
LILY FAMILY. Liliaceae. 
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There are four kinds of Bloomeria, all Californian, re- 
sembling Brodiaea, but the stamens unlike. They have 
a fibrous-coated, solid bulb, long narrow leaves, and a 
bracted cluster of many flowers, at the top of a tall flower- 
stalk. The flowers are yellow, with six, nearly equal, 
spreading divisions, the six stamens on the base of the di- 
visions, with slender filaments, which with a microscope are 
seen to have a short, two-toothed, hairy appendage at 
base. These are united and form a little cup surrounding 
the base of the stamens. The style is club-shaped, with a 
three-lobed stigma. The roundish capsule, beaked with the 
style, contains several, angular, wrinkled seeds in each cell. 
paresis saci In late spring the meadows around Pasa- 
Bloomeria agrea Gena and other places in the Coast Range 
Yellow are bright with pretty clusters of Golden 
Spring,summer Stars. The plant is from six to eighteen 
Soa inches tall, springing from a small bulb, 
covered with brown fibers, with a long, narrow, grasslike 
leaf, and a large flower-cluster, sometimes comprising as 
many as fifty blossoms, at the top of the stalk. The 
flowers, about an inch across, with pedicels from one and a 
half to two inches long, are orange-yellow, the spreading 
divisions each striped with two dark lines, and the anthers 
are bright green. This looks very much like Golden 
Brodiaea, but the latter has no cup at the base of the 
stamens. It grows in the southern part. of California 
and is abundant wherever it is found. B. Clevelandi is 
much the same, but the flowers are striped with green and 
the numerous buds are green, so that it is less golden and 
the general effect is not so good. It has numerous narrow 
leaves. 
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