Liliaceae 101 
HOOKERA (Brodiaea) FOOL’S ONION 
Perennial; corms coated, with fibrous membranes: stem scapose. Leaves narrow. 
Flowers blue or purple or white or yellow, solitary or in a bracted umbel, on jointed 
pedicels. Perianth of united segments, persistent, narrowly funnelform to campanulate, 
not contracted at the throat, not saccate or only slightly so; segments |-veined. Sta- 
mens either 6, of which | is opposite each perianth-segment and more or less united 
with it; or only 3, the 3 outer replaced by staminodia. Ovules 3—8 in each cell; style 
persistent, about equaling the anthers; stigmas 3, short, divergent. Capsule ovate-oblong, 
more or less attenuate above. Seeds angled, black. (Honor of J. Hooker, an English 
botanist. ) 
A. Stamens with anthers 3, alternating with 3 antherless staminodia; anthers basi- 
fixed; capsule subsessile. 
B. Scapes 7—25 cm. high; pedicels 12—100 mm. long; capsules about 6 mm. 
long. W. (B. grandiflora; B. minor.) 
H. coronaria Salisb. (Harvest Fool’s-onion) 
BB. Scapes 30—120 cm. high; pedicels 2—6 mm. long; capsule about 10 mm. 
long. 
C. Scape 6—12 dm. high, smooth; umbel often elongated into a dense short 
raceme ; staminodia deeply cleft, projecting beyond the anthers; seeds usually 
I in each cell. W.C. (B. congesta.) 
H. pulchella Salisb. (Ookow) 
CC. Scape 3—6 dm. high, somewhat scabrous; umbel never elongated; stamino- 
dia entire, obtuse, about equaling the anthers; seeds several in each cell. U. (pe 
H. multiflora (Benth.) Britten, Journ, Gor. 2¥;, 5h IF ‘ 
AA. Stamens with anthers 6; anthers versatile (except in H. capitata) ; capsule stipitate 
(except in H. capitata.) 
D. Perianth blue or purple or white. 
E. Perianth-lobes from slightly longer to much shorter than the tube; perianth 
usually blue or purple, but sometimes white. 
F. Stamens in 2 rows. 
G. Filaments of the inner row of stamens narrow; flowers dark blue. E. : 
H. douglasii Pip. Worse) 
GG. Filaments of the inner row of stamens broad; flowers light blue. 
H.  Perianth lobes nearly as long as the tube. W. E. 
H. howellii Pip. 
HH. Perianth-lobes much shorter than the tube. E. 
H. bicolor Pip. 
FF. Stamens in one row. 
I. Perianth 1.2—2 cm. long, the lobes slightly longer than the tube; pedi- 
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II. Perianth 2.5—3 cm. long, the lobes slightly shorter than the tube; ped- 
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EE.  Perianth-lobes more than twice as long as the tube; perianth white, with 
green mid-vein; stamens in 2 rows. W.E. (B. lacta.) 
H. hyacintha\ Kuntze \ 
DD. Perianth yellow, with blue mid-veins; stamens in 2 rows. U. 
H. hendersoni (Wats.) 
