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Pacific 3:132 (1854), type loc. Calaveras Co., Wm. A. Davidson. Hoolcera volubilis Jepson, 

 Fl. W. Mid. Gal. ed. 1, 116 (1901). Dichelostemma volubilis Heller, Bull. S. Cal. Acad. 2:65 

 (1903). Stropholirion californicum Torr. Pac. E. Rep. 4:149, pi. 23 (1856), type loe. Knight's 

 Ferry, Bigelow. Brodiaea californiea Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. ed. 2, 101 (1911) (not Lindl.). 

 The final test for the acceptance of the specific name volubilis as the first designation of 

 this species rests upon the argument that Macroscapa volubilis Kell. was adequately published, 

 first because the "Pacific" was a legitimate medium of publication, being a weekly magazine 

 of "religion, education and general intelligence," paged in sequence for the whole volume 

 (and not as a newspaper paged afresh for each issue), and secondly that the species was 

 technically characterized in full. 



20. B. ida-maia Greene. FIRE-CRACKER PLANT. 'Scape slender, erect, 1 to 

 3 feet high, bearing an umbel 6 to 12 (or 23) -flowered, its pedicels % to 1% 

 inches long ; flowers pendulous, erect after anthesis ; leaves linear ; perianth-tube 

 scarlet, persistent, broadly tubular, slightly 6-saccate at the truncate base, slightly 

 constricted above, 1 to 1*4 inches long; segments chrome-green, short, erect or 

 sometimes reflexed or revolute, erect in age, 2 to 3 lines long; stamens 3, inserted 

 on the throat opposite the inner segments, their filaments very short and broad ; 

 anthers innate ; staminodia 3, white ; capsule triangular-ovate, acuminate, its stipe 

 2 or 3 lines long ; seeds angular, black. 



Wooded foothills and mountain slopes from Marin Co. to Shasta and Siskiyou 

 cos., 1000 to 4000 feet. July. A showy and curious species. 



Biol. Note. An apparent hybrid between B. ida-maia and B. pulchella was found at 

 Buck Mt., Humboldt Co., ace. *J. P. Tracy. B. ida-maia differs from most other Brodiaeas in 

 propagating by slender offsets from the corm, and from all others in its pendulous flowers, 

 scarlet perianth and strongly revolute perianth-segments. Plants with the flowers all yellow 

 have been found in the hills east of Eureka by Carl Purdy. 



Locs. Elk Mt., Lake Co., Jepson; Comptche, H. A. Walker 335; Cahto, Mendocino Co., 

 Davy 6615; South Fork Eel River, Lake Co., Jepson; Buck Mt.. Tracy 4227; Brannan Mt., 

 Tracy 3438; Three Creeks to Redwood Creek, Jepson 2132; Highland Mine, Siskiyou Co., 

 Butler 889; between Anderson and Olinda, ace. Alma Ames. 



Refs. BRODIAEA IDA-MAIA Greene, Pitt. 2:250 (1892). Brevoortia ida-maia Wood, Proc. 

 Acad. Phila. 20:173 (1868), type loc. Trinity Mts., Shasta Co., Wood. Brevoortia coccinea 

 Wats. Proc. Am. Aead. 14:239 (1879) ; Baker, Gard. Chron. 20:687, fig. 118 (1896). Dichelo- 

 stemma ida-maia Greene, Man. Bay Reg. 318 (1894). 



21. B. venusta Jepson n. comb. Similar to B. ida-maia but the perianth 

 rose-purple, constricted under the segments ; staminodia pinkish, longer than the 

 anthers. 



Mendocino Range. Little known ; in great need of further study. 



Loe. Near Orrs Hot Sprs., Helen Berg fried. 



Refs. BRODIAEA VENUSTA Jepson. Brevoortia venusta Greene, Pitt. 2:230 (1892), do- 

 scribed from a cultivated plant, its geographic origin unknown. Mr. Carl Purdy considers 

 it to be a hybrid between B. ida-maia and B. congesta (cf. Pitt. 2:249). It is to be inferred 

 from his note that it also occurs near Cahto. 



Bessera Schult. Scape from a tunicated bulb and bearing a few-flowered 

 umbel. Stamens 6, inserted on the throat of the 6-cleft perianth, the filaments 

 united above the middle into a tube with erect bifid lobes alternate with the 

 anthers. Style 1. Capsule 3-angled. B. BREVIFLORA Jepson n. comb. (Andro- 

 stephiitm Ireviflorum Wats. Am. Nat. 7 :303, 1873, type loc. s. Utah, Thomp- 

 son}. Flowers light purple. Fort Mohave, Arizona, Cooper, and therefore to 

 be expected within our limits. 



17. CALOCHORTUS Pursh. MARIPOSA LILY 



Stem from a membranous-coated corm. Leaves narrow, the basal solitary or 

 rarely 2, the cauline few. Flowers showy, white, yellow, lilac or bluish, borne 

 terminally on the stem or branches or in an umbellate fascicle. Perianth de- 

 ciduous, the segments distinct and often concave. Sepals lanceolate, greenish 

 or colored. Petals for the most part broadly cuneate-obovate and usually bearing 

 near the base a conspicuous gland, either on the surface or depressed in an 



