BRODLSA 



LILIACE.E 643 



A. simillimum Henderson Bull. Torr. Bot. Club xxvii, 355. Scape 

 1-2 inches high from the ovoid bulb, slender, flattened and very narrowly 

 winged: leaves 4-5 inches long, less than a line wide, falcate to recurved: 

 bracts of the spathe broadly ovate, acute or acutish: umbel 6-9-flowered: 

 pedicels slender, 1-2 lines long : segments of the perianth narrowly oblong, 

 obtuse, delicately denticulate with spreading papilla half way up, pinkish- 

 white with strong green midnerve, }£-% longer than the stamens : filaments 

 dilated at base and adnate for y z their length : ovary slightly crested. On 

 Sesesh Peak, Idaho. 



2 BRODIiEA Smith Trans. Linn. Soc. x, 2. Including 

 HOOKERA Salisb. and TRITELIA Lindl. 



Perennial herbs with slender scapes from fibromembranaceous- 

 coated corms bearing a several-bracted umbel of few to many blue, 

 purple, white, or yellow flowers on jointed pedicels. Perianth 

 persistent, funnelform, often narrowly so, not contracted at the 

 throat nor saccate, or but slightly so, at base. Segments of the 

 perianth one-nerved. Stamens 3, inserted on the throat opposite 

 the inner segments and alternate with as many staminodia, or six 

 in one or two rows with the filaments naked or appendaged. 

 Style persistent, about equalling the anthers, with short diverg- 

 ing entire stigmas. Ovary three-celled, with 3-8 ovules in each 

 cell. Capsule ovate to oblong, more or less attenuate above. 

 Seeds angled, black. 



§ 1 Eubrodt^ea Watson Proc. Am. Acad, xiv, 236. Peri- 

 anth broadly funnelform, the tube mostly shorter than the limb. 

 Stamens in one row. Anthers attached by the base. 



* Segments of the perianth 2-3 times longer than the tube : stamens 

 3, alternate with as many staminodia. 



B. grandiflora Smith Trans. Linn. Soc. x, 2. Scape smooth, I 3-10 

 inches high : leaves about a line broad, thick and somewhat terete, about 

 as long as the stem: pedicels 1-10 or more, }4-S inches long: perianth 

 varying from purple to light rose-color, 10-20 lines long: segments of the 

 perianth linear-oblong, obtuse or acutish, strongly 1-nerved: .filaments 

 rather slender, 1-2 lines long, the anthers twice as long: staminodia ligu- 

 late, entire, obtuse, whitish about equalling the anthers : capsule sessile, 

 narrowed at base, oblong, attenuate into the short rigid style; cells 6-8- 

 seeded: seeds a line long. Common in open places, California to British 

 Columbia. 



B. minor Watson Proc. Am. Acad, xiv, 236. Scapes very slender, 

 3-6 inches high, smooth, bearing an umbel of 2-6 rays an inch or two long : 

 perianth 7-14 lines long; anthers oblong, 2 lines long shorter than the 

 broadly ligulate usually emarginate staminodia: capsule obo void, sessile 

 or nearly so, 3 lines long, acute, the cells 3-seeded: seeds a line long. 

 Oregon to California. 



B. congesta Smith I. c. 3, t. 1. Scapes slender, 2-4 feet high, smooth : 

 leaves carinate, glaucous, 6-18 inches long, 4-9 lines wide: umbel densely 

 few- to many-flowered, often produced into a short dense raceme: pedicels 

 1-3 lines long: perianth 8-10 lines long, bluish-purple, the oblong-lanceo- 

 late segments twice as long as the tube: anthers very nearly sessile, deeply 

 emapginate at each end, 2-3 lines long : staminodia deeply cleft, exceeding 

 the anthers: capsule sessile, ovate, 5 lines long including the short thick 

 style: cells several-ovuled, usually 1-seeded : seed 2 lines long. Common 



