152 LILIACE.E. tlbanncna. 



equalling the very slender scabrous scape (3 to 12 inches high), a half to one line 

 wide: hracts 4 to G, lanceolate to linear, 2 io 4 lines long: pedicels f) to IT), very 

 slender, uneiiual, 2 to 12 lines k)ng : iierianth-segnients 2 or 3 lines long, sonii!- 

 Avhat sacculate at the tij) : anthers \ line long : style about ccpialling the acute 

 ovary: capsule 3 lines long, abruptly beakeil by the short stout style: seeds 1| 

 lines long. — Iltsperoscorduim (?) viaritimum, Torr. Tacil'. IJ. Hep. iv. 148. Alliuni 

 maritimum, Lenth. PI. Hartw. 339; Torr. l>i)t. Mex. liound. 217; iJegel, All. 

 Monogr. 219. MiUa maritima, Watson, I>ot. King Kxp. 354. 



Near the coast, I'loin Marin County to Monterey ; also in Western Nevada, in somewhat ali<a- 

 line localities, from Carson City to Sierra Valley, aji[):irently iilentieal, though with slightly 

 larger llowers. 



3. BLOOMERIA, Kellogg. 

 Perianth persistent, of G nearly etjual distinct linear-oblong segments, somewhat 

 spreading, orange with a darker closely double or triple midnerve. Stamens G, on 

 the base of the segments and a little shorter ; lilaments iiliform, with a somewhat 

 cup-shaped winged and bi-cuspidate appendage surrounding the base, not adnate to 

 the" perianth ; anthers oblong, attached near the base but versatile. Ovary sessile, 

 subglobose : ovules several in each cell : style filiform-clavate, persistent and split- 

 ting with the capsule. Capsule subglobose, membranous, obtusely 3-lobed, loctdici- 

 dally dehiscent. Seeds 4 to 8 in each cell, subovoid, angular and wrinkled, with 

 thin dull black testa. — Scape from a hbrous-coated corm, bearing a many-rayed 

 umbel subtended by membranous bracts; leaves linear, carinate; jjcdicels jointed 

 at the summit. A single species. — Proc. Calif. Acad. ii. 11. 



1. B. aurea, Kell. 1. c. Bulb small (a half-inch in tliametcr), becoming densely 

 covered willi brownish fibres : leaf solitary, equalling or exceeding the scape, 3 to G 

 lines broad : scape scabrous, to 18 inches high : bracts several, narrowly lanceolate : 

 pedicels numerous (15 to GO), 1 to 2^- inches long: perianth subrotate in bloom ; 

 segtuents 4 to G lines long : appendage at the base of the lilaments nearly a line 

 long, minutely papillose, the lateral cusps variable in length : capsule beaked with 

 the persistent style, nearly 3 lines long. — Watson, l^roc. Amer. Acad. xiv. 235. 

 Allium {Chrysoscordiam) croceiim, Torrey, Bot. Mex. Bound. 218; Pegel, All. 

 Monogr. 215. Nutlioscordum aureum, Hook. f. ]>ot. Mag. t. 589G. 



Southern California, in the Coast Ranges from Monterey County to San Diego, and eastward ; 

 Kern County {Kcnncdij) ; near Jloliave River, Palmer. May to July. 



4. BRODIiEJA, Smith. 

 Perianth ])ersistent, fnnnelform, often narrowly so, not contracted at the throat, 

 nor saccate or but slightly so at base, blue-purple or sometimes yellow or white ; 

 segments 1-nerved. Stamens 3 on the throat opposite the inner lobes and alternate 

 with as many oblong or linear staminodia, or 6 in one or two rows Avith the lila- 

 ments naked or appendaged ; anthers basilixed or versatile. Ovary stipitato or 

 sessile; stylo per.'^isteut, about equalling the anthers, with short diverging entire 

 stigmas; colls 3-8-ovuled. Capsule ovate to oblong, nu)re or less attenuate above. 

 Seeds angled, black. — Scape usually erect, with linear leaves, from a libro-mem- 

 branous-coated corm, bearing a several-bracted umbel of few to many flowers on 

 jointed pedicels : brown-coated corms small, ^ to | inch in diameter or less. — 

 Hookera, Salisb. Parad. Lond. 98. Brodlw.a, Smith, Linn. Trans, x. 2 ; Baker, 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. 375, in part. Triteleia, Lindl. Bot. Reg. tinder t. 1293, in 

 part. Ife.tperoscordii/n, Lindl. 1. c. Caflipmra, Lindl. Bot. Peg. under t. 1590. 



