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2. Schoenolirion bracteosum (S. Wats.) Jepson. 



Bracted Schoenolirion. 



Fig-. 1011. 



Hastiiigsia hracteosa S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 20: 377. 1885. 

 Schoenolirion bracteosum Jepson, Fl. Calif. 1 : 268. 1922. 



Bulb oblong-obovid, 20-25 mm. in diameter. Stem 

 stout, about 6 dm. high ; leaves 3-5 dm. long, 2-6 mm. 

 wide ; raceme elongated, sparingly branched below ; 

 bracts filiform-attenuate, 7-11 mm. long; pedicels 2-3 

 mm. long ; perianth-segments narrowly linear-lanceolate, 

 10-12 mm. long, white, prominently nerved ; stamens 

 about half the length of the perianth-segments ; style 

 stout, nearly as long as the ovary ; capsule unknown. 



Mountain meadows and springs, Transition Zone: Siskiyou 

 Mountains, southern Oregon, and Del Norte County, California. 

 Type locality: "Eight Dollar ^Mountain," near Waldo, Oregon. 



15. LAOTHOE Raf. Fl. Tellur. 3: 53. 1836. 

 [Chlorogalum Kunth, Enum. 4: 681. 1843.] 



Stems from a fibrous or membranously coated bulb, tall, almost leafless, paniculately 

 branched above, the branches loosely racemose. Basal leaves tufted, long-linear, the stem 

 leaves much reduced. Bracts small and scarious. Pedicels jointed at the suminit. Perianth 

 white or purplish, persistent and at length twisted over the ovary, its segments distinct, ligulate, 

 spreading, with 3 closely approximate nerves. Stamens 6, inserted on the base of the perianth- 

 segments ; anthers versatile. Style long-filiform, slightly 3-cleft. Capsule broadly turbinate, 

 3-valved, loculicidal. Seeds 1 or 2 in each cell, obovate, with a thin somewhat rugose testa. 

 [Name in honor of the nymph.] 



A California genus of fovir species. Type species, Laothoe pomeridiana (DC.) Raf. 



Bulb with thick fibrous coats; pedicels usually 10 mm. or more in length. 

 Bulb with membranous coats; pedicels usually 5 mm. or less in length. 

 Leaves undulate: flowers not white. 

 Leaves glabrous: bracts attenuated. 

 Leaves more or less scabrous; bracts triangular. 

 Leaves narrowly linear, not undulate, becoming revolute; flowers white. 



1. L. pomeridiana. 



2. L. purpurea. 



3. L. pari'iflora. 



4. L. angnstifolia. 



1, Laothoe pomeridiana (DC.) Raf. Common Soap Plant or Amole. Fig. 1012. 



Scilla pomeridiana DC. Cat. Hort. Monsp. 143. 1813. 

 Laothoe pomeridiana Raf. Fl. Tellur. 3: 53. 1836. 

 Ornithogalum dnancatnm Lindl. Bot. Reg. 28: pi. 28. 



1841. 

 Chorogalum pomeridianum Kunth, Enum. PL 4: 682. 1843. 

 Laothoe divaricata Greene, Leaflets 1: 91. 1904. 



Bulbs oblong-ovate, often 10 cm. long, densely 

 coated with coarse brown fibres. Stem 4—12 dm. 

 high, glabrous ; basal leaves broadly linear, 15-45 

 cm. long. 8-20 mm. wide, glabrous, carinate, the 

 margins strongly undulate, the stem leaves only 1 

 or 2, much reduced and attenuated ; panicle often 

 7 dm. long, the branches ascending or widely 

 spreading ; pedicels 10-20 mm. long ; perianth- 

 segments narrowly ligulate, 15-20 mm. long, 

 scarcely 2 mm. wide, widely spreading from the 

 base and more or less recurved, white with a 

 purple midrib formed by the 3 approximate 

 nerves : stamens about two-thirds the length of 

 the perianth-segments ; capsule subglobose, 6 mm. 

 long. 



Open valleys and foothills, especially in stony ground. 

 Upper Sonoran Zone: upper Sacramento Valley and Men- 

 docino County, California. Type locality: not given. 

 The bulbs are sometimes used as a substitute for soap. 

 The flowers, which bloom in midsummer, after the leaves 

 have begun to dry up, open only toward evening. 



