LILY FAMILY. Llliaceae. 



There are four kinds of Bloomeria, all Californian, re- 

 sembling Brodiaea, but the stamens unlike. They have 

 a fibrous-coated, solid bulb, long narrow leaves, and a 

 bracted cluster of many flowers, at the top of a tall flower- 

 stalk. The flowers are yellow, with six, nearly equal, 

 spreading divisions, the six stamens on the base of the di- 

 visions, with slender filaments, which with a microscope are 

 seen to have a short, two-toothed, hairy appendage at 

 base. These are united and form a little cup surrounding 

 the base of the stamens. The style is club-shaped, with a 

 three-lobed stigma. The roundish capsule, beaked with the 

 style, contains several, angular, wrinkled seeds in each cell. 



In late spring the meadows around Pasa- 

 Golden Stars 



Bloomtria aiirea dena and other piaces in the Coast Range 

 Yellow are bright with pretty clusters of Golden 



Spring, summer Stars. The plant is from six to eighteen 

 inches tall, springing from a small bulb, 

 covered with brown fibers, with a long, narrow, grasslike 

 leaf, and a large flower-cluster, sometimes comprising as 

 many as fifty blossoms, at the top of the stalk. The 

 flowers, about an inch across, with pedicels from one and a 

 half to two inches long, are orange-yellow, the spreading 

 divisions each striped with two dark lines, and the anthers 

 are bright green. This looks very much like Golden 

 Brodiaea, but the latter has no cup at the base of the I 

 stamens. It grows in the southern part of California 

 and is abundant wherever it is found. B. Cleveland! is 

 much the same, but the flowers are striped with green and 

 the numerous buds are green, so that it is less golden and 

 the general effect is not so good. It has numerous narrow 

 leaves. 



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