GENERA CONFUSED UNDER BRODLEA. 137 



somewhat less, the limb rotate-spreading : anthers 2' lines 

 long, shorter than tiie retuse or emarginate staminodia. — 

 Brodkea grandiflora, var. minor, Uenth. PI. Hartw. 340; B. 

 minor, Watson, 1. c. 



Common from the Sacramento Yalley to the southern ex- 

 tremity of the State. Keadily distinguished from the pre- 

 ceding, when seen in the field, by its rotate perianth-seg- 

 ments. 



H. TEREESTRis, Britten, 1. c. Scape commonly altogether 

 subterranean, the umbel only above ground: leaves subter- 

 ete : pedicels 2 — 10, slender, 3 — 4 inches long : perianth less 

 than an inch, the limb rotate : anthers Ih lines long, shorter 

 than the yellowish emarginate staminodia, the margins of 

 which are involute. — Brodkea, Kellogg, Proc. Cal. Acad. ii. 

 6; Watson, 1. c. 



From near San Francisco northward to the borders of 

 Oregon, toward the coast. Its yellowish staminodia, with 

 their margins rolled in. resemble true anthers but are 

 wholly sterile. 



H. STELLARis. Scapc 2 — 6 inches high : leaves nearly ter- 

 ete: pedicels 3 — 6, an inch or more long: perianth 10 lines 

 long, red-purple: fertile filaments wing-appendaged behind 

 the anther, the appendages broadly oblong, half the length 

 of the anther : staminodia longer than the stamens, white, 

 emarginate, their margins slightly involute. — Brodicea, Wat- 

 son, Proc. Am. Acad, xvii, 381. 



Near Ukiah, Mendocino County, discovered in 1881, by 

 Mr. Carl Purdy, and not yet found elsewhere. 



H. ROSEA. Scape slender, 3 — 6 inches high: leaves sub- 

 terete: pedicels 5 — 8, an inch long: perianth 10 lines long, 

 rose-red, the segments narrow and apparently campanulate- 

 spreading: free portion of fertile filaments deltoid-dilated; 

 anthers not quite equaling the white, obtuse, slightly invo- 

 lute staminodia: capsule short-stipitate, the cells 5 — 8 

 ovuled. 



