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versatile, ovate lanceolate, obtuse, the 3 inner higher than the 3 outer; ovary 

 oval, longer than its style, 3 to 5 times shorter than its stipe ; capsule ovoid, 

 ripening few black seeds from many (15 — 45) ovules. — Bulbous. Leaves lance- 

 linear. Scape umbellate. Spathe of 3 — 6 narrow bracts. 



S. LAXA Kunth. Bulb globular, tibrous-coated ; leaves as long as the scape 

 (12 — 18^), broadly linear (5— 8^^ ; pedicels 10—20, suberect, 2—3^ ; flowers 

 violet-purple, segments with a triple midvein ; stipe 5 or 6 times as long as the 

 ovary (near 1^). — California, middle and northern counties. Bulb as large as 

 a musket ball. Flowers 16^'' long. April, May. Very handsome. 



S. CROCEA (n. sp.) Foliis 1 — 2 (v. pluribus ?), linearibus, conduplicato- 

 falcatis, erectis, scapo gracilente brevioribus, obtusis ; spatha e bracteis 4 

 subulatis acuminatis, pediculis breviora ; floribus 5 v. 6, basi acutis, supra 

 sensim dilatatis (9 lin. longis), segm. jeque obtusis, medio vena forti instructis ; 

 anth. oblongis, interioribus duplo altioribus ; ovario quam stipes crassus 

 triplo breviori ; loculis 5-spermi3. — Yreka, California. Caulis pedalis. Flores 

 crocei. June. 



CALLIPRORA, Lindl. (Kaxxo?, beauty, w/nj-^a, front.) 



Perianth of 6 segments united at base into a turbinate tube, spreading above, 

 oblong, 1-veined; stamens 6, perigynous, 3 of them longer, fil. dilated, all 

 tricuspidate, the middle cusp shortest, bearing the anthers ; ovary shortstiped ; 

 style and stigma undivided ; capsule 3-celled, eo -seeded, seeds black. — Bulbous. 

 Leaves linear-ensiform. Scape umbellate. Spathe of 3 or 4 bracts. Flowers 

 5 — 20, yellow. [Calliproa Kunth.) 



C. LUTEA Lindl. — Hills, Santa Cruz, to Healdsburg and the Sierra Nevada. 

 A handsome plant, 1 f. Bulb globular. Leaves 1 — 3, as long as the scape, 

 channeled. Segments 6 — 10''^ long, the vein greenish outside. Pedicels 1 — 

 2''. Specimens from the Coast Range have a much smaller flower than those 

 from the interior. April, May. Differs from Subertia chiefly in its stamens. 



BRODIjEA, Smith. (Named for James Brodie, Esq., of Scotland.) 



Perianth funnel- bellform, outer segments narrower ; stamens 6, inserted into 

 the throat of tube, exserted, outer anthers sterile, petaloid, the inner fertile, 

 erect, fixed by the cleft base (shorter than the segments); ovary fusiform, 

 narrowed to the subsessile base ; cells 3, 5 — 7-ovuled, style equalling the 

 stamens, stigmas 3-fid ; capsule substipitate. — Bulbous. Leaves 5, linear, 

 exceeding the scape. Umbel few-flowered. Spathe 2 bracted. Flowers 

 large, violet blue. 



B. GRANDiFLORA Sm., n. macrantha, Torr. Bulb depressed-globous, fibrous- 

 coated ; pedicels stout, divaricate, then erect; flowers 4 — 8, rarely but 1, the 

 inner segments nearly twice broader than the outer, all spreading above. Ste- 

 rile stamens usually longer than the fertile, emarginate, yellowish. — Plains 

 and hills, California. 8 — 18''. Flowers large, varying from l''to V in length, 

 on unequal stalks. 



B. ToRREYi (n. sp.) Bulbo magno, depresso, tunica reticulata instructo ; 

 foliis multo elougatis ; umb. 5 — lO-flora, subradicali v. scapo brevissimo, pedi- 

 culis valde inequalibus ; perianthii segm. suberectis, omnibus obtusis; anth. 

 oblongis, castratis elongatis, bifidis. — Swampy places about Oakland, Napa, to 

 Marysville, &c. Leaves 6 — 10'. Pedicels 3 — 6'. Flowers | inch long. I often 

 saw the live plant, always with the same habits and characters. [B.grandiflora, 

 /?. macropoda Torrey, Bot. Whipp. Rep. 93.) 



B. PARViFLORA Torr. Scape roughish ; umbel 15 — 20-flowered ; pedicels 

 shorter than the flower ; sterile stamens ovate lanceolate, rather acute, entire ; 

 cells of the ovary G — 8-ovuled.— Sierra Nevada. (Torrey, in P. R. R. Rep., ii, 

 125.) V. s. 



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