LILY FAMILY. Liliaceae 



Triteleias resemble Brodiaeas, but they have six, swing- 

 ing anthers and the ovary has a stalk. 



Though the general appearance of the 



Indian Hyacinth ^nt is very different, the individual 

 Tritelela grandt- * 



Jldr a (Brodiaea flowers of this beautiful plant very much 

 Douglasii) resemble the bells of a Hyacinth, for they 



Blue have the same waxy, semi-translucent 



Spring, summer texture< The b i u i sh -green leaves, folded 

 Northwest and 



lengthwise and withenng before the 



flower, are sometimes a foot long and 

 the flower-stalk often reaches a height of two feet and bends 

 beneath the weight of its lovely crown of blossoms. The 

 cluster has four papery bracts at the base and is from three 

 to four inches across, comprising about a dozen flowers, 

 each nearly an inch long. They are pale-violet, with a 

 bright-blue mid- vein on each division, the general effect 

 being blue, with a white pistil and six stamens in two rows, 

 all with blue anthers and the outer ones with broad, white 

 filaments. It is wonderful to find these lovely and exotic- 

 looking flowers, delicately scented, gleaming in the shadow 

 of a dusky oak thicket or a deep canyon. They last a long 

 time in water, becoming papery as they wither. 



From one to two feet high, with very 

 White Brodiaea pretty fl ower s, about half an inch long. 

 Tntele\a hyacin- 



thina (Brodiaea delicately stnped with green on the out- 

 lactea) side, with six equal stamens, their filaments 



White broad, triangular and slightly united at 



base, with yellow or purple anthers, and a 

 ' green pistil. The leaf is grasslike, but 



thickish, and as long as the flower-stalk. 

 These flowers are quite common and last a long time in 

 water. 



_ . . ,, o Very much like Harvest Brodiaea but 



Ithunel's Spear 



Tritelela Idxa rather taller, with more flowers in the 



(Brodiaea) cluster, and less waxy in texture, varying 



Blue, purple i n color from blue to violet and occasion- 



pnng ally white. This is common on hillsides 



and in adobe fields. The rather fanciful 



name was suggested by the spear carried by Milton's angel 



IthurieL 



