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LILIACEiE. 



other 3 which are sessile on the tube; stipe of capsule 1 to 2 lines 

 long. — (Brodia?a peduncularis Wats.) 



Very wet ground close to water. "Clear Lake Kegion, Torrey; " 

 Point Reyes, Davy (but anthers opposite outer segments not sessile). 



10. H. hyacinthina (Lindl.) var. lactea (Baker). White 

 Brodi^a. Scapes 1 to If ft. high; umbels 20-flowered, more or less; 

 pedicels rather over 1 in. long; perianth open-campanulate, cleft below 

 the middle, white or bluish white with green mid-veins, 5 to 7 lines 

 long; filaments with broadly triangular and slightly united bases, 

 attenuate above and tipped with an anther J line long; ovary with 3 

 glandular pits towards the summit; capsule short-stipitate. — (Brodisea 

 lactea Wats.) 



Common in low moist ground: North Coast Kanges; Monterey Co. 

 May-June. 



8. BLOOMERIA Kell. 



Scape from a fibrous-coated corm. Leaves linear, carinate. Umbel 

 with many } T ellow flowers; pedicels jointed at the summit and sub- 

 tended by membranaceous bracts. Perianth persistent, of 6 nearly 

 equal distinct linear-oblong segments. Stamens 6, inserted on the 

 base of and rather shorter than the segments; filaments filiform, 

 surrounded at base by a cup-like appendage which is free from the 

 perianth. Capsule subglobose; seeds 4 to 8 in each cell, angular and 

 wrinkled; style persistent and splitting with the loculicidal capsule. 

 (In honor of H. G. Bloomer, a pioneer botanist of San Francisco.) 



1. B. aurea Kell. Golden Bloomeria. Scapes 6 to 9 in. high, 

 minutely scabrous; bulb deeply seated, 6 to 8 lines in diameter; leaves 

 2, one of them very long, as long as the scape; pedicels 30 to 45, 1£ 

 to 2 in. long; bracts several, subulate-lanceolate; perianth-segments 

 narrowly oblong, subrotate when in full anthesis, 5 to 6 lines 

 long; appendages minutely papillose; capsule nearly 3 lines long. 



South Coast Ranges: Pacheco Pass, Brewer; southeastward and 

 southwestward to New Idria, Veatch (who first collected it); Kern 

 Co.; and Monterey. June. 



9. MUILLA Wats. 



Herbage without the taste or odor of onions. Scape from a fibrous- 

 coated corm and bearing an umbel subtended by several small 

 scarious bracts. Leaves very narrow, almost terete. Bracts 4 to 6, 

 broadly or narrowly lanceolate. Perianth subrotate, persistent, of 6 

 nearly equal slightly united oblong-lanceolate segments, greenish or 

 yellowish white with a dark 2-nerved mid-rib. Stamens inserted 

 near the base; filaments filiform, slightly thicker below; anthers 

 versatile. Ovules 8 to 10 in each cell; style clavate, persistent and 

 at length splitting. Capsule globose, scarcely lobed, loculicidal. 

 Seeds compressed and angled. (Anagram of Allium.) 



1. M. maritima Wats. Corm 4 to 5 lines in diameter; scapes 3 to 

 9 in. high, equaled by the narrow (£ to 1 line wide) leaves; umbels 

 4 to 12-flowered, the pedicels unequal", 2 to 10 lines long; bracts 4 to 



