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Al.IGERA CILIOSA Suksdorf. Hall, U 67. Blue Dicks. 



".Disk oval or roundish, stoma shaped, Bonito Island, Baja. 



its opening elliptic-rhombic, or roundish Hookera capitata Kuntze, Rev Gen 



-and larger. California." Suksdorf, Ery- pi 712. 



thta 6:^0. Brodiaea insularis Greene 



ALIGERA INSIGNI9 Suksdorf. Variety ILBA Fls wLy wMte 



"Disk orbicular, stoma-shaped, its CALOCHORTUS ALBUS Doucl. 



aperture -roundish." Suksdorf, Erythea, "stem stout, glaucous, usually 



branchin- a foot or two hi; radical 



AT TP TRA 



AJL.HT.bvK.-A. 



1? li 



minate, ereenish w; petals pure w, 

 with f^iri^Y 86 ' ovate-orbicular, acut^ 



num short prickles on the si, branches, 'j^ 12 ' 15 . ll lo ^ s ' W1 ^ 8ca f te ^ n l n f 

 midribs of the Ivs and inv otherwise f " n k ^ h *s above the gland; gland 

 glabrous or nearly so, 1-2 m hi; Ivs I u ? a * e '/ hall 1 ow ' w f lt ^ * transverse 1m- 

 sessile or the upper ones connate-per- bricated scales, fringed with close 

 foliate, lanceolate or oblong, entire, th" fhort yellow or w glandular hairs; an- 

 lower obtuse, crenate; Ivs of the inv tjf" obloner-obtuse, mucronate; ova 

 spreading or reflexed, shorter than the attenuate above; capsule 1 or 2 i long, 

 hd; hds ovoid, becoming- cylindric, 6-10 6 ; 12 , h broad abruptly short-beaked; 

 cm long; scales of th e receptacle with S * S b ry% Pj. tted ' Purdy, Cal ac pr, 

 hooKed tips, about equaling the fls; ar J* ,r r :117 ;-D NT 'rn \ cm ** 

 lilac 8-12 mm long Cruz, Rosa (Br) La (Da), SD Co. 



Abrams, Fl LA 383. Occasional in v , A ? ra ? ls ' 1 F . T L 89. "Common on 

 TTinist nlares about LA Eu shady banks in the Gabriel mts." 



BLOOMBKLA. AUREA ' KeUogg. CALOCHORTUS AMAB1LIS Purdy . 



Bulb about 15 cm in diam, becoming . bts O s tout, usually branching in 

 densely covered with brownish fibres; P ai V s ; 8 - l2 A l . ^}, glaucous; radical Ivs 

 scape scabrous, 2-5 dm hi; If solitary, ? 1 lo ?f 4 " 6 h . wide ' lanceolate-acum- 

 equalin^- or exceeding the scape, 6-12 L n ?. te ' tin e with ; bracts large and 

 mm broad; bracts narrowly lanceolate; foliaceous, 2-3 i long, 4-6 li wide; sep 

 pedicels num 3-6 cm long; perianth shorter .uan pet, ovate, shortly cun- 

 nearl- rotate in bloom; seg 8-12 mm eate at base ' sharnly acuminate or 

 long; appendages about 2 mm long, ven mucronate at apex, y tinged with 

 bicuspidate, minutely papillose. brown on the back; pet clear y ovate, 



BLOOMERIA CLEVELANDI S. Wats. W1 f h a short claw, obtuse at apex, 

 "Differing from B. aurea in the several naked but margined with a close row 

 very narrow leaves (1" wide or less), of short stiff hairs, very strongly in- 

 in the stouter scape (3-7' high), in arched 'so that the tips of the pet 

 having the thick and fleshy appendage at overlap each other much like a childs' 

 the base of the filament smooth instead pin-wheel; grland very deep, projecting; 

 of papillose, and obtuse at the summit upwards and outwards like a knob, 

 instead of bicuspidat^e, and in the much lined with short stiff hairs which cross 

 shorter style, which is shorter than the each 'other; anth oblong-obtuse; ova 

 ovary. On the mesas near San Diego, Cal- elliptical, short-beaked." Purdy Cal 

 Ifornia; first collected by D. Cleveland, In ac pr, sr 3, bot 2:119. 

 1874, and recently received from him ana CALOCHORTUS AURETJS S. Watson. 

 from C. R. Orcutt." S. Watson, Proc. "Low, 4-6' high, with a single linear 

 Am. Acad., xx. 376 (Feb. 21, 1885;. earinate radical leaf, 3-4' long; scape 



BLOOMERIA MONTANA Greene. Bhort, 1-2-flowered, the single pair ol 



"Corm 1' broad: leaf solitary: scape 2 bracts linear, 2' long: sepals greenish 

 high, stout and scabrous: bracts numer- -y., W jth a dark-p. spot near the base, ob- 

 ous, lanceolate: pedicels 30-50, 1-2' long or ovate-lanceolate; petals broadly 



long: perianth rotate, 1' in diameter: ap- cuneate, 15" long, bright-y., with a 

 pendage at base of filament 1" long, its small, well-defined circular densely hairy 

 lateral cusps subulate-filiform, % as long gland near the base and a lunate purplish 

 as the filaments: anthers linear, 1%" spot above it; young capsule narrowly ob- 

 long, attached almost at the very base, long, not winged.On sand-cliffs, Southern 

 but versatile." -Greene, Bull. Cal. Acad. Utah (Mrs. E. P. Thompson); June." 

 Sci., ii. 10-11 (Dec. 14, 1885). S. Watson, Amer. Natl.. vii. 7 (May, 1873). 



BRODIAEA CAPITATA Benth. CALOCHORTUS CATALJNAE S. TfaL 



Scape 1.5-5 dm hi, very tortuous, not Sts branching-, 3-6 dm hi, bulbifer- 

 rarely twining; Ivs about equaling the ous at base, Ivs and bracts linear; sep 

 scape, earinate; bracts p, darker than ovate-lanceolate, p-spotted near the 

 the fls; fls several clustered in a head base, nearly equaling the pet; pet cun- 

 on short pedicels 12 mm long or less; eate-obovate, 3-5 cm hi, lilac, with a 

 perianth tube funnelform, shorter than large ovate purplish blotch at base; 

 seg; appendages connivent, forming a gland oblong, y or brown, covered 

 corona. Throughout Cal; Ut; Baja! with brown or yellowish hairs; anth 

 Guad; Rosa. obtuse -inkish, 5 mm long 1 , on fil 3 



Abra,ms, Fl LA 87. times as long; cap 2.5-5 cm long 1 , about 



