102 L1LIACEAE. 



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

 May. 



10. B. peduncularis Wats. Scapes erect, 1 V\ to 3 ft. high; umbel •" > . to 

 L5-flowered, the pedicels slender, 2y 2 to + 01 * even (i or 1<> in. long; perianth 

 pale rose-purple <>r nearly white, (i to ( .» lines long, the segments Longer than the 

 tube, widely-spreading; ovary yellow; stipe of capsule li/> to 3 lines long. — 

 (Hookera peduncularis Ktze.) 



Low wet ground: Tiburon, Miss H. A. Walker (all the stamens with short 

 filaments), and north to Lake Co. 



11. B. hyacinthina Baker var. lactea Baker. White Brodiaea. Scapes 

 1 to 1% ft. high; umbels 20-flowered, more or less; pedicels from y 2 to 2 in. 

 long; perianth open-campanulate, ^ cleft below the middle, white or bluish 

 white with green mid-veins, 5 to 7 lines long; filaments with broadly triangular 

 and slightly united bases, attenuate above and tipped with an anther % line 

 long ; ovary with 3 glandular pits towards the summit ; capsule short-stipitate. — 

 (B. lactea Wats. Hookera hyacinthina (Lindl.) Ktze. var lactea (Baker) 

 Jepson.) 



Common in low moist ground in the Coast Ranges and Great Valley. Also 

 called White-flowered Grass-nuts. 



7. BLOOMERIA Kell. 

 Scape from a fibrous-coated corm. Leaves linear, carinate. Umbel with 

 many yellow flowers; pedicels jointed at the summit and subtended by mem- 

 branous bracts. Perianth persistent, of 6 nearly equal distinct linear-oblong 

 segments. Stamens 6, inserted on the base of and rather shorter than the 

 segments; filaments filiform, surrounded at base by a cup-like appendage which 

 is free from the perianth. Capsule sub-globose; seeds 4 to 8 in each cell, 

 angular and wrinkled; style persistent and splitting with the loculicidal capsule. 

 — (H. G. Bloomer, a pioneer botanist of San Francisco.) 



1. B. aurea Kell. Golden Bloomeria. Scapes 6 to 9 in. high, minutely 

 scabrous; leaves 2, one of them as long as the scape; pedicels 30 to 45, iy 2 

 to 2 in. long; bracts several, subulate-lanceolate; perianth-segments subrotate, 

 5 to 6 lines long; appendages minutely papillose; capsule nearly 3 lines Long. 



Pacheco I 'ass, New Idria, Monterey Co. and southward. 



8. MUILLA Wats. 



Like Allium but the herbage without the taste or odor of onions. Scape 

 from a fibrous-coated conn and bearing an umbel subtended by several small 

 BCarious bracts. Leaves very narrow, almost terete. Bracts 4 to 6, lanceolate 

 or linear. Perianth subrotate, persistent, of 6 nearly equal slightly united 

 oblong-lanceolate segments, greenish or yellowish white with a dark 2-nerved 

 mid-rib. Stamens inserted near the base; filaments filiform; anthers versatile. 

 Ovules 8 to 10 in each cell; style clavate. persistent and at Length splitting. 

 Capsule globose, scarcely Lobed, loculicidal. Seeds compressed and angled. 

 ( Anagram <>t' Allium.) 



1. M. maritima Wats. Scapes 3 to 9 in. high, equaled by the narrow 



( I ._. to 1 Line wide) leaves; umbels I to 1 2 llowered, the pedicels unequal, 2 to 



Ki lines Long; perianth segments 2 or .'! lines Long; capsule 3 lines long. 



Low alkaline fields: Sacrament Valley to Monterey. 



