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10. B. stellaris Wats. Scape very short (2 to 6 inches high) and pedicels 

 long (11/-. to 4 inches) ; conn flat, without offsets; umbel 3 to 6-flowered ; perianth 

 6 to 9 lines long, the greenish narrow tube nearly equaling the deep-purple 

 rather narrow segments ; anthers subsessile, the short filaments bearing two ap- 

 pendages or linear-oblong wings standing directly behind and y^ to % as long 

 as the anthers; anthers l^^ lines long, shorter than the staminodia ; stamiuodia 

 large, conspicuouslj- wdiite, retuse, apparently erect and not approximate around 

 the style. 



Mendocino Range; occurs longitudinally for about 20 miles (Carl Purdy). 



Eefs, — Bkodiaea stell.«is Wats. I'roe. Am. Acad. 17:381 (1882), type loe. Gould's Ranc-h 

 in the mountaius sw. of Ukiah, Purdy. Huukcria stellaris Greene, Bull. Cal. Acad. 2:137 

 (1886). A distinctive species with strong technical characters re-collected only near Orr's 

 Sprs., Bergfried. 



11. B. rosea Baker. (Fig. 50a-d.) Scape slender, 3 to 5 inches high; bulb 

 depressed ovate with heavily fibrous coat, 6 to 12 lines broad ; umbel 3 to 10- 

 fiowered, its pedicels V2 to 1 inch long; perianth 10 lines long, flesh pink (be- 

 coming rose-pink in age or in drying), the midveins darker; periantli-segments 

 oblong-ovate, acute; filaments narrow but backed by a deltoid-dilated wing; 

 anthers hugging the style, deeply and narrowly notched both at base and apex ; 

 staminodia long-oblong, notched at the acutish apex, exceeding the anthers and 

 closely ajjproximate about them by their strongly involute margins. 



Northeastern Lake Co., on the serpentine rocks. 



IjOcs. — Indian Valley, ne. Lake Co., Jepson 8985; Epperson Mt., ace. Purdy. 

 Refs. — Bi.ODiAEA ROSEA Baker, Gard. Chron. ser. 3, 20:214, fig. 39 (1890). Hookera rosea 

 Greene, Bull. Cal. Acad. 2:137 (1886), type loe., Hough's Springs, Lake Co., Curraii. 



12. B. coronaria Jepson. Harvest Brodl\ea. (Fig. 50e-g.) Scape stout, 

 (5 or) 7 to 20 inclies high; umbel 3 to 11-flowered, its pedicels 1 to 31/0 inches 

 long; ])erianth violet-purple, I14 to 1% inches long; segments narrowly oblong, 

 longer than the tube, in age withering and becoming caudate; anthers 4 to 5 

 lines long, exceeding or at least equaling the oblong-lanceolate mostly acule 

 staminodia ; staminodia erect, the antliers approximate in center around style ; 

 ovary with strongly developed angles or shoulders. 



Common on rolling plains, in the foothills and mountains, Coast Ranges and 

 Sierra Nevada foothills, Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys, south to cismon- 

 tane Southern California ; north to Vancouver Island : flowering in ]\lay and 

 early June at tlie time of the hay harvest when the liills and fields are tui-ning 

 l)rown. Altitude 200 to 2500 feet, or up to 4500, or even 8000 feet towards the 

 south. Rarely occurs near the coast. 



Locs. — Sierra Nevada : Iron Canon, Butte Co., K. M. Atistin 27 ; Grass Valley, Heller 8097 ; 

 Bear Valley, Nevada Co., Jepson; lone, Braunton 1009; Clements, Jepson 1822; Columbia, 

 Jepson 6395; Confidence, Jepson 7712; Strawberry, Tuolumne Co., Elizabeth Perrii; Tenaya 

 Creek, Jepson 4386; Hetch Hetchy, Jepson 3474, 4623; CoulterviUe grade, Jepson; Huntington 

 Lake, Fresno Co., A. L. Grant 1092; Mineral King, Jepson 1153. San Joaquin Valley: Collis, 

 Jepson 2744. Southern California: San Bernardino Mts., Parish 1660. Coast Ranges: Yreka, 

 Butler 1421; Redwood Creek, Hupa road, Jepson 1960; Bear Valley, w. Colusa Co., Jepson 

 8971; Mendocino Range, Jepson 7628; Windsor, Jepson 7655; Mt. St. Helena, Jepson 7665; 

 Howell Mt. foothills, Jepson 2434; Sweeney Creek, nw. Solano Co., Jepson 9053; Vacaville, 

 Jepson 4237; Napa, Jepson; Sonoma Creek Canon, M. S. Baker; Benieia Hills, Jepson 8324; 

 Berkeley, Helen Bergfried; Mt. Diablo, Jepson 7599; Niles, Jepson; Madrona, Santa Clara 

 Co., Jepson; Mt. Hamilton, Holden; Jolon, K. Brandegee. 



Var. mimdula Jepson n. var. Fifteen to 18 inches high; pedicels 3 to 6 or 8 lines long. — 

 (Plantao uiie. 15-18 altae; umbella eompacta: pediculi lin. 3-6 vel 8 longi.) — Soulsbyville, 

 Tuolumne Co., Jepscfn 7683 (type). A trim tall plant with very compact umbels. 



Refs. — Brodiaea corox.\RIA Jepson, Madroiio, 1:61 (1917). Hookera coronaria- Salisb. 

 Parad. t. 98 (1806), type loe. Cal., first collected by Menzi-es; Britten, Jour. Bot. 24:51 (1883) ; 

 Greene, Bull. Cal. Acad. 2:136 (1886); Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 116 (1901). Brodiaea 

 grandiflora Smith, Trans. Linn. Soe. 10:2 (1811), type from Vancouver Isl., Memics; Lindl. 



