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liliacb:ae 



Brevoortia venusta Greene (Pittonia 2: 230. 



1. Brevoortia ida-maia Wood. 

 Fire-cracker Flower. Fig". 1005. 



Brevoortia ida-inaia Wood. Proc. Acad. Philad. 1867: 82. 



1867. 

 Brodiaea coccinea A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 7: 389. 



1867. 

 Brevoortia coccinea S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 14: 239. 



1879. 



Leaves mostly 3. linear, 30-45 cm. long, 4-8 mm. 

 wide, carinate. Scape rather slender, 3-10 dm. 

 long; umbels 5-15-tlowered ; pedicels 15-35 mm. 

 long ; flowers mostly nodding, 25-35 mm. long ; 

 perianth-tube scarlet, broadly tubular, 20-30 mm. 

 long ; perianth-segments 5-6 mm. long, ovate, 

 obtuse, erect or often reflexed, chrome-green ; 

 anthers 5 mm. long, erect, creamy-white; stam- 

 inodia 2-3 mm. long, pale yellow ; capsule ovate- 

 oblong, 10 mm. long, attenuate with the persistent 

 style, narrowed at base to the 5-6 mm. long stipe. 



Grassy hillsides in open forests. Humid Transition and 

 Upper Sonoran Zones; Siskiyou Mountains, southern Ore- 

 gon, to Marin and Contra Costa Counties, California. 

 Type locality: Trinity Mountains, Shasta County, near the 

 old "stage-road from Shasta City to Yreka." 



1892). According to Carl Purdy this is a hybrid between 

 Brevoortia ida-maia and Diclielosteinma congestum. Distinguished by the rose-purple perianth, constricted 

 under the segments, and the pinkish staminodia. Near Orr"s Springs, Mendocino County, California. 



10. ANDROSTEPHIUM Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 218. 1859. 



Scapose herbs, with fibrous-coated corm. Leaves basal, narrowly linear and channelled. 



Bracts several. Flowers in few-flowered umbels on short inarticulate pedicels. Perianth 



violet-purple, funnel-form, 6-cleft to the middle or below, the segments narrowly oblong, 



spreading, 1-nerved. Stamens 6, in one row on the throat, the filaments united to form a 



tubular corona with erect bifid segments between the anthers ; anthers versatile, introrse. 



Ovary ovate, sessile, with elongated persistent style. Capsule subglobose, 3-angled. Seeds 



several in each cavity, large, black. [Name Greek, meaning stamen crown, in allusion to the 



united filaments.] 



A genus of two species native of southwestern United 

 States. Type species. Aiidrostcthiiitii violaceiim Torr. 



1. Androstephium breviflorum S. Wats. 

 Small-flowered Androstephium. Fig. 1006. 



Androstephium brevMorum S. Wats. Am. Nat. 7: 303. 1873. 



Scape rather stout, 1-3 dm. high, scabrous espe- 

 cially iaelow. Leaves several, equalling or exceeding 

 the scape. 2 mm. wide, scabrous ; bracts lanceolate, 

 scarious ; umbels 3-12-flowered ; pedicels 15-30 

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

 long ; the segments much longer than the tube ; 

 lobes of the crown shorter than the anthers ; an- 

 thers 3 mm. long ; capsule 15-18 mm. in diameter, 

 somewhat deeply 3-lobed ; seeds usually 6 in each 

 cavity, 6-8 mm. long. ■ 



Lower Sonoran Zone: vicinity of the Needles, southern 

 California eastward to southern Utah and southwestern 

 Colorado. Type locality: southern Utah. 



11. LEUCOCRINUM Nutt. ; A. Gray. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 4: 110. 1837 



Acaulescent herb, with a deep-seated short rhizome, fleshy roots and narrowly linear leaves 

 surrounded at base by scarious bracts. Flowers in central sessile umbels, showy and fragrant, 

 the pedicels with sheathing bracts. Perianth salver-form with a slender elongated tube and 

 narrowly lanceolate several-nerved segments, persistent. Stamens 6; filaments filiform, in- 

 serted below the throat ; anthers linear, attached near the base, introrse. Ovary sessile ovate- 

 oblong; style persistent, filiform, tubular, the orifice somewhat e.^panded and slightly 3-lobed; 

 ovules several in each cavity. Capsule triangular-obovate, subcoriaceous, loculicidally de- 

 hiscent. Seeds obovate, strongly angled, with a dull black seed coat. [Name Greek, meaning 

 white lily.] 

 A monotypic genus of western north America. • 



