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 TritelEia laxa Benth. Trans. Hort. Soc. II. 1: ^i2>- P^- ^5-f- 



2. 1835. 



Brodiaea laxa S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 14: 237. 1879. 



No. 7804, collected May i, on the first ridge west of Keene 

 station in the Tehachapi mountains, Kern county, growing in 

 rich loose soil about rocks. This is the very large flowered 

 form, the perianth, often being pinkish or pale, with prominent 

 dark midvein. 



The typical form, as shown by the colored plate, is the 

 smaller but still ample flowered one with deep violet-blue flow- 

 ers, found in the region of San Francisco Bay. My 7389, col- 

 lected near Los Gatos, distributed in 1904, is typical. 



Calliprora scabra Greene, Erythea, \\\ 126. 1895. 



No. 7623, collected April 7, about a mile east of Caliente, 

 Kern county, in a field in adobe soil. This has larger as well 

 as paler flowers than any other species in the genus, but become 

 darker in drying. In our specimens the forks of the filaments 

 seem to be somewhat recurved. The scabrous roughness is very 

 pronounced. No definite station is given for the original, more 

 than that it is "common in the middle Sierra Nevada of Califor- 

 nia." 



Calliprora aiialiiia (Cireene) 



Calliprora scahra var.? a7ialina Greene, Erythea, 3: 126. 



1895. 



■-"": 'No'. 7986, collected June .5, in dry; ground in open places in 

 the woods on the plateau just above Shasta Springs, Siskiyou 

 county. Since the description of this plant is very short, it 

 : seems best to add to it somewhat. 



Plant slender, 2 dm. high from a small (i cm. in diameter) 

 fibrous-coated corm: stems somewhat purplish, especially below, 

 slightly scabrous: leaves one or two, linear, equalling or a little 

 exceeding the stem, 4 mm. wide, faintly scabrous on the mar- 

 gins: umbel about 8-flowered or less, the slender pedicels 2 cm. 

 long, the outer ones slightly upcurved near the apex: perianth 



