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Locs. Lake Tenaya, Hall 4" Babcock 3523; Conness Creek, Tuolumne Canon, Jepson 3359, 

 4482; Tamarack Flat, Mariposa Co., Jepson 8350; El Capitan, Yosemite, Jepson 4361. 



Eefs. BRODIAEA GRACILTS Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 14:238 (1879), type loc. Spanish Peak, 

 Plumas Co., E. M. Austin. Tritelia gracilis Greene, Bull. Cal. Acad. 2:141 (1886). Hookera 

 gracilis Ktze. Eev. Gen. 2:712 (1891). 



5. B. crocea Wats. (Fig. 49c.) Scape 4 to 12 inches high; leaves 2 to 6 

 lines broad ; bracts linear, elongated ; umbels 4 to 8 or 15-flowered ; flowers golden 

 or bright yellow, 7 to 9 lines long, on pedicels 3 to 9 lines long, the segments a 

 little longer than the turbinate tube ; filaments nearly equaling anthers, in 2 rows ; 

 ovary obovate, shorter than the stipe, its angles with a very narrow band of 

 short hairs or scales. 



Western Siskiyou Co. and Del Norte Co., 5000 to 7000 feet. 



Locs. Humbug Mt., Siskiyou Co., Butler 786; Shackelford Canon, Marble Mt., Chandler 

 1695 ; near Preston Peak, Jepson 2877. 



Eefs. BRODIAEA CKOCEA Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 14:238 (1879). Seubertia crocea Wood, 

 Proc. Acad. Phila. 20:172 (1868), type loe. Yreka, Wood. Tritelia crocea Greene, Bull. Cal. 

 Acad. 2:141 (1886). Hoolcera crocea Ktze. Eev. Gen. 2:712 (1891). 



BRODIAEA MODESTA Hall (Univ. Cal. Pub. Bot. 6:166, 1915, type loc. Castle Lake, Sis- 

 kiyou Co., J. J. Condit). This interesting and curious plant is closely related to B. crocea. 

 It is like B. crocea in habit, and its flowers in size and in detail of parts are like those of 

 that species or essentially so, even to the line of pubescence on the angles of the ovary; it 

 differs from B. crocea in its pale or violet-blue perianth. It (with any other associated 

 Brodiaea species) should be studied in its region and re-collected in a full series of specimens. 

 It seems identical with B. crocea and yet it would be rather unusual for a yellow species to 

 throw a blue flower. 



6. B. ixioides Wats. GOLDEN -BBODIAEA. (Fig. 49d, e.) Scape % to 1^ 

 feet high, usually scabrous ; leaves 2, 7 to 14 inches long ; umbel 16 to 40-flowered ; 

 pedicels % or mostly 1 to 4 inches long; flowers 7 to 11 lines long, salmon-yellow, 

 with a conspicuous black-purple vein on the outside running from the apex to 

 the base of each segment; stamens yellow, alternately long and short, the fila- 

 ments winged, slenderly 2-forked at the summit, the oblong anthers on a cusp 

 in the notch ; forks of the filament a little exceeding or somewhat shorter than 

 the anthers. 



Higher foothills of the Sierra Nevada from Tuolumne Co. to Kern Co., 1300 

 to 5000 feet, common and often abundant ; also in Monterey and San Benito cos. 

 and Tehama Co. 



Locs. Coast Eanges: Carmel Eiver Valley, Ferguson 256; San Juan, San Benito Co., Alma 

 Ames; Manzanita Flat, w. Tehama Co., Jepson. Sierra Nevada: Butte Co., foothills ace. 

 Boerker; Columbia, Tuolumne Co., Jepson 6303; Crockers, Big Oak Flat road, Jepson 8349; 

 Yosemite, Jepson 4282; Kin.-ley, Mariposa Co., Charlotte M. Hook; Dinkey Grove, Fresno Co., 

 A. L. Grant 1196; Dunlap, Fresno Co., Jepson 2756; Colony Mill, Marble Fork, Kaweah Eiver, 

 Jepson 641; Nelson, Middle Tule Eiver, Jepson 4867; Caliente, Heller 7623. 



Var. lugens Jepson. Generally smaller and more slender; filaments broadly winged, merely 

 emarginate or retuse at apex, the alternate ones triangular-acuminate; anthers white or blue; 

 perianth-tube dark brown, approaching black. Sandy slopes, Sierra Nevada, 6000 to 8000 feet; 

 North Coast Eanges, towards the interior, 2400 feet. 



Locs. Sierra Nevada: Long Lake, Plumas Co., Hall 9350; Tallae, C. J. Fox Jr.; Calaveras 

 Big Trees, A. L. Grant ; Little Yosemite, Jepson 3151 ; Seavy Pass, Yosemite Park, Jepson 

 4515 ; Lake Merced, Jepson 4406 ; Miami Lodge, Mariposa Co., Jepson 8399 ; Bear Creek, 

 Fresno Co., Hall $ Chandler 420 ; Hockett Mdws., Tulare Co., Hall $ Bdbcock 5601. North 

 Coast Eanges: Howell Mt., Tracy 1450; Vaca Mts., E. H. Platt. 



Eefs. BRODIAEA IXIOIDES Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 14:238 (1879); Jepson, FL W. Mid. Cal. 

 ed. 2, 101 (1911). Ornithogalum ixioides Ait. f. Hort. Kew. 2:257 (1811), type from Cal., 

 Menzies, undoubtedly collected at Monterey. Tritelia ixioides Greene, Bull. Cal. Acad. 2:142 

 (1886). Hoolcera ixioides Ktze. Eev. Gen. 2:712 (1891). Calliprora lutea Lindl. Bot. Eeg. 

 t. 1590 (1833) ; Hook. Bot Mag. t. 3588. The scapes in the typical form are often more or 

 less scabrous and therefore we cite here: Calliprora scabra Greene, Erythea 3:126 (1895), type 

 loc. middle Sierra Nevada; Brodiaea scabra Baker, Gard. Chron. ser. 3, 20:459 (1896). Calli- 

 prora scabra var. aniUna Greene, I.e., type loc. middle Sierra Nevada. C. analina Heller, Muhl. 

 2:14 (1905) ; ef. Muhl. 5:91 (1909). Var. LUGENS Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. ed. 2, 101 (1911). 



