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4. B. laxa (Benth.) Wats. Grass Nut. Fig. 8. Scape 2.8 to 5.7 
dm. high, rigid, 
stoutish; umbel 
10 to 25-flower- 
ed; perianth 
funnel-form, 3.6 
to 4.2 cm. long, 
violet - purple: 
stamens 6, an¬ 
thers 2-lobed at 
base, all with 
distinct fila¬ 
ments ; ovary on 
a s t i p e.—Hill- 
slopes, Coast 
Ranges; Sierra 
Nevada. Sheep 
are fond of the 
herbage. 
5. B. ixioides 
(Ait. f.) Wats. 
Golden Bro- 
diaea. Scape 
1.4 to 4.3 dm. 
h i g h, usually 
scabrous: um- Fig- 8- Brodiaea laxa Wats.; a, infl. x %; b, long. sect, 
bels 16 to 26- throu g h perianth x %. 
flowered; pedicels 3 cm. long or less; perianth about 2 cm. long, salmon- 
yellow, a black-purple vein running on the outside from apex to the base 
of each segment ; stamens alternately long and short, the anthers on a 
cusp in the notch.—Foothills and mountains. 
6. B. hyacinthina (Lind!.) Baker. White Brodiaea. Scape 2.8 to 5 
dm. high; umbels 20-flowered, more or less; perianth open-campanulate, 
cleft below the middle, white or bluish-white with green midveins, 1 to 1.4 
cm. long; ovary with 3 glandular pits toward summit; pod with a short 
stipe.—Low moist ground. 
7. B. pulchella (Salisb.) Greene. Ookow. Scape 5.7 to 14 dm. high, 
often flexuous; heads dense, 6 to 16-flowered, subtended by 3 to 5 ovate 
acuminate bracts; flowers 1.4 to 1.6 cm. long; perianth-segments oblong, 
spreading; stamens with anthers 3; anthers bifid at each end, sessile.— 
Alameda Co. to Humboldt Co. and n. 
8. B. volubilis (Kell.) Baker. Snake Lily. Twining Brodiaea. 
Scape 5.7 to 8.6 dm. high, twining over bushes; umbels 18 to 30-flowered; 
flower-tube 6 to 8 mm. long and broad, 6-angled, the angles produced 
into sacs near the middle; filaments and staminodia emarginate.—Flill 
country. 
9. B. capitata Benth. Blue Dicks. Scape 1.6 to 3.3 dm. high; 
flowers blue, 7 to 8 in a head-like umbel, with about 4 dark purple or 
metallic bracts; perianth 1.4 cm. long, its lobes elliptic-ovate; stamens 
