BBODLA 



THE BULB BOOK 



BRODLEA 



March and April, and from May to 

 July : 



B. Bridges! (Triteleia Bridged}. A 

 species closely related to B. laxa, but 

 easily distinguished by its longer 

 and broader blue flowers, with a 

 decided red tinge, as many as ten 

 to twenty blossoms being in an 

 umbel. 



B. californica (B. Amtinae).K very 

 fine species, 15 to 18 ins. high, bear- 

 ing loose umbels of ten to twenty-five 

 flowers of a beautiful rose-purple, 

 each spreading funnel-shaped blossom 

 being Ij to 2 ins. long, and the same 

 in width. Perfect stamens three. 



B. Candida. This is like B. laxa, 

 but is finer, with large heads of white 

 flowers tinted with pale blue, or in 

 some cases pink, on stout stems. 



B. capitata (Milla capitata). A 

 beautiful species, with narrow linear 

 leaves and fragile stalks 1 to 2 ft. 



which are seated on the throat of 

 the tube, the other three reaching 

 nearly half-way up the segments. 

 (Bot. Mag. t. 6907.) 



B. gracilis (Triteleia gracilis). A 

 rare and pretty species, with slender 

 leaves, and about a dozen bright 

 yellow flowers, about in. long, in an 

 umbel on the top of a scape less than 

 6 ins. high. The oblong segments 

 are keeled with brown, and there are 

 six perfect stamens. 



B. grandiflora (Hookera coronaria). 

 This is the original species upon 

 which the genus Brodiaea was founded 

 by Smith in 1 808. It has linear leaves 

 and bright violet-blue flowers, three 

 to ten in an umbel, on top of a scape 

 about 18 ins. long. The perianth 

 tube is over 1 in. long, with rather 

 longer, oblong, spreading segments 

 and three fertile stamens. B. minor 

 comes near this species, but has fewer 



high, bearing umbels of numerous flowers and shorter scapes. The 

 bright lilac or deep violet blooms variety Warei has lilac-rose flowers 

 about April. The variety alba has about 3 ins. long on stems 2 to 2| 

 white flowers. 



B. congesta. A 



free-flowering 



ft. high. (Bot. Reg. t. 1183.) 



B. Henderson!. This very rare 



species, with roundish slender leaves species comes near B. Bridges*, and 



and deep violet flowers, six to twelve B. laxa. The flowers, however, are 



in an umbel, borne in summer on 



flexuous scapes 3 to 5 ft. long. There 



are three fertile stamens alternating 



with three purple cleft staminodia in 



the throat of the tube. There is a 



rare white-flowered form. 



B. crocea. A small species with 



very narrow leaves and umbels of streaked with blue. The variety 



yellow flowers borne on slender leaf- lilacina is a far superior plant, having 



twenty or more funnel-shaped flowers 

 each 1 in. across in an umbel, and of 



salmon-yellow striped with purple, 

 and are ^ to 1 in. long, with bluish 

 anthers to the stamens in the centre. 

 B. Howelli (Triteleia Howelli). 

 This is closely related to B. Douglasi. 

 It has, however, smaller flowers of a 

 beautiful porcelain -white, delicately 



less stalks a foot high (Gard. Chron. 

 1901, 126, f. 39). 

 B. Douglas! (Milla and Triteleia 



a soft lavender-blue with white seg- 



grandiflora) This fine species seems ments. (Bot. Mag. t. 6989.) 

 to be intermediate between B. Howelli B. hyacinthina (Hesperocordum 



and B. laxa. It has narrow leaves, and hyacinthinum ; II.Lewisi). A pretty 



dense umbels of six to twenty beauti- species having linear leaves and ten 



ful bright blue flowers about 1 in. to thirty purple flowers in an umbel 



long on the top of a scape 1^ to 2 ft. on top of a scape 1 to 2 ft. long, 



high. Perfect stamens six, three of The variety lactea (better known in 



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