354 BOTANT. 



the flowers, unequal; periantli 6-10" long, blue,, the oblong-lanceolate 

 segments about equaling the ventricose tube ; anthers 2" long, sessile ; stamm- 

 odia IJ" long, lanceolate, entire; ovary sessile, the style 2 J" long, filiform; 

 seeds 4-6 in each cell— California, and collected by Fremont on the Prove 



River, Utah. 



MiLLA^ GEANDiFLORA, Baker ; I. c, p. 380. {:Triteleia, Lindl.) Bulb 

 globose, 1' in diameter, fibrous-coated, edible ; leaves fleshy-herbaceous, flat 

 or folded-carinate, equaling the scape, 2-4" wide ; scape slender, 1-2° high ; 

 bracts several (4-6,) distinct, lanceolate, 6-8" long; rays 6-30, jointed, \-\y 

 long; perianth \-V long, deep-blue, the segments oblong-spatulate, obtuse, 

 erect, a little shorter than the broadly fiinnetform tube, throat 3-4" wide ; 

 anthers 1" long, in two rows, the lower sessile on the throat of the tube, the 

 upper with short filiform filaments inserted upon the middle of the segments; 

 ovary distinctly stipitate, the cells 6-8-ovuled ; style 1 J-2" long, filiform ; 

 capsule 3-4" long, ovate-oblong, the stipe 2 J" long.— From Washington Ter- 

 ritory to Montana and southward to California. Abundaiit in the Wahsatch ; 

 5-6,000 feet altitude ; May, June. (1,189.) 



MiLLA HYACINTHINA, Baker; I. c, p. 385. {Hesperoscordium, Lindl.) 

 Bulb globose, l-V thick, fibrous-coated ; leaves 2-3, fleshy-herbaceous, nearly 

 equaling the scape, 1-6" wide; scape firm, erect, 1-2° high; bracts 4-6, 

 distinct, ovate-lanceolate or subulate-linear ; pedicels 10-30, jointed, 6-15" 

 long; perianth 4-7" long, funnelform, white, with greenish midveins, the 

 segments lanceolate-spatulate, erect-spreading, thrice longer than the cam- 

 panulate tube ; stamens in one row upon the throat, the deltoid petaloid fila- 

 ments scarcely 1" in length ; ovary distinctly stipitate ; style 1" long ; capsule 

 2" in diameter, subglobose upon a short thick stipe (14" long) or very nearly 

 sessile ; cells 2-3-seeded. — From Washington Territory to California ; near 

 Carson City, Nevada, (101 Anderson.) 



MiLLA MARiTiMA. (Hesperoscordium (?), Torr. Fac. R. R. Surv. 4. 148.) 

 Bulb fibrous-coated, ¥ thick ; scape 3-6' high ; leaves several, very narrowly 

 linear, i-1" wide, usually exceeding the scape, retrorsely aculeate-scabrous on 



' MILLA, Cav. Perianth broadly or narrowly funnelform or subrotate, the segments about equal- 

 ing the funnelform or campanulate tube or *-4 times longer, rarely shorter. Stamens 6, always distinctly 

 perigynous, in 1 (or more or less distinctly 2) series, the filaments usually elongated, rarely nearly obso- 

 lete ; anthers linear-oblong, versatile. Ovary obovoid, sessile or more or less distinctly stipitate ; style 

 straight, filiform ; stigma capitate, 3-sulcate. Capsule membranous, sessile or stipitate, loculicidally 

 3-valved ; seeds 2-12 in each cell, small, triquetrous, loose or in two rows. Testa shining, black. — 

 Bulbous herbs, with narrow leaves and umbellate flowers. Bakek, I. c. 



