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BRODIvEA 



BROMUS 



Btaminodia purple, 2-toothed. Calif, to Wash. G.C. III. 

 20:213. Blooms late. 



20. multifldra, Benth. (B. parviflora, Torr. & Gray). 

 Similar to B. congesta: fls. 6-20, sessile or short-stalked, 

 umbellate, %in. long, blue; staminodia lanceolate, 

 entire. Calif., Ore., Utah. B.M. 5989. 



AA. Anthers 6. 



21. capitita, Benth. (Milla capitdta, Baker. Dichelo- 

 stemma capitdta, Wood). Lower (1-2 ft.): Ivs. narrow- 

 linear, perishing: fls. many, in a capitate umbel, %in. or 

 less long, lilac (a var. alba) ; three inner anthers winged. 

 Calif., Utah, New Mex. B.M. 5912. G.C. III. 20:238. 

 Early blooming. 



Group 4- Conn as in Group 1 : fls. many, in a dense, 

 or at least a close, umbel, the tube about as long as 



the segms.; good 

 anthers 6. 



A. F Is. essentially 

 capitate. 



22. Douglasii, 

 Wats. (Tritelela 

 grandiflora, Lindl. 

 Milla grandiflora, 

 Baker). Lvs. linear: 

 scape 114-2 ft.; fls. 

 few, in a close um- 

 bel, saccate as in 

 Brevoortia coccinea, 

 blue; segms. as long 

 as the tube, the 

 inner ones wavy; 

 filaments winged. 

 Ore and Wash. B. 

 M. 6907. 



23. H6wellii, 

 Wats. (Triteleia 

 Howettii, Greene). 

 Fls. bell - shaped, 

 white: differs from 



B. Douglasii in 

 smaller fls., and 

 segms. not more 

 than half so long as 

 tube. Wash. B.M. 

 6989. 



Var. lilacina, 

 Hort. One of the 

 handsomest of all 

 brodieas, and a 

 good grower: fls. 

 porcelain-blue, sug- 

 gestive of Brevoortia 

 coccinea. Wash. G. 



C. III. 19:767; 20: 

 239. Gn. 46:502. 

 Large and strong. 



AA. Fls. in a close but rather free umbel, the pedicels 



usually larger than the perianth. 

 24. Palmeri, Wats. Fig. 666. Lvs. firm and linear: 

 fls. many, J^in. long, the segms. about as long as tube, 

 blue. S. Calif. G.F. 2:245 (adapted in Fig. 666). 



B. coccinea, Wats.=Brevoortia. B. crbcea, Wats. 1ft. or more: 

 fls. 6-15, yellow. N. Calif. B. insularis, Greene. Like B. capitata, 

 but more robust and larger-fld. Islands off Calif. B. Lfmmonx, 

 Wats. 1 ft.: fls. small, deep orange. N.Ariz. B. leptdndra, Baker. 

 1 ft. or less: fls. 2, purple. Calif. B. Ktdcina, Baker. 1 ft. or less: 

 fls. 10-15, lilac-purple. Calif. B. litgens. Baker. Like B. ixioides, 

 but fls. saffron-color within and brown-black on tube and ribs. 

 Calif. B. pulchella, Greene. Probably the same as B. congesta. 

 tt. scdfrra. Baker. Like B. ixioides, but scabrous: fls. bright yellow. 

 Calif. B. tolitbilis, Balrer=Stropholirion. 



CARL PURDY and L. H. B. 



BROMiXIA (Bromel, a Swedish botanist). Brome- 

 liacese. Hothouse plants, grown for the stiff form and 

 clusters of flowers. 



666. Brodiaea Palmeri. (plant X 14) 



About two dozen species of Trop. American herbs 

 with stiff, pineapple-like Ivs., and fls. in heads or pani- 

 cles; corolla 3-parted; calyx of 3 ovate-oblong sepals. 

