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This inland plant may be found to pass into B. maritima but the 
collections before me show no such tendency. Besides the very 
broad filaments, which, according to Mrs. Brandegee, Zoe, iv. 101 
(1893), furnish the only means of separating B. maritima and B. 
transmontana, the anthers of the latter appear to be constantly 
yellow; those of the former, lurid purple. 
Bloomeria Purpusii (Brandg.), comb. nov. Muilla Purpusii 
Brandg. Univ. Cal. Publ. Bot. iv. 177 (1911). 
Brodiaea grandiflora (Lindl.), comb. nov. Triteleia grandiflora 
Lindl. Bot. Reg. xv. sub. t. 1293 (1830). B. Douglasii Wats. Proc. 
Am. Acad. xiv. 237 (1879). 
The restoration of the name Brodiaea coronaria (Salisb.) Hort. 
for the plant commonly known under the later name, B. grandiflora 
Sm. necessitates the taking up of Lindley’s name for the plant 
more recently called B. Douglasii Wats. since the specific name 
grandiflora is no longer “ already borne by a valid species.” 
Bropraka caprrata Benth., var. insularis (Greene), comb. nov. 
B. insularis Greene, Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci. ii. 134 (1886). 
The insular plant differs from the typical form of the mainland 
only in its larger size and usually longer-pedicelled flowers. Greene, 
in 1885, 1. ¢. i. 216, referred his plant to B. capitata, “ which we 
found exceedingly common, . . . and differing rather strikingly 
from the rankest California specimens in its much greater size. 
Its leaves, in Guadalupe, are an inch broad, and its scape not 
Seldom more than three feet high.” 
Brodiaea coerulea (Scheele), comb. nov. Milla coerulea Scheele, 
ea, xxv. 260 (1852). Androstephium violaceum Torr. Bot. 
Mex. Bound. 219 (1859). A. coerulewm (Scheele) Greene, Pitt. ii. 
57 (1890). 
Brodiaea breviflora (Wats.), comb. nov. Androstephium _— 
florum Wats. Am. Nat. vii. 303 (1873). B. Paysonii A. Nels.? 
Bot. Gaz. lvi. 63 (1913). 
There is room for much difference in the interpretation of ge- 
heric limitations in this group of plants and indeed few groups have 
peen subjected to more diverse treatment. In as much as Greene 
m the Bull. Cal. Acad. ii. 125 (1886) has devoted five pages to a 
historical résumé and a discussion of this subject under the title 
“Some Genera which have been Confused under the Name Bro- 
diaea” it is now only necessary to call attention to Greenes 
