BRODIZA LILIACEA 643 
A. simillimam Henderson Bull. Torr. Bot. Club xxvii, 355. Scape 
1-2 inches high from the ovoid bulb, slender, flattened and very narrowly 
winged: leaves 4-5 inches long, less than a line wide, faleate to recurved: 
bracts of the spathe broadly ovate, acute or acutish: umbel 6-9-flowered: 
pedicels slender, 1-2 lines long: segments of the perianth narrowly oblong, 
obtuse, delicately denticulate with spreading papilla half way OP et. 
white with strong green midnerve, VaY longer than the stamens: filaments 
dilated at base and adnate for 4% their length: ovary slightly crested. On 
Sesesh Peak, Idaho. 
2 BRODIAA Smith Trans. Linn. Soc. x, 2. Inciuding 
HOOKERA Salisb. and TRITELIA Lindl. 
Perennial herbs with slender scapes from fibromembranaceous- 
coated corms bearing a several-bracted umbel of few to many blue, 
_ purple, white, or yellow flowers on jointed pedicels. Perianth 
persistent, funnelform, often narrowly so, not contracted at the 
throat nor saccate, or but slightly so, at base. Segments of the 
perianth one-nerved. Stamens 3, inserted on the throat opposite 
the inner segments and alternate with as many staminodia, or six 
in one or two rows with the filaments naked or appendaged. 
Style persistent, about equalling the anthers, with short diverg- 
ing entire stigmas. Ovary three-celled, with 3-8 ovules in each 
cell. Capsule ovate to oblong, more or less attenuate above. . 
Seeds angled, black. 
§ 1 Evusroprma Watson Proc. Am. Acad. xiv, 236. Peri- 
anth broadly furmnelform, the tube mostly shorter than the limb, 
Stamens in onerow. Anthers attached by the base. 
* Segments of the perianth 2-3 times longer than the tube: stamens 
3, alternate with as many staminodia. 
te grandiflora Smith Trans. Linn. Soc. x, 2. Scape smooth,' 3-10 Cena Qhs. 
inches high: leaves about a line broad, thick and somewhat terete, about | 
as long as tne stem: pedicels 1-10 or more, 4-3 inches long: perianth ed at. 
varying from purple to light rose-colur, 10-20 lines long: segments of the 
perianth linear-odlong, obtuse or acutish, strongly l-nerved: filaments 
rather slender, 1-2 lines long, the anthers twice as long: staminodia ligu- 
late, entire, obtuse, whitish about equalling the anthers: cap-ule ses-ile, 
narrowed at base, oblong, attenuate into the short rigid style; cells 6-8- 
seeded: seeds'a line long. Common in open places, California to British 
Columbia. 
B. puinor Watson Proc. Am. Acad. xiv, 286. Scapes very slender, Cerwme2l- 
3-6 inches high, smooth, bearing an umbel of 2-6 rays an inch or two long: Kone Io. 
per anth 7-14 lines long; anthers oblong 2 lines long shorter than the 
broad!v ligulate usually emarginate staminodia: capsule obovoid, sessile 
or nearly so, 3 lines long, acute, the cells 3-seeded: seeds a line long. 
Oregon to California. 
B. congesta Smith |. c. 3, t. 1. Scapes slender, 2-4 feet high, smooth: 
leaves carinate, glaucous, 6-18 inches long, 4-9 lines wide: umbel densely 
few- to many flowered, often produced into a short dense raceme: pedicels 
_ 1-3 lines long: perianth 8-10 lines long, bluish-purple, the oblong lanceo- 
late segments twice as long as the tube: anthers very nearly sessile, deeply 
emarginate at each end, 2-3 lines long: staminodia deeply cleft, exceeding 
the anthers: ca sule sessile, ovate, 5 lines long including the short thick 
style: cells several-ovuled, usually 1-seeded: seed 2 lines long. Common 
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