■I go LILIACE^E. Bloomer ia. 



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

 wide : bracts 4 to 6, lanceolate to linear, 2 to 4 lines long : pedicels 5 to 15, very 

 slender, unequal, 2 to 12 lines long: perianth-segments 2 or 3 lines long, some- 

 what sacculate at the tip : anthers | line long : style about equalling the acute 

 ovary: capsule 3 lines long, abruptly beaked Ijy the short stout style: seeds H 

 lines long. — Hesperoscordinm (?) maritirmim, Torr. Pacif. R. Rep. iv. 148. Allinm 

 maritimuvi, Benth. PL Hartw. 339; Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 217; Regel, All. 

 Monogr. 219. Milla maritima, Watson, Bot. King Exp. 354. 



Near the coast, from Marin County to Monterey ; also in Western Nevada, in somewhat alka- 

 line localities, from Carson City to Sierra Valley, apparently identical, though with slightly 

 lai'ger flowers. 



3. BLOOMERIA, Kellogg. 



Perianth persistent, of 6 nearly equal distinct linear-oblong segments, somewhat 

 spreading, orange with a darker closely double or triple midnerve. Stamens 6, on 

 the base of the segments and a little shorter ; filaments filiform, 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, loculici- 

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

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

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

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



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

 covered witli brownish hbres : leaf solitary, equalling or exceeding the scape, 3 to 6 

 lines broad : scape scabrous, 6 to 1 8 inches high : bracts several, narrowly lanceolate : 

 pedicels numerous (15 to 60), 1 to 2| inches long: perianth subrotate in bloom ; 

 segments 4 to G lines long : appendage at the base of the filaments nearly a line 

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

 the persistent style, nearly 3 lines long.- — Watson, Proc. Amer. Acad. xiv. 235. 

 AUinm (Chri/soscordinm) croceum, Torrey, Bot. Mex. Bound. 218; Regel, All. 

 Monogr. 215. Nothoscordum aureum, Hook. f. Bot. Mag. t. 5896. 



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

 Kern County {Kennedy) ; near Mohave River, Palmer. May to July. 



4. BRODI^A, Smith. 

 Perianth persistent, funnelform, often narrowly so, not contracted at the throat, 

 nor saccate or but slightly so at base, blue-purple or scunetimes 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 with the fila- 

 ments naked or appendaged ; anthers basifixed or versatile. Ovary stipitate or 

 sessile ; style persistent, about equalling the anthers, with short diverging entire 

 stigmas ; cells 3 - 8-ovuled. Capsule ovate to oblong, more or less attenuate above. 

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

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

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

 Hoohera, Salisb. Parad. Lond. 98. Brodicea, Smith, Linn, Trans, x, 2 ; Baker, 

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

 part. Hesperoscordrm., Lindl. 1. c. Calliprora, Lindl. Bot. Reg. under t. 1590. 



