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Fig. 48. a, MUILLA 

 MARITIMA Wats., 

 stamen, X 16; &, 

 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 

 Jaeinto River, Hall 519; San Diego, T. Brandegee; Blair Valley, e. 

 San Diego Co., Jepson 8701. 



Refs. MUILLA SEROTINA Greene, Pitt. 1:152 (1893), type loe. Los 

 Angeles, Davidson 2052. M. tenuis Congdon, Zoe 5:35 (1901), type 

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



3. M. coronata Greene. (Fig. 48b.) Scape l 1 /^ to 2 

 inches high ; perianth-segments with narrow white scarious 

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

 the anther on a short inflexed slender cusp arising from 

 the notch. 



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. 



15. BLOOMERIA Kell. 



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

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

 membranous 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 BLOOMERIA. 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 % 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, east to the Sierra Nevada of Kern Co. and south to 

 cismontane Southern California. May-June. 



Locs. Paeheco Pass; San Antonio Creek, Monterey Co.; Morro, San Luis Obispo Co., 

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

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

 Orcutt; 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 crocewm 

 Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 218 (1859, at least as early as Sept.), type loe. summit of the 

 mountains e. of San Diego, Parry. Bloomeria aurea Kell. Hesperian, 3:437 (Dec. 1859); 

 Proc. Cal. Acad. 2:11, pi. (1863), type loe. New Idria, Veatch. Nothoscordum aureum Hook, 

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

 loe. 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 1*4 inches long; 

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

 green stripe, linear-elliptic, 3 to 4 lines long ; stamen appendages oblong, entire, 

 obtuse at the summit, adnate to the perianth-segments, only ^ their length ; 

 capsule 2 to 2^2 lines long. 



