590 FLOWERS OF GARDEN AND GREENHOUSE 
clusters or umbels. The flowers are funnel- or salver-shaped, with six- 
parted limb. There are six stamens in two series, but in some species 
one series consists only of aborted scales. Certain of the species were 
formerly separated under the name Triteleia, by which name they are 
still known in gardens. They are natives of America. 
ll these plants are modern in relation to gardening. 
Brodica congesta and B. grandiflora were introduced from 
North America in the year 1806; B. laxa from California in 1832; B. 
lactea in 1833, also from California; and B. unzflora from Buenos Ayres 
in 1836. B. porrifolia was received from Chili in 1868. From 
California, again, came B. coccinea (1870), B. capitata (1871), B. multiflora 
(1872), B. gracilis (1876), and B. Howellii (1880). 
BRODI4A CAPITATA (headed). Scape 1 to 2 feet high. 
Flowers deep violet-blue in a many-flowered umbel; spathe 
deep violet; May. 
B. cocctNEa (scarlet). Scape 14 foot high. Flowers 14 inch is tube 
History. 
Principal Species. 
blood-red, segments yellowish green ; five to fifteen in an umbel; June. 
B. ConGEsTA (crowded). Scape 1 foot high. Flowers blue, pea to 
eight in a close umbel; July. The aborted stamens form a kind of 
fleshy crown in the mouth of the perianth. _ There is a white var. alba. 
B. GRAcILIS (slender). Scape 3 to 4 inches high. Leaf solitary. 
Flowers 4 an inch long, deep yellow with fine brown lines, a few in an 
umbel; July. Rather tender. 
B. GRANDIFLORA (large-flowered). Scape 18 inches high. Flowers 
blue-purple ; umbels two- to seven-flowered; July. 
Howe tui (Howell’s). Scape 14 to 2 feet high. Flowers purplish 
blue, somewhat bell-shaped, ? inch across, in many-flowered umbels; 
July and August. 
B. LAcTEA (milky). Scape 1 to 2 feet high. Flowers white, with 
green veins; saucer-shaped, ? inch across, in many-flowered umbels; 
June and July. 
B. (TRITELEIA) LAXA (loose). Ithuriel’s Spear. Scapes fragile, 1 to 
13 foot high. Flowers funnel-shaped, blue, 14 inch long; umbels eight- 
to twenty-flowered ; July. 
ULTIFLORA (many-flowered). Scape 1 to 14 foot high. Howes 
blue-purple ; flowers crowded in umbel, so that it resembles a somewhat 
globular head; May. 
B. (TR ieay PORRIFOLIA (Leek-leaved). Scape 6 or 8 inches 
high. Flowers funnel-shaped, whitish violet, # inch long; umbels four- 
to six-flowered ; July. Also known as Milla porrifolia. 
B. (TRITELEIA) UNIFLORA (one- flowered). Spring Starflower. 
