160 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CALIFORNIA 



On Lilium Bloomerianum. 



BY A. KELLOGG, M.D. 



Root a slightly-oblong, broadly-conic, scaly bulb, somewhat laterally 

 compressed ; scales lanceolate, fleshy, elliptically incurved ; two to three 

 inches long : somewhat loosely set; often oblique or progressively developed, but 

 not creeping. Stem terete; very short-pubescent above and somewhat ^scab- 

 rous ; purplish, smooth and glaucous below ; six to eight feet high. Leaves 

 broadly oblanceolate, acute or sub-acuminate ; five to seven — rarely nine nerved ; 

 nerves pubescent underneath ; margins of leaves and foliaceous bracts slightly 

 scabrous ; waved, varnished above ; glabrous and shining beneath ; veins anas- 

 tomosing or reticulate ; whorled in verticels of six to twenty mostly ; somewhat 

 scattered above and below. Peduncles alternate ; long and widely divaricate — 

 often at an obtuse or depressed angle. Flcwers nodding, large, loosely-recurved, 

 bell-shaped ; claws of the three inner petals short — about one-fourth of an inch 

 — and somewhat crested ; claws of the three outer narrower petals longer — one- 

 half of an inch ; light orange-color, with madder brown velvet-like spots. Pistil 

 three-parted or lobed — sometimes cleft half inch or so. 



This is the most magnificent lily of the Pacific coast. Piduncles are 

 often ten inches to a foot in length, and so widely spread as to be slightly re- 

 flexed. Flowers larger, tighter, looser and rarely revolute ; much more open and 

 flexuous top than the L. superbum ; eight to twelve in number, or, in the most 

 robust specimens, twenty to thirty. 



This lily is easily discriminated from all others in any stage of its growth. 

 The bulb is purplish. Its first bud above ground is always purple, which hue it 

 bears in stem, leaves and bracts, in every stage of its growth. The cotyledonoid 

 scattered leaves at the base of the stem perish early, as the proper whorls ap- 

 pear, leaving, however, scars to record their presence. The bulbs are larger 

 than those of any other California lily. It offsets sparingly, and is not " somewhat 

 creeping," as in L. pardalinum, which offsets abundantly. In its habit of growth 

 no one would mistake it for L. superbum. 



Dr. Kellogg exhibited a painting of this large Mountain Lily, to which the 

 attention of the Academy had been directed about twelve years since. As 

 stated and shown at that time, he still held it sufficiently distinct from all others 

 to entitle it to a specific description. Out of respect to its time-honored culti- 

 vator, Mr. H. G. Bloomer, he offered the provisional name of Liliura Bloomeri - 

 anum — Kellogg. 



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Professor Bolander said that lie had received from Europe a cata- 

 logue in which a lily had been named L. Humholdtii, and he 

 believed it to be the same as the plant described by Dr. Kellogg. 



Mr. Bloomer thought there were reasons for believing L. Hitm- 

 holdtii and the so-called L. Canadensis, of California, to be synon- 

 ymous with L. Pardalinum, which was described by Dr. Kellogg 

 several years ago. 



