LILY FAMILY. Liliaceae 
Triteleias resemble Brodiaeas, but they have six, swing- 
ing anthers and the ovary hasastalk. 
é , Though the general appearance of the 
bin ee plant is very different, the individual 
Triteleta grandi- r , 
flora (Brodiaea fOwers of this beautiful plant very much 
Douglasii) resemble the bells of a Hyacinth, for they 
Blue have the same waxy, semi-translucent 
Spring,summer toxture. The bluish-green leaves, folded 
Northwest and 
Utah lengthwise and withering before the 
flower, are sometimes a foot long and 
the flower-stalk often reaches a height of two feet and bends 
beneath the weight of its lovely crown of blossoms. The 
cluster has four papery bracts at the base and is from three 
to four inches across, comprising about a dozen flowers, 
each nearly an inch long. They are pale-violet, with a 
bright-blue mid-vein on each division, the general effect 
being blue, with a white pistil and six stamens in two rows, 
all with blue anthers and the outer ones with broad, white 
filaments. It is wonderful to find these lovely and exotic- 
looking flowers, delicately scented, gleaming in the shadow 
of a dusky oak thicket or a deep canyon. They last a long 
time in water, becoming papery as they wither. 
From one to two feet high, with very 
White Brodiaea_ ratty flowers, about half an inch long, 
Triteleta hyacin- : : : 
thina (Brodiaea elicately striped with green on the out- 
lactea) side, with six equal stamens, their filaments 
White broad, triangular and slightly united at 
ae base, with yellow or purple anthers, and a 
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Wash. green pistil. The leaf is grasslike, but 
thickish, and as long as the flower-stalk. 
These flowers are quite common and last a long time in 
water. 
Tthusial’s Speae Very much like Harvest Brodiaea but 
Triteleia léxa rather taller, with more flowers in the 
(Brodiaea) cluster, and less waxy in texture, varying 
Blue, purple in color from blue to violet and occasion- 
Spring 
ally white. This is common on hillsides 
and in adobe fields. The rather fanciful 
name was suggested by the spear carried by Milton’s angel 
Ithuriel. 
Cal., Oreg. 
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