GOLDEN BRODLEA (Brodicea ixioides, Wats.). Flowers 

 funnel-formed, yellow, the spreading divisions with a brown 

 mid- vein a charming plant 6 inches to 2 feet high, found in the 

 Coast Ranges and Sierra Nevada (including the Yosemite 

 region) from the Santa Ines Mountains in Southern Cali- 

 fornia northward to Oregon, blooming in summer. 



The Golden Brodisea is likely to deceive the novice into 

 t hinking it Bloomeria aurea. The flower of the latter, however, 

 is distinguished by a tiny cup out of which the stamens rise, 

 and the stamen filaments themselves are thread-like. In the 

 G olden Brodisea, the stamens have broadly winged filaments 

 the whole length. 



In the higher Sierras, at about 8,000 feet and upward, there 

 is another yellow Brodisea often found, which closely resem- 

 bles B. ixioides, but is a smaller plant in every way. It is 

 Brodicea gracilis, Wats. The main botanical distinction is in 

 the filaments, which are thread-like in B. gracilis, instead of 

 winged. 



Some botanists split the genus Brodicea into three Brodicea, 

 Hookera, and Triteleia and by these nomenclaturists our 

 Golden Brodiaea is classed with Triteleia. 



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