286 LILJACEAE 



Tritelia lugens Greene, Bull. Cal. Acad. 2:142 (1886), type loc. Vaca Mts., Greene. Hoolcera 

 ixioides var. lugens Jepson, I.e. ed. 1, 117 (1901). 



7. B. hyacinthina Baker. WHITE BRODIAEA. (Fig. 49f, g.) Scape 1 to 

 1% feet high ; umbel 10 to 40-flowered ; pedicels % to 2 inches long ; perianth 

 open-campanulate,^cleft below the middle, white or bluish white with green mid- 

 veins, 5 to 7 lines long; filaments with broadly triangular and slightly united 

 bases, attenuate above and tipped with an anther % line long; ovary short- 

 stipitate, with 3 glandular pits towards the summit. 



Common in low moist places: Sierra Nevada, Sacramento and San Joaquin 

 valleys, and Coast Ranges from Monterey Co. to Siskiyou Co. North to Van- 

 couver Island. 



Biol. Note. The bulb of this species is very distinctive; it has many coats which, if peeled 

 off, leave a solid center the size of a pea. There are three forms, (a) large wet land form, 

 white-flowered, the bulb large, with offsets, (b) var. lilacina Jepson, flowers lilac, otherwise 

 the same as (a), (c) small dry land form, the bulb without offsets. Carl Purdy. 



Locs. Sierra Nevada: Fort Bidwell, Manning 167; Plumas Co., B. H. Platt; Bear Valley, 

 Nevada Co., Jepson; Placer Co., Carpenter; Tahoe, Jepson 7733 ; Gwin Mine, Calaveras Co., 

 Jepson 1794; Chinese Camp, Jepson 6331; Kaweah River, Hopping 28. Coast Ranges: Eureka, 

 Tracy 1160; Shasta Valley, Butler 1415; Sisson, Jepson; Middle Creek Sta., Shasta Co., 

 Heller 7911; Crane Creek, w. Tehama Co., Jepson; Sweeney Creek, nw. Solano Co., Jepson 

 8256; Vacaville, Jepson; Pajaro hills, Chandler; Milpitas Ranch, Monterey Co., Hall 9980. 



Refs. BRODIAEA HYACINTHINA Baker, Gard. Chron. ser. 3, 20:459 (1896). Hesperoscordum 

 hyacinthinum Lindl. Bot. Reg. sub. t. 1293 (1829), type from the "North-west Coast," Douglas. 

 Tritelia hyaointhina Greene, Bull. Cal. Acad. 2:142 (1886). Hoolcera hyacinthina Ktze. Rev. 

 Gen. 2:712 (1891). H. lewisii Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2:185, t. 198 A (1839). Hesperoscordwm 

 lacteum Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1639 (1833), type from Cal., Douglas. Brodiaea lactea Wats. 

 Proc. Am. Acad. 14:238 (1879). Brodiaea hyacinthina var. lactea Baker, Gard. Chron. ser. 3, 

 20:459 (1896); Jepson Fl. W. Mid. Cal. ed. 2, 102 (1911). Hoolcera hyachinthina var. lactea 

 Jepson, I.e. ed. 1, 118 (1901). Var. LILACINA Jepson. B. lactea var. lilacina Wats. I.e. 239, 

 based on stout plants with large flowers turning more or less to lilac, from Mendocino and 

 Humboldt cos. Tritelia lil-aoina Greene, Bull. Cal. Acad. 2:143 (1886), type loc. Amador Co., 

 Curran (there is no material of this in the University of California Herbarium). Brodiaea 

 lilacina Baker, I.e. 



8. B. terrestris Kell. Scape very short, scarcely rising above the surface of 

 the ground, or altogether subterranean; umbel 2 to 10 (or 20) -flowered, its 

 pedicels slender, 3 to 8 inches long ; perianth purple, 8 to 10 lines long, the limb 

 rotate; anthers slightly longer than the filaments and shorter than the stami- 

 nodia, these yellowish, erect, emarginate and with revolute edges. 



Often in sandy soil, San Diego Co. to Humboldt Co., and near the coast, 

 especially northward. 



Locs. Julian, T. Brandegee; Paso Robles, Barber; Jolon, Brewer 560; Del Monte, Heller 

 ,6773; Crystal Springs Lake, C. F. Balcer 462; Napa Junction, Sonne; Del Mar, Sonoma Co., 

 Kennedy; mouth of Big River, Davy 6580; Ft. Bragg, W. C. Mathews 182; Usal, Jepson 2209; 

 Eureka, Tracy 1159. 



Refs. BRODIAEA TERRESTRIS Kell. Proc. Cal. Acad. 2:6 (1863), type loc. S. S. Bay region. 

 Hoolcera terrestris Greene, Man. Bay Reg. 318 (1894). 



9. B. minor Wats. Scape 4 to 10 inches high ; umbels 4 to 10-flowered, the 

 pedicels % to 1 inch long, tending to spread horizontally after anthesis ; perianth- 

 segments narrow (1 to iy 2 lines broad), nearly twice as long as the tube, the 

 throat constricted or very narrow above the ovary ; staminodia purple, exceeding 

 or equaling the stamens, 3-toothed at apex ; anthers shortly cleft at apex. 



Northern Sierra Nevada from Butte Co.- to Eldorado Co. 



Locs. Prattville, Plumas Co., A. L. Coombs; Sutton House, Butte Co., B. M. Austin; 

 Bear Valley, Nevada Co., Jepson; Colma, Eldorado Co., K. Brandegee; Pleasant Valley near 

 Placerville, ace. Purdy. 



Refs. BRODIAEA MINOR Wats. Proc, Am. Acad. 14:236 (1879). B. grandiflora var. minor 

 Benth. PI. Hartw. 340 (1857), type loc. n. Sierra Nevada foothills, Hartweg 302. Watson 

 had before him Hartweg 's 302 and this we take as the type. It is not the B. minor of Cali- 

 fornia botanists but is Brodiaea purdyi Eastw. Proe. Cal. Acad, ser. 2, 6:427, pi. 58 (1896), 

 type loc. Colfax, Purdy. Hoolcera purdyi Heller, Muhl. 6:83 (1910). 



