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LILIACE^E. 



sheathing the stem. Flowers in bracted racemes terminating the 

 branches. Perianth with a narrow tube and with the limb divided 

 into 6 soon reflexed segments, the outer 3 slightly longer and 

 cucullate at tip; stamens 6, inserted on the throat and alternating 

 with as many short staminodia, those opposite the outer segments 

 longer; the stamen opposite the lower outer segment stands alone and 

 faces the remaining 5, which approximate each other by their 

 filaments on the upper side of the flower. Ovules 2 in each cell but 

 only 1 maturing. Capsule obovate, 3-lobed, loculicidal. (Greek 

 odous, tooth, and stoma, mouth, on account of the erect subulate 

 filaments at the throat of the flower. ) 



L O. Hartwegi Torr. Plants erect with somewhat spreading 

 branches, 5 to 10 in. high; corm about 1 in. broad, 5 to 7 in. below the 

 surface of the ground; radical leaves 3 to 9 in. long, 2 to 3 lines wide 

 with caudate-attenuate apex; racemes 2 to 5 \n. long; bracts and 

 bractlets subulate; perianth-tube 3 lines long; reflexed segments 

 nearly or quite as long, narrowly oblong, 5 or 6-nerved, H to 2£ lines 

 long. 



Dry hard soil in the middle North Coast Range (Napa Valley 

 foothills, Jepson); hill country west of Red Bluff, Jepson; Sierra 

 Foothills, upper Sacramento Valley, Hartweg; Mariposa Co., Congdon. 

 Mav. 



6. BREVOORTIA Wood. 



Scape erect from a corm, bearing a few-flowered umbel with 

 jointed pedicels. Leaves linear. Perianth-tube scarlet, persistent, 

 broadly tubular, slightly 6-saccate at the truncate base, slightly 

 constricted above; segments chrome-green, short, erect or sometimes 

 reflexed. Stamens 3, inserted on the throat opposite the inner seg- 

 ments, their filaments very short; anthers emarginate or bifid at each 

 end and innate; staminodia 3, alternating with the stamens, broad, 

 truncate, corona-like. Capsule triangular-ovate, acuminate, stipitate. 

 (Dedicated to J. Carson Brevoort of Brooklyn, New York, naturalist 

 and patron of science.) 



1. B. Ida-Maia Wood. Ida May's Fire Crackers. Scape 

 slender, erect, 1 to 3 ft. high, bearing an umbel of 6 to 13 flowers; 

 pedicels 1£ in. long, or less; perianth-tube 1 to 1^ in. long, the 

 segments broadly ovate, obtuse, 2 or. 3 lines long; staminodia white; 

 stipe of the capsule 2 or 3 lines long; seeds angular, black. 



Wooded foothills from Marin Co. northward. Common in Men- 

 docino and Humboldt, but the plants scattered, not in masses as is 

 often the case with Brodiaea. May-July. 



7. HOOKERA Salisb. Brodi^a. 

 Scapes from corms, erect and straight, or sometimes elongated and 

 twining. Leaves mostly few and grass-like. Umbels loose or 

 capitate. Pedicels jointed beneath the perianth. Perianth-tube 

 various. Stamens 6, or the alternate stamens replaced by dilated 

 sterile filaments or staminodia. Filaments slender or more frequently 



