Lily Family 87 



1. B. capitata Benth. Scape 1.5-5 dm. high, very tortuous, 

 not rarely twining; leaves about equaling the scape carinate; 

 bracts purple, darker than the flowers ; flowers several, capitate 

 clustered on short pedicels 12 mm. long or less ; perianth tube 

 funnelform, shorter than the segments; appendages connivent, 

 forming a corona. 



Common on the plains and foothills. March-May. 



7. HOOKEBA Salisb. 



Scapes erect straight from a fibrous coated corm, with 

 few linear leaves and a solitary umbel subtended by 

 several membranous bracts. Perianth tube thick turbi- 

 nate, segments equaling the tube spreading at the tip. 

 Stamens 3 opposite the inner segments, the outer stamens 

 being reduced to staminodia. 



1. H. minor (Benth.) Britton. Scape slender, 5-15 cm. high ; 

 pedicels 2-5, mostly 2-5 cm. long; perianth about 3 cm. long, 

 violet-purple or paler, its limb rotate, the segments with a strong 

 mid vein, the outer narrower mucronulate ; anthers 4-6 mm. long, 

 shorter than the retuse or emarginate staminodia. (Brodiaea 

 minor Wats. 



Occasional in heavy soil. March-April. 



8. TBITELEIA Dougl. 



Scapes slender from a fibrous coated corm, with few 

 thin linear leaves and bearing an umbel of yellow, white, 

 blue or purple flowers. Perianth tube rather short or 

 funnelform, not inflated angular or saccate ; the seg- 

 ments erect or spreading. Stamens 6 unappendaged, all 

 antheriferous ; anthers versatile or basifixed. Ovary on 

 a slender stipe. 



1. T. laxa Benth. Scape 3-6 dm. high ; umbel 10-30-flowered ; 

 pedicels 3-6 cm. long; perianth 3-4 cm. long, funnelform, violet, 

 cleft nearly to the middle; anthers versatile, ovate-lanceolate, 

 2-lobed at base, bluish or white. (Brodiaea laxa Wats.) 



On low hills, Los Felis, Davidson. 



