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slightly notched at apex.—Meadows and marshes near the coast, 
Marin Co. n. 
3. CHLOROGALUM Kunth. 
Stems from a tunicated bulb, almost leafless, ending in a large panicle. 
Basal leaves long-linear, undulate. Perianth-segments 6, ribbon-like, per¬ 
sistent and twisted over the ovary. Stamens 6. Capsule 3-lobed. . (Greek 
chloros, green, and gala, milk or juice.) 
1. C. pomeridianum Kunth. Soap Plant. Plants 6 to 28 dm. high, 
the bulb with a dense coat of brown fibres; perianth-segments white, 1.6 
to 2.4 cm. long.—Dry fields and hillsides. The bulb was used by the 
Spanish-Californians for soap. 
4. BRODIAEA Sm. 
Scapes from corms. Leaves basal, few and grass-like. Umbels loose 
or head-like. Perianth tubular, 6-lobed or -cleft. Stamens 6, or the alter¬ 
nate ones replaced by dilated sterile filaments or staminodia; filaments 
slender or more frequently winged and produced beyond the anthers in 
the form of thin appendages. Fruit a capsule. (James Brodie, F. L. S., 
Scotch botanist.) 
Umbels loose. 
Stamens 3, alternating with staminodia. 
Scapes almost wholly subterranean ; staminodia yellowish.. .1. B. terrestris. 
Scapes 7.2 to 48 cm. high ; staminodia white or purple. 
Perianth-segments linear; throat of tube strongly constricted; sta¬ 
minodia purple...2. B. synandra. 
Perianth-segments oblong; throat of the tube little or not at all 
constricted; staminodia white......3. B. coronaria. 
Stamens 6. 
Filaments filiform; stamens in 2 rows.4. B. laxa. 
Filaments dilated. 
Flowers yellow; filaments forked at apex.5. B. ixioides. 
Flowers white; filaments with broadly triangular and slightly 
united bases . 6 . B. hyacinthina. 
Umbels capitate or congested. 
Stamens commonly 3. 
Flowers blue-purple; staminodia deeply parted..7. B. pulchella. 
Flowers rose-red or pinkish ; staminodia anther-like.8. B. volubilis. 
Stamens 6 ; bracts very conspicuous.9. B. capitata. 
1. B. terrestris Kell. Scape very short, the umbel sitting on the 
ground; perianth purple.—Monterey to Mendocino, near the coast. 
2. B. synandra (Hel.) Jepson. Scape 7.2 to 14.4 cm. high, bearing 
an umbel of 2 to 5 blue flowers on pedicels 2.4 to 6 cm. long; perianth 
tubular-campanulate; staminodia retuse, commonly longer than the sta- 
mens.—Dry or gravelly soil of the Sacramento or San Joaquin 
valleys. 
3. B. coronaria (Salisb.) Jepson. Harvest Brodiaea. Scape 1.6 to 
4.3 dm. high; umbels 3 to 11-flowered; pedicels unequal, 2.4 to 8.4 cm. 
long; perianth violet-purple, 3 to 4.2 cm. long, its tube oblong with 
rotate or recurving segments; staminodia acute, mostly shorter than the 
stamens—Common on rolling plains or foothills. 
