WOOTON AND STANDLEY—FLORA OF NEW MEXICO, 143 
New Mexico: Glorieta; West Fork of the Gila; near Fort Defiance; Nara Visa. 
Low hills, in the Upper Sonoran Zone. 
2. DIPTEROSTEMON Rydb. 
Flowers few, umbellate on unequal rays, bluish purple, broadly funnelform, with a 
short tube; stamens 6, the inner wing-appendaged. 
1. Dipterostemon pauciflorus (Torr.) Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 39: 111. 1912. 
Brodiaea capitata pauciflora Torr. U. 8S. & Mex. Bound. Bot. 218. 1859. 
Dichelostemma pauciflorum Standley, Contr. U. 8S. Nat. Herb. 13: 179. 1910. 
Tyre Locauity: Near the Copper Mines, New Mexico. Type collected by Bigelow. 
Rance: Southwestern New Mexico and southern Arizona. 
New Mexico: Mangas Springs; Santa Rita. Upper Sonoran Zone. 
3. MILLA Cav. 
Flowers white, the perianth segments with greenish midribs, salverform with a 
narrowly turbinate tube, usually 2 to each scape; stamens nearly sessile, the anthers 
fixed by the base; capsules oblong-obovate, sessile. 
1. Milla biflora Cav. Icon. Pl. 2: 76. pl. 196. 1794. 
Type Loca.ity: ‘‘ Habitat in Imperio Mexicano.”’ 
RANGE: Southern New Mexico and Arizona and southward. 
New Mexico: Animas Valley (Mearns 2513). Low hills. 
Both this and the preceding plant are well worthy of cultivation and would probably 
thrive in southern New Mexico. 
24, LILIACEAE. Lily Family. 
Perennial, mainly caulescent herbs, with bulbs or corms; leaves alternate or whorled, 
sometimes basal or apparently basal; flowers solitary or in terminal racemes, corymbs, 
or panicles; perianth conspicuous and showy; sepals and petals similar, sometimes 
partly united; gyncecium of 3 united carpels; ovary superior, 3-celled; styles united; 
fruit a loculicidal capsule, globular or elongated. 
KEY TO THE GENERA. 
Perianth segments united into along tube; flowers white.. 1. Leucocrinum (p. 143). 
Perianth segments distinct or nearly so; flowers white or 
colored. 
Bulbs tunicated; flowers white.......--.----------- 4. Luoypta (p. 144). 
Bulbs scaly; flowers not white. 
Flowers large, 6 or 7 cm. long; perianth segments 
clawed.......-------------------- ....-- 2. Litrum (p. 144). 
Flowers small, 2 cm. long or less; perianth seg- 
ments not clawed............------------ 3. Frrivrinuarta (p. 144). 
1. LEUCOCRINUM Nutt. Waire MOUNTAIN LILY. 
Plants acaulescent, with numerous leaves from a short rootstock and a cluster of 
fleshy roots; flowers few to many from the crown, white, 3 to 5 cm. long. 
1. Leucocrinum montanum Nutt.; A. Gray, Ann. Lyc. N. Y. 4: 110. 1848. 
Typr Loca.ity: ‘‘In planitiebus altis fluminis Platte.”’ 
Rance: Oregon and South Dakota to Nevada and northern New Mexico. 
New Mexico: Dulce; Raton. Open slopes. 
