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staminodia with no trace of anther-cells, surpassing the stamens; 

 capsule sessile, 5 lines long. — (Brodisea congesta Smith.) 



Open hills in the Coast Ranges from the Oakland Hills northward. 

 Api\-May. 



6. H. capitata (Benth.) Blub Dicks. Scapes erect, 7 to 14 in. 

 high, ending in a head-like umhel of 7 to 8 flowers, with about 4 

 dark purple or metallic bracts; these round-ovate or elliptic-oblong, 

 5 lines long; flowers blue, 7 lines long; perianth lobes elliptic-ovate, 

 obtuse, 4 lines long; stamens with anthers 6; filaments opposite the 

 inner perianth segments with a broad membranaceous wing extended 

 beyond the anthers as two lanceolate appendages; alternate stamens 

 with filaments dilated toward the base only, their anthers less than J 

 the size of those of the other set; appendages convergent or connivent, 

 forming a corona and more or less concealing the anthers. — (Brodisea 

 capitata Benth.) 



Very common on hillsides in the Bay Eegiou and southward to 

 Southern California. Peb.-May. 



7. H.ixioides(Ait. f.). Golden Brodi^a. Scape J to 1 J ft. high, 

 usually scabrous; leaves 2, 14 in. long or less; umbels 16 to 26-fiowered; 

 pedicels IJ in. long or less; flowers about 10 lines long, salmon-yellow, 

 with a conspicuous blaek-purpM vein on the outside running from the 

 apex to the base of each segment; stamens alternately long and 

 short, the filaments dilated and' bifurcate at the winged summit, the 

 oblong anthers on a cusp in the notch. — (Brodiaea ixioides Wats. 

 Calliprora ixioides Greene.) 



Common in the foothills of the Coast Ranges and Sierra Nevada. 

 May. 



Var. lugens (Tritelia lugens Greene). Broad appendages of the 

 filaments rounded at apex, not forked; entire tube exteriorly dark 

 brown, approaching black.— Vaca Mountains, Greene. 



8. H.laxa (Benth.). Grass Nuts. Scape 1 to 2 ft. high, rigid and 

 stoutish, from a usually deep-seated edible corm; umbel 10 to 

 25-flowered; pedicels 1 in. long, more or less; perianth-tube funnel- 



iform, IJ to If in. long, violet-purple, rarely white, cleft nearly to 

 the middle; stamens 6, all anther-bearing; filaments inserted on the 

 upper portion of the perianth-tube, free for 2 lines length above the 

 insertion, those opposite the inner segments longer, below coaleseent 

 with the perianth-tube and reappearing near the base in the form of 

 low longitudinal crests; anthers ovate-lanceolate with a 2-lobed base, 

 erect though fixed above the base, IJ lines long; ovary on a slender 

 stipe i to I in. long. — (Tritelia laxa Benth. Brodisea laxa Wats.) 



Showy and beautiful species, common in adobe fields or on adobe 

 hillsides. May. 



9 H. peduncularis (Lindl.). Scapes erect, slender, \\ to 3 ft. 

 high- umbel 3 to 15-flowered, the pedicels slender, 2J to 4 or even 6 

 or lo'in. long; perianth pale rose-purple or nearly white, 6 to 10 lines 

 long cleft below the middle, the lobes widely-spreading; stamens 

 opposite inner segments with short filaments, inserted higher than the 



