142 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



^^'* Perianth tube short, the segments rotate -spreading, 

 filaments hdoiv coalescent luith the short perianth-tuhe, free and 

 broadly appendaged above it. — Calliprora. 



T. ixioiDES. Scape i — 2 feet high: leaves 1 or 2: fiUi- 

 ments of two lengths but all bifurcate at apex, the oblong 

 anther inserted on a central cusp: color light yellow, or the 

 anther only sometimes bluish. — Ornithogalum, Ait. f. Hort. 

 Kew ii. 257: Milla, Baker, 1. c. 383: Brod'mn, AVatson, 1. c. : 

 Calliprora lutea, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1590; Hook. Bot. Mag. 

 t. 3588; Kunth, 1. c. 476; Hook & Arn. 1. c. 400. 



Common from the southern portions of the State to Or- 

 egon. 



T. LUGENS. Like the preceding in size and habit; append- 

 ages of the filaments rounded, not bifurcate, at apex : peri- 

 anth deep saffron color within, exteriorly the entire tube 

 and the broad midvein of the segments brownish black. 



Collected only by the writer, on mountain summits back 

 of Vacaville, May 4, 1886. 



■^«-5(-K- Perianth open-campanidate, cleft below the middle, seg- 

 ments not rotate-spreading. — Hesperoscordum. 



T. HYACiNTHiNA. Scape a foot or two high : pedicels 5—20, 

 slender: perianth 5 — 8 lines long, white with green veins, 

 or sometimes tinged with purple: stamens in one row; fila- 

 ments deltoid-dilated and monadelphous below, attenuate 

 above and tipped with a small ovate-oblong anther : capsule 

 short-stipitate. — Hesperoscordum hyacinthiniim, Lindl. Bot. 

 Reg. t. 1293; H. lacteum, Lindl. 1. c. t. 1639; Wood, 1. c; 

 H. Leivisii, Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. ii. 185, t. 198; H. hyacinth- 

 inum and H. lacteum, Kunth. 1. c. 464: 31illa hyacinthina, 

 Baker, 1. c. 385: Brodicea lactea, Watson, 1. c. : Allium lac- 

 teum, Benth. PI. Hartw. 339; A. Tilingi, Regel. All. Mon. 

 124. 



From middle California to British Columbia; affecting 

 moist grounds, flowering in May and June. The var. lila- 



