644 LILIACEZ BRODIEZA 
on rocky hillsides. California to Brit. Columbia. 
B. multiflora Benth. Pl. Hartw. 339. Scape 1-2 feet high, somewhat 
scabrous: umbel not produced ; staminodia entire, broad and obtuse, about 
equalling the anthers: seeds several in each cell. From the Sacramento 
valley to Oregon. 
* * Flowers subcapitate; the segments little longer than the tube, 
stamens 6, the inner with a free lanceolate appendage on each side; 
the outer ones naked. . 
B. capitata Benth. 1. c. Scapes 1-2 feet high: leaves a foot long or 
more, sometimes longer than the scape, 2-10 lines wide, carinate, usually 
glaucous: flowers few to many, nearly sessile or on pedicels 2-6 lines long: 
perianth rather broadly funnelform, 6-10 lines long, from blue or purple 
to white: inner anthers nearly sessile, linear, 2 lines long, slightly shorter 
than the oblong-lanceolate appendages; the outer smaller, on short naked 
filaments broadly dilated at base: capsule ovoid, sessile, about 3 lines long, 
beaked by the slender style nearly as long: seeds several in each cell, 2 
lines long. On dry open ridges, southern Oregon to California. 
§ 2 Trireiia Lindl. Bot. Reg. as genus. Segments of the 
perianth equalling or shorter than the tube. Stamens in 2 rows. 
with more or less distinctly versatile anthers. Capsule stipitatet 
B. Douglasii Watson |. c. Tritelia grandiflora Lindl. Scape 1-3 fee 
high, smooth, erect and usually stout: leaves 15-18 inches long, 2-8 line 
wide, carinate: umbel subcapitate, usually many flowered : pedicels 1-17 
lines long: perianth 8-12 lines long, dark blue; the tube subsaccate at base» 
about as long as the ovate obtuse lobes: anthers oblong, a line long, the 
lower 3 inserted on the throat opposite the outer segments attached near 
the base and erect on very short filaments; the upper 3 inserted on the 
inner segments, attached near the middle and versatile on short free fila- 
ments which form below prominent wings within the tube: style slender, 
about 3 lines long: capsule ovoid, about 4 lines long, on a stipe nearly as 
long: seeds several in each cell. On sandy plains, eastern Oregon and 
Washington to Wyoming and Utah. a 
B. Howellii Watson 1. c. 301. Scape 1-3 feet high: leaves 8-12 inches 
long, 1-4 lines broad: umbel raga ew-flowered subcapitate: flowers 
white with light blue base to light blue, 8-10 lines long; the broad tube 
longer than the oblong-ovate obtuse lobes: stamens in 2 rows, the lower 
inserted on the throat opposite the 3 outer segments, on very short deltoid 
filaments, the Epter inserted at the base of the inner segments, with 
broadly winged filaments about 2 lines long; anthers all attached near the 
middle, nearly 2 lines long: capsule oblong, attenuate upward into the 
style, the cells about 6-seeded. On dry plains, eastern Washington and 
Oregon near the base of the Cascade Mountains. 
3 CALLIPRORA Stamens in 1 row, with deltoid or wing-dilat- 
ed filaments and versatile anthers. Capsule stipitate. 
B. lactea Watson 1. c. 238, Scape usually slender, 1-5 feet high, 
smooth or scabrous: leaves 6-8 inches long 2-6 lines wide: umbel subcapi- 
tate, few- to many-flowered: pedicels 44-2 inches long: perianth white with 
green mid-nerve, 4-8 lines long, the short and broad tube not half as long 
as the oblong obtuse segments: stamens in one row, inserted on the base 
of the segments, with broad deltoid filaments and short anthers attached 
a little below the iniddle: style slender, 3-4 lines long: capsule subglobose, 
on a stipe 1-2 lines long. Common in wet places and moist meadows, 
California to Brit. Columbia and Idaho. 
B. Bridgesii Watson 1. c.237 Scape slender, 6-18 inches high: leaves 
