154 LILIACE^E. Brodicea. 



or 9 lines long, the oblong-lanceolate segments twice longer than the tube : anthers 

 very nearly sessile, deeply emarginate at each end, 2 to 3 lines long : staminodia 

 deeply cleft, exceeding the anthers : capsule sessile, ovate, 5 lines long including the 

 short thick style ; cells several-ovuled, usually 1 -seeded : seed 2 lines long. Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. x. 3, t. 1 ; Baker, 1. c. 377. Dichelostemma congestum, Kunth, Enum. 

 iv. 470; Wood, 1. c. 173. 



From San Francisco to Washington Territory, common. 



5. B. multiflora, Benth. Much resembling the last, but the corm less deeply 

 seated, and flowering a month or two earlier : scape a foot or two high, somewhat 

 scabrous ; umbel not produced : staminodia entire, broad and obtuse, about equalling 

 the anthers : seeds several in each cell. PI. Hartw. 339 ; Baker, 1. c. ; Hook. f. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 5989. B. parviflora, Torr. & Gray, Pacif. R Rep. ii. 125 ; Wood. 1. c. 

 172. B. grandiflora, var. brachypoda, Torr., same, iv. 149. 



From the Sacramento Valley to Oregon, and in the Sierra Nevada. 



t- +- Stamens 6, the inner with a free lanceolate appendage on each side, the 

 outer ones naked : flowers subcapitare ; segments little longer than the tube. 



6. B. capitata, Benth. Leaves a foot long or more, 2 to 10 lines wide, cari- 

 nate, usually glaucous : scape a foot or two high, sometimes much shorter than the 

 leaves : flowers few to many, nearly sessile, or on pedicels 1 to 6 lines long : perianth 

 rather broadly funnelform, 6 to 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 ovate, sessile, 3 lines long, beaked by the slender style nearly as long : seeds 

 several in each cell, 2 lines long. PI. Hartw. 339. Hooker a pulchdla, Salisb. 

 Parad. t. 117? Dichelostemma capitata, Wood, 1. c. 173. Milla capitata, Baker, 

 1. c. 381 ; Oliver, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 5912. 



Frequent through California from San Bernardino northward ; also eastward in the mountains 

 to S. Utah. February to May. 



* * Stamens in 2 rows (except in n. 8), with more or less distinctly versatile 

 anthers and naked filaments : capsule stipitate : perianth-tube mostly narrow, 

 equo2ling or longer than the segments. SEUBERTIA. 



t Perianth broadly tubular : flowers subcapitate. 



7. B. Douglasii, Watson, 1. c. 237. Leaves 2 to 6 lines broad, carinate : scape 

 smooth, a foot or two high, erect and usually stout : pedicels few to many, 1 to 12 

 lines long: perianth 8 to 12 lines long, blue ; tube subsaccate, about equalling the 

 lobes : anthers oblong, a line long ; the lower on the throat opposite the outer seg- 

 ments, the upper on the inner segments, on a short free filament which forms below 

 a prominent wing within the tube : capsule ovate, 3 lines long, a little exceeding the 

 stipe and the slender style : seeds several in each cell. Triteleia grandiflora, Lindl. 

 Bot. Pteg. under t. 1293; Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. ii. 186, t. 198, B. B. grandiflora, 

 Torr. in Stansb. Rep. 397. Milla grandiflora, Baker, 1. c. 380. 



Washington Territory and Oregon, and eastward to W. Wyoming and the Wahsatch ; probably 

 to be found in Northern California. 



f *- Perianth more or less attenuate at base : umbel open. 

 H- Flowers blue or purplish, rarely white. 



8. B. Bridges!!, Watson, 1. c. Scape a foot high or more : pedicels 10 to 20, 

 | to 2 inches long : perianth 12 to 15 lines long, the tube very narrow and exceed- 

 ing the lobes : stamens in one row on the throat, the nearly equal filaments dilated 

 downward, 1 lines long : anthers linear, 2 lines long : capsule ovate, 4 lines long, 

 shorter than the stipe, beaked by the very slender style : seeds 2 or 3 in each cell, 

 1 lines lon. 



