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10. B. stellaris Wats. Scape very short (2 to 6 inches high) and pedicels 

 long (li/2 to 4 inches) ; corm flat, without offsets; umbel 3 to 6-flowered; perianth 

 6 to 9 lines long, the greenish narrow tube nearly equaling the deep-purple 

 rather narrow segments; anthers subsessile, the short filaments bearing two ap- 

 pendages or linear-oblong wings standing directly behind and % to % as long 

 as the anthers; anthers l l / 2 lines long, shorter than the staminodia; staminodia 

 large, conspicuously white, retuse, apparently erect and not approximate around 

 the style. 



Mendocino Range; occurs longitudinally for about 20 miles (Carl Purdy). 



Eefs. BRODIAEA STELLARIS Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 17:381 (1882), type loc. Gould's Ranch 

 in the mountains sw. of Ukiah, Purdy. Hookeria stellaris Greene, Bull. Gal. Acad. 2:137 

 (1886). A distinctive species with strong technical characters re-collected only near Orr's 

 Sprs., Berg fried. 



11. B. rosea Baker. (Fig. 50a-d.) Scape slender, 3 to 5 inches high; bulb 

 depressed ovate with heavily fibrous coat, 6 to 12 lines broad; umbel 3 to 10- 

 flowered, its pedicels ^2 to 1 inch long; perianth 10 lines long, flesh pink (be- 

 coming rose-pink in age or in drying), the midveins darker; perianth-segments 

 oblong-ovate, acute; filaments narrow but backed by a deltoid-dilated wing; 

 anthers hugging the style, deeply and narrowly notched both at base and apex ; 

 staminodia long-oblong, notched at the acutish apex, exceeding the anthers and 

 closely approximate about them by their strongly involute margins. 



Northeastern Lake Co., on the serpentine rocks. 



Locs. Indian Valley, ne. Lake Co., Jepson 8985; Epperson Mt., ace. Purdy. 

 Eefs. BKODIAEA ROSEA Baker, Gard. Chron. ser. 3, 20:214, fig. 39 (1896). HooTcera rosea 

 Greene, Bull. Cal. Acad. 2:137 (1886), type loc., Hough's Springs, Lake Co., Curran. 



12. B. coronaria Jepson. HARVEST BRODIAEA. (Fig. 50e-g.) Scape stout, 

 (5 or) 7 to 20 inches high; umbel 3 to 11-flowered, its pedicels 1 to 3y 2 inches 

 long; perianth violet-purple, l 1 /^ to 1% inches long; segments narrowly oblong, 

 longer than the tube, in age withering and becoming caudate; anthers 4 to 5 

 lines long, exceeding or at least equaling the oblong-lanceolate mostly acute 

 staminodia ; staminodia erect, the anthers approximate in center around style ; 

 ovary with strongly developed angles or shoulders. 



Common on rolling plains, in the foothills and mountains, Coast Ranges and 

 Sierra Nevada foothills, Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys, south to cismon- 

 tane Southern California; north to Vancouver Island; flowering in May and 

 early June at the time of the hay harvest when the hills and fields are turning 

 brown. Altitude 200 to 2500 feet, or up to 4500, or even 8000 feet towards the 

 south. Rarely occurs near the coast. 



Loes. Sierra Nevada: Iron Canon, Butte Co., E. M. Austin 27; Grass Valley, Heller 8097; 

 Bear Valley, Nevada Co., Jepson; lone, Braunton 1009; Clements, Jepson 1822; Columbia, 

 Jepson 6395; Confidence, Jepson 7712; Strawberry, Tuolumne Co., Elizabeth Perry; Tenaya 

 Creek, Jepson 4386; Hetch Hetchy, Jepson 3474, 4623; Coulterville grade, Jepson; Huntington 

 Lake, Fresno Co., A. L. Grant 1092; Mineral King, Jepson 1153. San Joaquin Valley: Collis, 

 Jepson 2744. Southern California: San Bernardino Mts., Parish 1660. Coast Ranges: Yreka, 

 Butler 1421; Redwood Creek, Hupa road, Jepson 1960; Bear Valley, w. Colusa Co., Jepson 

 8971; Mendocino Range, Jepson 7628; Windsor, Jepson 7655; Mt. St. Helena, Jepson 7665; 

 Howell Mt. foothills, Jepson 2434 ; Sweeney Creek, nw. Solano Co., Jepson 9053 ; Vacaville, 

 Jepson 4237; Napa, Jepson; Sonoma Creek Canon, M. S. Baker; Benicia Hills, Jepson 8324; 

 Berkeley, Helen Berg fried; Mt. Diablo, Jepson 7599; Niles, Jepson; Madrona, Santa Clara 

 Co., Jepson; Mt. Hamilton, Holden; Jolon, K. Brandegee. 



Var. mundula Jepson n. var. Fifteen to 18 inches high; pedicels 3 to 6 or 8 lines long. 

 (Plantae unc. 15-18 altae; umbella compacta; pediculi lin. 3-6 vel 8 longi.) Soulsbyville, 

 Tuolumne Co., Jepson 7683 (type). A trim tall plant with very compact umbels. 



Refs. BRODIAEA CORONARIA Jepson, Madrono, 1:61 (1917). Hookera coronaria Salisb. 

 Parad. t. 98 (1806), type loc. Cal., first collected by Menzies; Britten, Jour. Bot. 24:51 (1883) ; 

 Greene, Bull. Cal. Acad. 2:136 (1886); Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 116 (1901). Brodiaea 

 grandiflora Smith, Trans. Linn. Soc. 10:2 (1811), type from Vancouver Isl., Menzies; Lindl. 



