

LILY FAMILY. 99 



North Coast Ranges: Ukiah; Sonoma; Green Valley (Solano Co.); Vaca 

 Bits. Apr. Also called Cat's Ears and Fairy Lantern. 



5. ODONTOSTOMUM Torr. 



Stems flexuons, branching, from a corm. Leaves linear, mostly radical, 

 sheathing the stem. Flowers in bracted racemes terminating the branches. 

 Perianth with a narrow tube and with the limb divided into 6 soon reflexed 

 segments, the outer 3 slightly longer and cucullate at tip ; stamens 6, inserted 

 on the throat and alternating with as many short staminodia, those opposite 

 the outer segments longer; the stamen opposite the lower outer segment 

 stands alone and faces the remaining 5, which approximate each other 

 by their filaments on the upper side of the flower. Ovules 2 in 

 each cell but only 1 maturing. Capsule obovate, 3dobed, loculicidal. (Greek 

 odous, tooth, and stoma, mouth, on account of the erect subulate filaments at 

 the throat of the flower.) 



1. O. hartwegii Torr. Plants erect, 5 to 10 in. high; radical leaves 3 to 9 

 in. long, 2 to 3 lines wide with caudate-attenuate apex; racemes 2 to 5 in. long; 

 bracts and bractlets subulate; perianth-tube 3 lines long, the reflexed segments 

 nearly or quite as long, narrowly oblong, 5 or 6-nerved, l 1 /-* to 2% lines long. 



Dry hard soil in the foothills: Xapa Range; Sierra Nevada foothills. May. 



6. BRODIAEA Sm. 

 Scapes from corms, erect and straight, or sometimes elongated and twining. 

 Leaves mostly few and grass-like. Umbels loose or capitate. Pedicels jointed 

 beneath the perianth. Perianth-tube various. Stamens 6, or the alternate 

 stamens replaced by dilated sterile filaments or staminodia. Filaments slender 

 or more frequently winged and produced beyond the anther in the form 

 of thin appendages. Ovary on a short stipe or sessile. Capsule loculicidal, 

 beaked by the style which splits with the valves. (James Brodie, F. L. S., 

 Scotch botanist.) 



Umbel loose, mostly few-flowered, borne on a short rigidly erect scape; pedicels firm; 

 perianth-tube turbinate or urn-shaped; stamens inserted high on the perianth, those 

 with anthers 3; those opposite outer segments changed to staminodia and bearing white 

 petal-like plates; anthers innate; corms not flattened. — Hookera. 

 Scapes almost wholly subterranean, the umbel sessile on the ground; staminodia yellow- 

 ish 1. B. terrcstris. 



Scapes 3 to 18 in. high; staminodia white. 



Perianth turbinate-campanulate; staminodia commonly retuse, longer than the sta- 

 mens 2. B. mifior. 



Perianth-tube oblong with rotate or recurving segments; staminodia acute, mostly 



shorter than the stamens 3. B. grandiflora. 



Umbel mostly capitate, many-flowered, borne on a straight erect or even very tall and 

 twining scape; perianth-tube urn-shaped or tubular, angular or saccate and more or 

 less inflated; stamens 6, all with innate anthers or those opposite the outer segments 

 with half-sized anthers or changed to staminodia; leaves mostly 2, fleshy. — Dichel- 

 ostemma. 

 Stamens with anthers 3. 



Flowers scarlet with chrome-gieen segments; anthers bifid at each end; staminodia 



broad, truncate, corona-like 4. B. ida-maia. 



Flowers rose-red or pinkish; filaments and staminodia emarginate; scapes very much 



elongated, commonly twining 5. B. californica. 



Flowers blue-purple; anthers bifid at each end, sessile; staminodia deeply cleft 



(). B. congesta. 

 Stamens with anthers (>\ inner filaments with two lanceolate appendages extended be- 

 yond the anthers; bracts conspicuous, of a violet-purple or metallic color 



7. B. capitata. 



Umbel loose, many-flowered, borne on a straight, erect, and rather slender scape; flowers 





