644 LILIACEiK bbodijia 



on rooky hillsides. California to Brit. Columbia. 



B. mnltiflora Benth. PI. Hartw. 339. Scape 1-2 feet high, somewhat 

 scabrous : umbel not produced ; staminodia entire, broad and obtuse, about 

 equalling the anthers : seeds several in each cell. From the Sacramento 

 valley to Oregon. 



* * Flowers subcapitate; the segments little Umger than the tube, 

 stamens 6, the inner with a free lanceolate appendage on each side ; 

 the outer ones naked. 



B. eapitata Benth. 1. c. Scapes 1-2 feet high : leaves a foot long or 

 more, sometime^ longer than the scape, 2-10 lines wide, carinate, usually 

 glaucous : flowers few to many, nearly sessile or on pedicels 2-6 lines long : 

 perianth rather broadly funnelform. 6-10 lines long, from blue or purple 

 to white: inner anthers nearly sessile, linear, 2 lines long, slightly shorter 

 than the oblqjig-lanceolate appendages ; the outer smaller, on short naked 

 filamentfl broadly dilated at base: capsule ovoid, sessile, aboutS lines long, 

 beaked by the slender style nearly as long: seeds several in each cell, 2 

 lines long. On dry open ridges, southern Oregon to California.] 



§ 2 Teitelia Lindi. Bot. Reg. as genus. Segments of the_ 

 perianth equalling or shorter than the tube. Stamens in 2 rows, 

 with more or less distinctly versatile anthers. Capsule stipitatet 



B. Douglasii Watson 1. c. Tritelia grandiflora Lindl. Scape 1-3 fee 

 higli, smooth, erect and usually rtout: leaves 15-18 inches long, 2-8 linef 

 wide, carinate: umbel subcapitate, usually many flowered: pedicels 1-1 

 lines long : perianth 8-12 lines long, dark blue ; the tube subsaccate at baee> 

 about as long as the ovate obtuse lobes : anthers oblong, a line long, the 

 lower 3 inserted on the throat opposite the outer segments attached near 

 the base and erect on very short filaments ; the upper 3 inserted on the 

 inner t-egments, attached near the middle and versatile on short free fila- 

 ments which form below prominent wings within the tube: style slender, 

 about 3 lines Jong : capsule ovoid, al>out 4 lines lung, on a stipe nearly as 

 long: seeds several in each cell. On sandy plains, eastern Oregon and 

 Washington to Wyoming and Utah. 



B. Howellii Watson 1 c 301. Scape 1-3 feet high : feavea 8-12 inches 

 lona, 1-4 lines broad : umbel u-iually few-flowered subcapitate : flowers 

 white with light blue base to light blue, 8-10 lines long; the broad tube 

 longer than the oblong-ovate obtuse lobes : stamens in 2 rows, the lower 

 inserted on the throat <ippositM the 3 outer segments, on very short deltoid 

 filaments, the upper inserted at the base of the inner segment^, with 

 broadly winged filaments about 2 lines long ; anthers all attached near the 

 middle, nearly 2 lines long : capsule oblong, attenuate upward into the 

 style, the cells about 6-seeded. On dry plains, eastern Washington and 

 Oregon near the base of the Cascade Mountains. 



§ 3 Calliprora Stamens in 1 row, with deltoid or wing-dilat- 

 ed filaments and versatile anthers. Capsule stipitate. 



B. lactea Watson 1. c. 238. Scape usually slender, 1-3 feet high, 

 smooth or scabrous : leaves 6-8 inches li>ng 2-6 lines wide : umbel subcapi- 

 tate, few- to many-flowerfid : pedicels }^-2 inches long : perianth white with 

 green mid-nerve, 4-8 lines long, the short and broad tuoe not half as long 

 as the oblong obtuse segmehts : stamens in one row, inserted on the base 

 of the segments, with broad deltoid filaments and short anthers attached 

 a little below the middle : style slender, 3-4 lines long : capsule subglobose, 

 on a stipe 1-2 lines long. Common in wet places and moist meadows, 

 California to Brit. Columbia and Idaho. 



B. Brldffesil Watson 1. c. 237 Scape slender, 6-18 inches high : leaves 



