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>rarch and Ai>ril, and from May to 

 July :- 



B. Bridges! ( Tritrleia BriiLjesi). — A 

 species closely related to IL laxa, but 

 easily distinguished by its longer 

 and broader blue flowers, with a 

 decided red tinge, as many as ten 

 to twenty blossoms being in an 

 umbel. 



B. califomica (JJ. Aiistrn<f).—A very- 

 fine species, 15 to 18 ins. high, bear- 

 ing loose umbels of ten to twenty-five 

 flowers of a beautiful rose-purple, 

 each spreading funnel-shaped blossom 

 being 1 i to 2 ins. long, and the same 

 in Avidth. Perfect stamens three. 



B. Candida. — This is like J), laxa, 

 but is finer, with large heads of white 

 flowers tinted with pale blue, or in 

 some cases pink, on stout stems. 



B. capitata {Milla capitata). — A 

 beautiful species, Avith narrow linear 

 leaves and fragile stalks 1 to 2 ft. 

 high, bearing umbels of numerous 

 bright lilac or deep violet blooms 

 about April. The variety alba has 

 Avhite flowers. 



B. congesta. — A free-flowering 

 species, with roundish slender leaves 

 and deep violet flowers, six to twelve 

 in an umbel, borne in summer on 

 flexuous scapes 3 to 5 ft. long. There 

 are three fertile stamens alternating 

 with three purple cleft staminodia in 

 the throat of the tube. There is a 

 rare white-flowered form. 



B, crocea. — A small species with 

 very narrow leaves and umbels of 

 yellow flowers borne on slender leaf- 

 less stalks a foot high {(kird. Ckron. 

 1901, 120, f. 39). 



B. Douglasi {Milla and Triteleia 

 gra/i'lijhra).— This fine species seems 

 to be intermediate between /A JloweUi 

 and J>. laxa. It has narrow leaves, and 

 dense umbels of six to twenty beauti- 

 ful bright blue flowers about 1 in. 

 long on the top of a scape U to 2 ft. 

 high. Perfect stamens six, three of 



which are seated on the throat of 

 the tube, the other three reaching 

 nearly half-way up the segments. 

 {Jiot. May. t. G907.) 



B. gracilis {Triteleia firacilis). — A 

 rare and pretty species, with slender 

 leaves, and about a dozen bright 

 yellow flowers, about \ in. long, in an 

 umbel on the top of a scape less than 

 G ins. high. The oblong segments 

 are keeled with brown, and there are 

 six jjcrfect stamens. 



B. grandiflora {llookera coronaria). 

 — This is the original species upon 

 which the genus Broditya was founded 

 by Smith in 1 808. It has linear leaves 

 and bright violet-blue flowers, three 

 to ten in an umbel, on top of a scape 

 about 18 ins. long. The perianth 

 tube is over 1 in. long, with rather 

 longer, oblong, spreading segments 

 and three fertile stamens. B. miiwr 

 comes near this species, but has fewer 

 flowers and shorter scapes. The 

 variety Warei has lilac-rose flowers 

 about 3 ins. long on stems 2 to 2i 

 ft. high. {Bot.Rerj.i.U?>2.) 



B. Hendersoni. — This very rare 

 species comes near B. Bridgesi and 

 B. laxa. The flowers, however, are 

 salmon-yellow striped with purple, 

 and are I to 1 in. long, with bluish 

 anthers to the stamens in the centre. 



B. Howelli {Triteleia Jlowelli). — 

 This is closely related to B. Dourjlasi. 

 It has, however, smaller flowers of a 

 Iteautiful porcelain-white, delicately 

 streaked with blue. The variety 

 lilacina is a far superior plant, having 

 twenty or more funnel-shaped flowers 

 each 1 in. across in an umbel, and of 

 a soft lavender-blue with white seg- 

 ments, {/lot. Mag. t. 6989.) 



B. hyacinthina {Ilesjterocordum 

 h;iacinthinuiii ; 11. Leivisi). — A pretty 

 species having linear leaves and ten 

 to thirty jiurple flowers in an umbel 

 on top of a scape 1 to 2 ft. long. 

 The variety lactea (better known in 



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