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otherwise as the last. — PI. Hartw. 339 ; Hook, f . Bot. Mag. t. 5989. 

 B. parviflora, Torr. & Gray, Pacif. R. Rep. 2. 125. B. grandiflora, 

 var. brachypoda, Torr., same, 4. 149. Sacramento Valley to Oregon 

 and in the Sierra Nevada. 



•<- i- Stamens 6, those opposite the inner perianth-segments with their short 

 filaments conspicuously wing-appendaged : segments little longer than the 

 tube : flowers subcapitate. 



6. B. capitata, Benth. Scape usually 1 or 2 feet high: flowers 

 6 to 10 lines long: outer filaments dilated at base; inner anthers 

 linear, little shorter than the oblong-lanceolate wings : capsule ovate, 

 3 lines long; cells several-seeded. — PI. Hartw. 339. Hookera pid- 

 chella, Salisb. Parad. t. 117? Dichelostemma capitata, Wood, I.e. 

 173. Milla capitata, Baker, 1. c. 381. California to Utah. 



* * Stamens in 2 rows (except in n. 8), with more or less distinctly versatile 

 anthers and naked filaments : capsule stipitate : perianth-segments equalling 

 or shorter than the mostly narrow tube. — § Seubertia. 



-t- Perianth broadly funnel-form : flowers subcapitate. 



7. B. Douglasit. Scape 1 or 2 feet high : flowers few or many, 

 blue, 8 to 12 lines long: anthers a line long, the lower on the throat, 

 the upper on the inner perianth-segments ; filaments short. — Triteleia 

 grandiflora, Lindl. ; Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. 2. 186, t. 198, B. Brodicea 

 grandiflora, Torr. in Stansb. Rep. 397. Milla grandiflora, Baker, 

 1. c. Washington Territory and Oregon to Wyoming and Utah. 



■*- >t- Perianth more or less attenuate at base : umbel open. 

 ++ Flowers blue or purplish ; rarely white. 



8. B. Bridgesii. 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 

 ovate, shorter than the stipe, beaked by the very slender style : seeds 

 2 or 3 in each cell. — Central California (foothills of the Sierra Neva- 

 da ; Bridges, n. 338 ; and others). 



9. B. laxa. Scapes 6 inches to 2 feet high, smooth or scabrous : 

 flowers few to many, 12 to 20 lines long, the very narrow tube equal- 

 ling or exceeding the segments : filaments very slender, short or elon- 

 gated, the upper on the throat opposite the inner segments : capsule 

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

 laxa, Benth. Trans. Hort. Soc. 1. 413, t. 15, f. 2 ; Lindl. Bot. Reg. 

 t. 1685. Seubertia, Kunth. Milla, Baker. Coast Ranges, from San 

 Francisco to Humboldt County. 



10. B. peduncularis. Scape 1 or 2 feet high, smooth: flowers 

 smaller (6 to 9 lines long), on very slender pedicels, the segments a 



