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6, Hookera stellaris (S. Wats.) Greene. Star-flowered Hookcra. 



Fig. 



998. 



Brodiaea stellaris S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 17: .^81. 1882. 

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



Conns round-ovoid, 12-16 mm. broad, seated 3-4 

 cm. Leaves 3-7, usually much exceeding the scapes, 

 semi-terete, scarcely 2 mm. wide; scapes rather 

 stout, glabrous. 8-15 cm. long ; bracts ovate, 5-6 mm. 

 long ; umbels open, 3-8-flo\vered ; pedicels unequal, 

 .3-7 cm. long; perianth 15-20 mm. long, violet-purple, 

 the tube funnel-form, greenish ; segments a third 

 longer than the tube, oblong-oval, obtuse, spreading ; 

 stamens 3 ; filaments very short, with 2 dorsal ap- 

 pendages appearing as wings back of the anthers ; 

 anthers 3 mm. long, sagittate ; staminodia white, 

 deeply emarginate, exceeding the anthers ; capsule 

 narrowed to a subsessile base. 



Moist soils, Upper Sonoran Zone: Humboldt and Mendocino 

 Counties, California. Type locality: mountain sides near 

 Ukiali. California. 



7. Hookera orcuttii (ireeiie. Orcutt's Hookera. 



Fig. 



999. 



Hookera orcuttii Greene, Bull. Calif. Acad. 2: 138. 1886. 

 Brodiaea orcuttii Baker, Gard. Chron. III. 20: 214. 1896. 

 Hookera multipcdunculata Abrams, Dull. Torrey Club 32: 537. 



Corm subglobose, 15-20 nun. broad, seated 6-10 cm. 

 Leaves often longer than the scape, usually 2. fiat or 

 channelled, 4-5 mm. broad, glabrous ; scape rather stout, 

 1-4 dm. high, one to several from each corm ; bracts 

 ovate, acuminate. 6-8 mm. long; umbels open, 6-14- 

 fiowered; pedicels unequal, 2-5 cm. long; perianth 

 violet-purple, 18-20 mm. long, the short tube about half 

 the length of the oblong spreading segments, outer 

 segments cuspidate ; stamens 3 ; filaments slender, 3 

 mm. long; anthers 4 mm. long; staminodia wanting; 

 capsule oblong-ovoid, sessile, 5 mm. long. 



Heavy adobe soil of tbe Upper Sonoran and Transition Zones; 

 southern California, on the mountains and mesas of San Diego 

 County. Type locality: near San Diego. 



8. Hookera filifolia (S. Wats.) Greene. 



Thread-leaved Hookera. 



Fig. 1000. 



Brodiaea filifolia S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 17: 381. 1882. 

 Hookera filifolia Greene, Bull. Calif. Acad. 2: 138. 1886. 



Leaves several about equalling or shorter than the 

 scapes, mostly 1-2 mm. wide. Scapes 20-40 cm. high, 

 smooth ; umbel 5-8-flowered. open ; pedicels 25-60 

 mm. long, slender; perianth violet-purple, usually 

 tinged with rose; 12-18 mm. long, the tube rather 

 narrow, shorter than the broadly oblong segments, 

 becoming membranous and splitting from the cap- 

 sule, the outer segments mucronate ; anthers sessile, 

 4 mm. long; staminodia triangular, about 2 mm. 

 long; capsule oblong-obovate, sessile, 6 mm. long; 

 seeds 2 in each cavity. 



Heavy soils of the Upper Sonoran Zone: San Bernardino 

 \ alley, southern California. Type locality: Arrowhead Hot 

 Springs, near San Bernardino, California. 



