equal, 2-9 cm. long ; perianth violet-purple, 30^0 

 mm. long, the tube narrowlv funnel-form, thin 

 and finally splitting away from the capsule, 

 scarceh' one-third the length of the oblong spread- 

 ing segments, outer segments acute, the inner 

 rounded at apex ; filaments not flattened, 5-6 mm. 

 long ; anthers oblong, 8 mm. long ; staminodia 

 white, oblong, the margins slightly involute, 

 usually a little exceeding the anthers ; 2 mm. 

 wide, blunt or retuse ; capsule obovoid, sessile, 

 abruptly attenuated at apex ; seeds 6-8 in each 

 cavity. 



Dry gravelly hillsides. Upper Sonoran and Transition 

 Zones; Sierra Nevada foothills, from Shasta to Nevada 

 Counties, California. Type locality: Sacramento Valley. 



4. Hookera minor (Benth.) Britten. Small Hookera. Fig. 996. 



Brodiaea grandiflora minor Benth. PI. Hartw. 340. 1857. 



Brodiaea minor S. Wats. Bot. Calif. 2: 153. 1880. 



Hookera minor Britten, Tourn. Bot. 24: 51. 1886. 



Brodiaea piirdyi Eastw. Proc. Calif. Acad. II. 6: 427. fl. 5S. 



1896. 

 Hookera purdyi Heller, Muhlenbergia, 6: 83. 1910. 



Leaves 2-3 mm. wide, channelled. Scape slender, 

 1-2 dm. high ; umbels open, 2-9-flovvered ; pedicels 

 2-4 cm. long; perianth violet-purple, 20-25 mm. long, 

 the tube scarcely half the lengtli of the segments, con- 

 stricted at the tliroat above the ovary, the segments 

 linear-oblong, widely spreading and recurved ; anthers 

 subsessile, scarcely 4 mm. long ; staminodia white, 

 erect, 13 mm. long, 3 mm. wide, dentate or emargin- 

 ate at apex ; capsules sessile, round-obovoid, 4-5 mm. 

 long, rounded at apex, closely enclosed by the con- 

 stricted persistent perianth-tube ; seeds 2 in each 

 cavity. 



Foothills of the Sierra Nevada in Butte County, Upper 

 Sonoran Zone. Type locality: foothills of the Sierra Nevada, 

 probably in Butte County, California. 



5. Hookera rosea Greene. Rose-flowered Hookera. I'ig. 



997. 



Hookera rosea Greene, Bull. Calif. Acad. 2: 137. 1886. 

 Brodiaea rosea Baker, Gard. Chron. III. 20; 214. 1896. 



Corm round-ovoid, seated 4-6 cm. Leaves 2-3, 

 usually exceeding the scape, thick and subterete, L5-2.5 

 mm. wide; scapes slender. 8-15 cm. high; bracts 6-7 

 mm. long: umbels open, 2-8-flowered ; pedicels slender, 

 1-2 cm. long; perianth 15-20 mm. long, rose-red, the 

 tul)e broadly funnel-form ; segments but little longer 

 than the tube, oblong oval, campanulate-spreading ; 

 filaments deltoid-dilated, 1.5 mm. long ; anthers oblong, 

 4 mm. long, sagittate at base, cleft at apex ; staminodia 

 lanceolate, acute and entire at apex, slightly involute ; 

 capsule narrowed to a subsessile base. 



Moist gravelly creek bottoms. Upper Sonoran Zone: Lake 

 County, California. Type locality: Hough's Springs, Lake County, 

 California. 



