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beyond the tube, the anthers i cm. long; the staminodia usually 

 a little longer than the stamens, 2 mm. wide, blunt or retuse, 

 with prominent midvein, slightly arched inward and standing 

 close to the stamens. 



No. 8097, collected July 14, on dry hillsides near Grass 

 Valley, Nevada county. Some of these plants were four or five 

 feet high, growing among shrubs where they were sheltered. 

 Hooker A coronaria Salisb. Parad. Lond. 2: pi. g8. 1808. 



Brodiaea grandifiora Smith, Trans. Linn. Soc. 10: 2. pi. i. 

 1811. 



No. 8098, collected July 15, along the electric railroad be- 

 tween Grass Valley and Nevada City, Nevada county, growing 

 occasionally in company with H. californica. It is not quite so 

 tall as that species, and is distinguishable at some distance by 

 its darker color, which is violet-blue, and by the wider, funnel- 

 form flower with spreading lobes. The internal structure is also 

 quite different. One point never brought out in descriptions 

 made from herbarium specimens is that the staminodia are erect, 

 standing entirely away from the stamens, and distant from them 

 at least 5 mm. 

 HOOKERA TERRESTRIS (Kellogg) Britten, Journ. Bot. 34: 



Brodiaea terrestris Kellogg, Proc. Cal. Acad, 3: 6. 1859. 



No. 7637, collected April 7, on sandy plains near Oil City, 

 opposite Bakersfield, Kern county. In general appearance this 

 plant resembles //. terrestris more than H. minor, but it is pos- 

 sibly undescribed. The staminodia are about i mm. longer 

 than the stamens, inserted against the outer perianth segments, 

 thence leaning in toward the stamens, but not touching them, 

 oblong, about 2 mm. wide, slightly 3-toothed at the truncate 

 apex: filaments free for about i mm.; anthers pale yellow, ob- 

 long, 3 mm. long, shortly 2-toothed, the teeth slightly bending 

 toward each other. The perianth is nearly 2 cm. long, either 

 pale or deep violet, the segments spreading but hardly rotate. 

 It is plentiful on the plains between Bakersfield and the foot- 

 hills. 



