p8 California Trees and Flowers. 



BAERIA. 



The Baerias (named in honor of Prof. Baer of the University 

 of Dorpat) are very pretty annuals, of easy culture in ordinary 

 soil. 



B. gracilis Gray. A span or more high, producing many 

 small heads of small, yellow flowers. 



BLOOMERIA. 



Bloomeria is a genus of beautiful liliaceous plants related to 

 Brodisea, and peculiar to California. 



B. aurea Kellogg. The broad glossy leaf three or four feet 

 long. The large bulb, an inch in diameter, grows six inches 

 deep in the soil, producing a tall scape bearing a large umbel of 

 showy orange colored flowers. 



B. Clevelandi Watson. A smaller plant, seldom over six 

 inches high, with umbels of bright yellow flowers. Named in 

 honor of Mr. D. Cleveland, of San Diego. 



BREVOORTIA. 



B coccinea Watson. Vegetable Firecracker. A showy 

 plant, producing a tall grass- like stem two to three feet high, 

 bearing a pendant umbel of richly colored flowers, blood crim- 

 son tipped with white, one to three inches in length. 



BRODISEA. 



The Brodiaeas have narrow grass-like leaves and slender stems 

 bearing an umbel of bright colored flowers. All are easily grown 

 and forced, doing well in clayey, rather moist soils, but should 

 be dried off at time of blooming. 



I. — BRODISEA. 



B. capitata Benth. Flower stalks slender, a foot high, 

 bearing a dense head of purple flowers. Sometimes called Wild 

 Hyacinth. 



B. capitata alba. A pure white form, prized in cultivation. 



B congesta Smith. Two to four feet high, with deeper, bril- 

 liant purple flowers 



B. multiflora Benth. Low, six inches high, bulb produc- 

 ing several slender stalks, bearing umbels of purple flowers. 



II. — HOOKERA. 



The following species are considered by some botanists to 

 form a distinct genus named Hookera. 



H . grandiflora Smith. Produces a few very large glossy 

 purple flowers. 



H. minor Wat on. Bears a loos?, spreading umbel of large 

 royal purple flowers from a short stem. A general favorite. 



