288 LJLIACEAE 



Bot. Reg. t. 1183 (1828); Wats. Bot. CaL 2:153 (1880); Jepson, I.e. ed. 2, 100 (1911). 

 Var. MUNDULA Jepson. 



13. B. filifolia Wats. Scape 4 to 12 inches high, rather slender, especially 

 when several arise from 1 corm ; perianth dark blue, segments rotate ; anthers 

 sessile, nearly twice as long as the scale-like triangular narrowly acuminate 

 staminodia. 



San Bernardino Valley and foothills. 



Locs. San Bernardino, Parish 3669; Arrowhead Hot Sprs., Parish. 



Var. orcuttil Jepson n. comb. Perianth violet to rose-purple ; anthers generally longer than 

 the filaments ; staminodia absent, or very short, triangular and mostly adnate. San Diego Co. : 

 San Diego, T. Brandegee; Santa Isabel, Parish 4413. 



Kefs. BRODIAEA FILIFOLIA Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 17:381 (1882), type loc. San Bernardino, 

 S. B. $ W. F. Parish. Hookera filifolia Greene, Bull. CaL A,ead. 2:138 (1886). Var. ORCUTTII 

 Jepson. Hookera orcuttii Greene, I.e., type loc. San Diego, Orcutt. Brodiaea orcuttii Baker, 

 l.c. fig. 40. Hookera multipedunculata Abrams, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 32:537 (1905), type 

 loc. Cuyamaca Lake, Abrams 3897. 



14. B. synandra Jepson n. comb. (Fig. 50h.) Scape slender, 3 to 8 inches 

 high ; umbel 2 to 5-flowered ; its pedicels 1 to 2 l / 2 inches long ; perianth blue, 7 

 to 12 lines long, its tube oblong or even slightly inflated, 4 to 5 lines long, the 

 segments 1 to 2 lines longer, rotately spreading or often strongly recurved, each 

 with a mid-vein, green on back and running down to base of perianth ; anthers 

 2 to 21/2 lines long, close around the style ; staminodia broadly ligulate or with 

 somewhat involute margins, commonly 3-toothed at apex, usually closely covering 

 the anthers and closing the throat ; ovary with weakly developed shoulders. 



Dry adobe or clay soil, often on gravelly or alkaline plains and low hills, 

 Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys, Sierra Nevada foothills and Coast Ranges, 

 south to cismontane Southern California and north to Oregon. Altitude 200 to 

 2500 feet, sometimes occurring up to 3500 or 7000 feet, especially southward. 

 Not reported from Humboldt and Mendocino cos. The anthers have an open or 

 U-shaped notch at apex ; in B. coronaria the anthers are merely cleft at apex. 



Tax. Note. This widely distributed species is the B. minor of Cal. authors and of Wats, 

 in part. It is entirely distinct from the original B. minor Wats. (B. purdyi Eastw.), which is 

 restricted to the northern Sierra Nevada. The first available name for the former species is 

 Hookera synandra Heller, the diagnosis of which answers well to B. minor of Cal. authors, 

 especially as to the anthers and position of staminodia. We have not, however, seen Heller 's 

 type, nor were we able to collect topotypes when visiting the type locality. 



Locs. Oro Fino, Siskiyou Co., Butler 891; Modoe Co., M. S. Baker; Stevens, Shasta Co., 

 M. S. Baker 358; Santa Rosa, K. Brandegee (filaments deltoid-dilated) ; Vacaville, Jepson 

 4238; Milton, Davy 1346; Tollhouse, Fresno Co., Hall $ Chandler 22; San Miguelito Rancho, 

 Jolon, Jepson 1645; Little Green Valley, San Bernardino Mts., G. E. Hall 23; Strawberry 

 Valley, Mt. San Jacinto, Hall 2093; Santa Ana Mts., Alice King; San Diego, Dunn; Laguna 

 Mts., San Diego Co., T. Brandegee. 



Var. insignis Jepson n. var. Staminodia straw-color or whitish, ovate-lanceolate, 3% to 

 4 lines long, longer than the stamens, and as long as the perianth-tube. (Staminodia ovato- 

 lanceolata, straminea vel albida, lin. 3% -4 longa, stamina superantia, aeque longa ac tubus 

 perianthii.) Shepherd Cove, Sequoia Park, Walter Fry (type). 



Refs. BRODIAEA SYNANDRA Jepson. Hookera synandra Heller, Bull. S. Cal. Acad. 2:65 

 (1903), type loc. Petrified Forest, Sonoma Co., Heller 5742. H. minor Greene, Man. Bay Reg. 

 318 (1894); Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 115 (1901). Brodiaea minor Jepson l.c. ed. 2, 100 

 (1911); Wats. Bot Cal. 2:153 (1880), in part. Var. INSIGNIS Jepson. 



15. B. californica Lindl. Slender, 4 to 12 inches high; umbels 2 to 4- 

 flowered (sometimes as few as 1 or as many as 12-flowered) ; perianth violet- 

 purple, 1 to 1% inches long, the tube y 3 as long; band on back of segments 

 yellowish-green; anthers long, approximate in center on filaments as long, and 

 closely invested by the staminodia; staminodia white, involute, obtuse, shortly 

 cleft, very slightly surpassing the anthers, commonly both very long, nearly as 

 long as the perianth. 



Alkaline flats: Sonoma and Napa cos.; Sacramento Valley (no exact station 

 known). 



