LILY FAMILY 



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Fig. 48. a, MuiLi,A 

 MARITIMA Wats., 

 stamen, X 16; 6, 



M. CORONATA 



Greene, stamen, X 

 16. 



2. M. serotina Greene. Scape taller (14 to 20 inches high) ; leaves fewer; 

 umbel 10 to 20 (or 40)-flowered; perianth dull white, with very broad green 

 veins to the segments. 



Half-open foothills : upper San Joaquin Valley ; more 

 common in the mountains or towards the interior of South- 

 ern California. 



Locs. — Alcalde, T. Brandegee ; Pasadena, G. B. Grant 803; San 

 Jacinto River, HaU 519; San Diego, T. Brandegee ; Blair Valley, e. 

 San Diego Co., Jepson 8701. 



Refs. — MuiLLA SEROTiN.v Greene, Pitt. 1:152 (1893), type loe. Los 

 Angeles, Davi^dson 2052. M. tenuis Congdon, Zoe 5:35 (1901), type 

 loc. Raymond, Madera Co., Congdon, may be a synonym. 



3. M. coronata Greene. (Fig. 48b.) Scape li/o to 2 

 inches high ; perianth-segments with narrow white scarious 

 border ; filaments hyaline, broadly oblong, refuse at summit, 

 the anther on a short inflexed slender cusp ai'ising from 

 the noteli. 



Antelope Valley, western Mohave Desert. 

 Ref. — MuiLLA CORONATA Greene, Pitt. 1:165 (1888), type loe. 

 Lancaster, Mojave Desert, Parry. Well marked by its peculiar fila- 

 ments. 



].j. BLOOMERIA Kell. 



Stem scapose, from a fibrous-coated conn. Leaves linear, carinate. Umbel 

 with many yellow flowers; pedicels jointed at the summit and subtended by 

 membi-anous bracts. Perianth persistent, of 6 nearly equal distinct segments. 

 Stamens 6, inserted on the base of and rather shorter than the segments ; fila- 

 ments filiform, margined at base by wing-like appendages. Capsule sub-globose ; 

 seeds 2 to several in each cell, angular and wrinkled ; style 1, persistent and 

 splitting with the loculicidal capsule. — Species 2. (H. G. Bloomer, a pioneer 

 botanist of San Francisco.) 



Stamen appendages papillose; style as long or longer than the ovary 1. B. crocea. 



Stamen appendages smooth, fleshy; style shorter than the ovary 2. B. clevelandii. 



1. B. crocea Cov. Golden Bloomebia. Scape 6 to 14 inches high, minutely 

 scabrous ; leaves 2, 2 to 3 lines wide, one of them as long as the scape : pedicels 

 30 to 50, 11/2 to 2 inches long ; bracts several, subulate-lanceolate ; perianth-seg- 

 ments orange-yellow, linear-oblong, sub-rotate, 5 to 6 lines long, striped with 2 

 closely parallel dark lines ; lower % or ly-o of the stamen appendages adnate to 

 the perianth, the upper free portion ending in a nectar-bearing often bicuspidate 

 cup bearing the filament; capsule nearly 3 lines long. 



South Coast Ranges, ea.st to the Sierra Nevada of Kern Co. and south to 

 cismontane Southern California. May-June. 



Locs. — Pacheco Pass ; San Antonio Creek, Monterey Co. ; Morro, . San Luis 01)ispo Co., 

 Barber; Santa Barbara, Dunn; Ojai Valley, Olive Thacher; Rubio Caiion, foothills east, 

 Peirson 6; Cajon Pass, Jepson 6107; Mentone, Parish; Vandeventer, Jepson 1334; San Diego, 

 Ormitt; Santa Rosa and Santa Catalina islands (Zoe, 1:145); Santa Cruz Isl., Greene. 



Refs. — Bloomeria crocea Cov. Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 4:203 (1893). Allium croeeum 

 Torr. Bot. Me.x. Bound. 218 (1859, — at least as early as Sept.), type loc. summit of the 

 mountains e. of San Diego, Parrii. Bl-oomcria aurca Kell. Hesperian, 3:437 (Dec. 1859); 

 Proc. Cal. Acad. 2:11, pi. (1863), tvpe loc. New Idria, Veatch. Notlwscordum aureum Hook, 

 f. Bot. Mag. t. 5896 (1871). Bloomtria montana Greene, Bull. Cal. Acad. 1:281 (1885), type 

 loc. near Tehachapi, Curran. 



2. B. clevelandii Wats. Scape stout, 3 to 12 inches high ; leaves several, 

 narrow (1 line wide or less) ; pedicels 20 to 30, slender, 1 to li/i inches long; 

 inner flowers of the umbel maturing slowly; perianth-segments yellow with a 

 green stripe, linear-elli]itic, 3 to 4 lines long; stamen aiiix'iulages oblong, entire, 

 obtuse at the summit, adnate to the perianth-segments, only i/r, their length ; 

 capsule 2 to 2i/^ lines long. 



