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3, Dichelostemma multiflorum (Benth.) Heller. 

 Many-flowered Saitas or Brodiaea. Fig. 1003. 



Brodiaea multiflora Benth. PI. Hartvv. 339. 1857. 



Brodiaea pariiflora Toir. & Grav, Pacif. R. Rep. 2: 1J5. 

 1857. 



Dichelostemma multiflorum Heller, Muhlenbergia 2; 15. 

 1905. 



Leaves 3 or more, about equalling or sometimes 

 much exceeding the scape. Scape 2)-7 dm. high, 

 slightly scabrous ; umbel forming a more or less 

 congested, fevv-many-flowered head ; bracts ovate- 

 lanceolate, acute; pedicels 5-15 mm. long; per- 

 ianth deep violet-purple, 12-20 mm. long, the 

 segments oblong, about equalling the tube ; anthers 

 very nearly sessile ; staminodia equalling the an- 

 thers, entire, obtuse ; capsule sessile, broadly 

 ovoid, pointed, about 8 mm. long; seeds 3-4 in 

 each cavitv. 



Grassy hillsides, and mountain meadows. Upper So- 

 noran and Transition Zones; southern Oregon southward 

 through the Coast Ranges to Santa Clara County, tlie 

 Sacramento \'alley, and the Sierra Nevada to Mariposa 

 County, California. Type locality: "Mendelin Pass of 

 the Sierra Nevada." 



4. Dichelostemma capitatum (Benth) Wood. 

 Common Saitas or Brodiaea. Fig. 1004. 



Brodiaea cafitata Bentli. PI. Hartw. 339. 1857. 



Dichelostemma capitatum Wood, Proc. Acad. Philad 1868' 

 1868. 



173. 



Brodiaea insularis Greene, Bull. Calif. Acad. 2: 134. 1886. 



Dipterostemon capitatum Rybd. Bull. Torrev Club 39: 111. 

 1912. 



Leaves usually shorter than the scapes, 6-15 mm. 

 wide ; umbels subcapitate, 2-20-flo\vered ; pedicels 4-15 

 mtn. long ; perianth deep violet-purple, rarely red- 

 dish-purple, or white, broadly funnel-form, 12-20 

 mm. long, the segments equalling or somewhat ex- 

 ceeding the tube, oblong-ovate, obtuse ; stamens 6, 

 the inner anthers nearly sessile, 4 mm. long, a little 

 shorter and concealed by the erect oblong-lanceolate 

 appendages, the outer anthers about 2 mm. long, on 

 short naked filaments broadly dilated at base ; cap- 

 sule sessile, broadly ovoid, 6 mm. long, backed by 

 the slender stvle ; seeds several in each cavitv. 



Dry open ridges and grassy fields, Sonoran and Transition 

 Zones; southern Oregon to northern Lower California. A 

 very common species, showing considerable variation in the 

 size of the tlowers. Plants from the desert slopes of southern 

 California approach very closely the Dichelostemma pauci- 

 liora (Torr.) Standlcy, of Arizona and New Mexico, but are 

 not specifically distinct from the common form. 



9. BREVOORTIA Wood, Proc. Acad. Philad. 1867: 81. 18( 



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Scapes erect from a fibrous-coated conn, with a few linear basal leaves. Inflorescense a 

 terminal several-flowered umbel, with jointed pedicels and 2 or more scarious or colored 

 bracts. Perianth rather broadly tubular, shortly saccate at the truncate base, slightly con- 

 stricted at the throat, the segments short, more or less spreading or reflexed, faintly 1-nerved. 

 Stamens 3, on the throat opposite the inner perianth-segments, alternate with 3 very broad 

 truncate corona-like staminodia ; filaments very short, naked ; anthers basifixed, narrowly 

 oblong, emarginate at each end. Style elongated, persistent with a slishtly 7-lobed stigma. 

 Ovary stipitate ; ovules 4-6 in each cavity, capsule triangular-ovate, acuminate, loculicidal. 

 Seeds angled, black. [Named for J. Carson Brevoort, a patron of natural science.] 



A monotypic Californian genus. Type species, Brevoortia ida-maia Wood. 



