Brodicea. LILIACE^E. 



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Dichelostemma and Seubertia, Kiiiith, Enum. iv. 469 & 475. Themis, Salisb. Oen. 

 85. Milla, Baker, 1. c. in part, not Cav. 



A genus peculiar to California and the adjacent region, not reaching the southern boundary. 

 Though polymorphous in its characters, yet it is on the whole distinctly marked, and clearly sepa- 

 rated from the Mexican genus Milla, to wliich many of the species are referred by Mr. Baker. 

 The latter is distinguished by its salverform ])erianth with 3-nerved segments, its inarticulate 

 pedicels, sessile ovary, and southern liabitat. The single Mexican species, M. bijiora, Cav., is 

 also found in New Mexico and southeastern Arizona. 



* Stavieiis in one row on the throat; aethers hasifixed : capsule suhsessile : 

 jyerlanth purple, mosthj broadly funnelforni, the tube shorter than the limb. 



EUBRODLEA. 



-t- Stamens 3, opposite to the inner segments, the outer stamens beimj reduced to 

 staminodia : segments 2 or 3 times longer than the tube. 



++ Pedicels more or less elongated. 



1. B. grandiflora, Smith. Leaves a line broad, thick and somewhat terete, 

 about equalling the smooth scape, which is 4 to 10 inches high : pedicels 3 to 10 

 (or rarely solitary), unequal, | to 2 (or even 3 or 4) inches long : perianth varying 

 from purple to light rose-color, 10 to 20 lines long, the linear-oblong obtuse or acutish 

 segments strongly 1-nerved : filaments rather slender, H lines long or more, the 

 anthers twice longer ; staminodia ligulate, entire, obtuse, whitish, about equalling 

 the anthers : capsule sessile, narrowed at base, oblong, and attenuate into the stout 

 rigid style ; cells 6 - 8-seeded : seeds a line long. — Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 2 ; Lindl. 

 Bot. Eeg. t. 1183; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 2877; Baker, 1. c. 376, in part. 



Var. (l) major, Benth. Taller and stouter, a foot or two high; scapes often 

 scabrous ; leaves 1 to 3 lines broad and flattened : pedicels 6 to 20, mostly 1 to 4 

 inches long : perianth often 1 1 inches long or more, with long narrow segments and 

 staminodia ; anthers and filaments twice longer : capsules sometimes strictly sessile 

 with a broad base and the seeds 2 lines long. — PI. Hartw. 339; Baker, 1. c. £. 

 Californica, Lindl. Trans. Hort. Soc. iv. 84, & fig. 



From S. California (on the Mohave River, Fulmer) to the British Boundary ; in the Sierra 

 Nevada and foothills. The brown-coated corms are from half an inch to nearly an inch in diame- 

 ter. The broader leaved variety, with broader capsule and larger seeds, may prove distinct. 



2. B. minor, Watson. Scape very slender, 3 to 6 inches high, smooth, bearing an 

 umbel of 2 to 6 rays an inch or two long : perianth 7 to 14 lines long : anthers ob- 

 long, 2 lines long, shorter than the broadly ligulate usually emarginate staminodia : 

 capsule obovate, sessile or nearly so, 3 lines long, acute, the cells 3-seeded : seeds a 

 line long. — Proc. Amer. Acad. xiv. 236. £. grandiflora, var. minor, Benth. PL 

 Hartw. 340. B. grandiflora, Baker, 1. c, in part. 



In various jiarts of California {Hartweg, Wallace, Coulter) and Oregon, Kdlog'i k Ilar/ord. 



3. B. terrestris, Kell. Leaves nearly terete : scape very short, scarcely rising 

 above the surface of the ground : pedicels 2 to 10, very slender, 3 or 4 inches long : 

 perianth 8 to 10 lines long : anthers oblong, sagittate, \h Hues long, slightly longer 

 tlian the filaments, shorter than the yellowish emarginate staminodia : capsule h 

 inch long, including the short stout style, sessile, acute at base; cells 6 - 8-seeded'': 

 seeds nearly a line long. — Proc. Calif. Acad. ii. 6. B. grandiflora, var. macropoda, 

 Torr. Pacif R. Rep. iv. 149. B. Torreyi, Wood, Proc. Philad. Acad. 1868, 172. 



A very common species about San Francisco and through Central California, from Mendocino 

 County (sandy plains near Fort Bragg, Bolander) to Monterey. 



++ ++ Flowers std)capitate, on short pedicels. 



4. B. congesta, Smith. Corm often deep-seated: scapes 2 to 4 feet high, 

 smooth ; leaves 2 to 6 lines broad, carinate, glaucous : umbel often more or less pro- 

 duced into a short dense raceme : pedicels 6 to many, 1 to 3 lines long : perianth 8 



