114 LILIACE2E. (lilt FAMILY.) 



4- -J- Flowers suhcapUate. 



4. B. congesta, Smith. Corm often deep-seated; scape 2 to 4 ft. high, smooth; 

 umbel often produced into a short dense raceme; flowers about 9 lines long; staminodia 

 deeply cleft, exceeding the nearly sessile emarginate anthers; capsule ovoid; seeds usually 

 solitary, 2 lines long. 



5. B. multiflora, Benth. Corm less deeply seated; scape 1 or 2 ft. high, some- 

 what scabrous; upibel not produced; staminodia broad, entire, obtuse, about equaling 

 the anthers; seeds several in each cell. 



* * Stamens 6, those opposite the inner perianth segments ivith their short ^.laments con- 



spicuousli/ wing-appendaged; segments little longer than the tube; flowers suhcapitate. 



6. B. capitata, Benth. Scape usually 1 or 2 ft. high; flowers 6 to 10 lines long; 

 outer filaments dilated at the base; inner anthers linear, little shorter than the oblong- 

 lanceolate wings; ovoid capsule 3 lines long. 



§ 2. Seubertia. 



* Perianth more or less attenuate at base; umbel open; flowers blue or purplish, rarely 



white. 



7. B. Bridgesii, Wat. Scape a foot high or more; flowers 12 to 15 lines long, the 

 very narrow tube exceeding the segments; filaments deltoid in one row on the throat; 

 anthers linear, 2 lines long; capsule ovoid shorter than the stipe, beaked by the very 

 slender style; seeds 2 or 3 in each cell. 



8. B. laxa, Wat. Scape 6 inches to 2 ft. high, smooth or scabrous; flowers few to 

 many, 12 to 20 lines long, the very narrow tube equaling or exceeding the segments; 

 filaments very slender, the upper on the throat o^jposite the inner segments; capsule 

 oblong, long-stipitate; style rather short; seeds several. 



9. B. peduncularis, Wat. Scape 1 or 2 ft. high, smooth; flowers C to 9 lines long, 

 on very slender pedicels, the segments a little longer than the turbinate tube; lower 

 anthers sessile, the upper on short filaments; stipe 1 or 2 lines long. 



B. crocea Wat. and B. gracilis, Wat., with yellow flowers, grow in the northern counties. The latter 

 only 2 to 4 inches high; leaf solitary. 



§ 3. Calliprora. 



10. B. isioides, Wat. Scape 3 inches to 2 ft. high, usually scabrous; flowers 

 yellow, more or less tinged with purple or nearly white (the brown mid-vein often double 

 or triple), 5 to 10 lines long, on pedicels 1 to 4 inches long; filaments winged their whole 

 length, bicuspidate above; capsule ovoid-oblong. 



11. B. lactea, Wat. Scape usually 1 or 2 ft. high, smoother scabrous; flowers white, 

 with green mid- veins or sometimes purplish, 4 or 5 lines long on slender pedicels; filaments 

 deltoid, a line long; capsule subglobose. — A stouter form north. 



Stropliolirion Californicum, Torr. , may be distinguished from Brodia?a by its rose- 