 Differs from Billbergia and Ananas in technical char- 

 acters, particularly in the deeper-cut calyx. Less popu- 

 lar as stove plants than ^Echmea and Billbergia. H. 

 bracleata and B. macrodontes of trade-lists belong to 

 Ananas. Culture as for Billbergia, which see. Monogr. 

 by Mez, in De Candolle's Monogr. Phaner. 9. 



Pinguin, Linn. PINGUIN of Jamaica. WILD Pixp 

 Three to 4 ft. high: Ivs. broad-toothed and spiny, 

 bright green, but becoming pink and red \yith age 

 reddish, pubescent, in a dense panicle, with a in 

 rachis, the sepals acute: fr. as large as plums, 

 W. Indies. Makes a good hedge in tropical count 

 and the fr. yields a cooling juice. 



Bindtii, Morr. Panicle lax ; sepals rounded at tl i 

 habit open and spreading. Brazil. 



B. longifAlia, Rudge=Streptocalyx. B. tricolor, Sander 

 1H-2 ft. long, 1H-2 in. wide, the wavy margins creamy y 

 except at the rose-red base, the central portion a glossy cn.Ti 

 G.C. III. 43:261. Tj jj g 



GEORGE V. 



BROMHEADIA (Sir Edward F. Bromhead, 

 naturalist). Orchidacex. Stove orchids, terrestrial or 

 epiphytic, non-bulbous, little known in cult., compris- 

 ing two species from the East Indian-Malayan region. 



Leaves distichous, rigid, often fleshy: fls. s) 

 white and orange, the parts narrow and pointed; lip 

 3-lobed, narrow. Prop, by division or offsets after 

 flowering. B. Finlaysoniana, Reichb. (B. poZii 

 Lindl. Grammatophyllum Finlaysonianum, Lindl.). 

 Root of stout and fleshy fibers: st. 3-8 ft., with sheath- 

 ing scales below and a few oblong thick or fleshy Ivs. 

 at the middle and elongated scaly peduncle at the top: 

 fls. white, fragrant, the parts 1^ in. long, oblong- 

 acuminate and nearly equal, spreading; lip oblong, 

 3-lobed, white outside and purple-lined inside, 

 middle lobe rounded and yellow at center. B.M. 4001. 



BROMPTON STOCK: MaUkiola. 



BROMUS (ancient Greek name for the pat). 

 mlnex. BROME-GRASS. Annual or perennial gr;t 

 with large, usually awned spikelets in panicles. 



Spikelets several-fld.; lemmas convex or keeled, 5-9- 

 nerved, usually 2-toothed at apex and awned from 

 between the teeth, sometimes awnless, the awn usually 

 straight. Species about 100, mostly in the north tem- 

 perate zone. 



The genus contains a few forage grasses and several 

 annual species that have been intro. into the U. S., 

 especially on the Pacific coast, where they have become 

 troublesome weeds. Among the weedy annual spr 

 may be mentioned B. secalinus, Linn., chess or cheat, 

 with smooth sheaths, drooping panicles of ovate short- 

 awned spikelets, the lemmas convex and smooth; B. 

 commutalus, Schrad., resembling the preceding but the 

 sheaths hairy; B. mollis, Linn. Resembles chess, from 

 which it differs by its hairiness and more erect panicle; 

 B. villosus, Forsk., with large few-fld. spikelets, the 

 awns about 2 in. long; B. tectorum, Linn., delicate. 

 slender spikelets in dropping panicles the awns ii-7 

 lines long; B. rubens, Linn., with erect compact pan- 

 icles of purple spikelets, the awn 9-11 lines 1< 

 The last 3 are especially abundant in Calif. Cheat 

 used for hay in Ore. 



A. Plants perennial, producing rootstocks. 



inermis, Leyss. AWNLESS BROME-GRASS. Erect, 2-4 

 ft. : panicle narrow, the branches ascending or spreading 

 in fl.; spikelets about 1 in., the lemmas mueronate or 

 short-awned. Intro, from Eu. Gn. 25, p. 429. Dept. 

 of Agric., Div. of Agrost., 7:298. Used as a pasture 

 and meadow grass in the northwestern states. Espe- 

 cially valuable in semi-arid regions. 



