LILY FAMILY 



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2. MUILLA S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 14: 235. 1879. 



Scape from a fibrous corm and bearing an umbel subtended by several small scarious bracts. 

 Leaves mostly few, very narrow, nearly terete. Pedicels not jointed. Perianth subrotate, 

 persistent, of 6 nearly equal slightly united oblong-lanceolate segments, greenish or yellowish 

 white with a dark 2-nerved midrib. Stamens inserted near the base ; filaments filiform, 

 slightly thickened toward the base or petaloid ; anthers versatile. Ovules 8-10 in each cell ; 

 style clavate, persistent and at length splitting. Capsule globose, scarcely lobed, loculicidal. 

 Seeds compressed and angled. [Anagram of Alluon.] 



A California genus of 2 species. Type species, Miiilla maritiina (Toir.) S. Wats. 



Filaments more or less dilated at base, but not overlapping and crown-like; anthers lurid purple. 



Leaves very sparsely scabrous on the margins; anthers over 1 mm. long^ 1. M. maritima. 



Leaves retrorsely scabrous on the margins and striae; anthers about .75 mm. long. 



2. M. serotina. 

 Filaments hyaline-petaloid, their broad margins overlapping forming a cylindrical crown; anthers yellow. 



3. M. coronata. 



I. Muilla maritima (Torr.) S. Wats. 

 Common Muilla. Fig. 974. 



Hesperoscordum( ?) maritiiiiuin Torr. Pacif. R. Rep. 4: 



148. 1857. 

 Allium maritimum Torr. Benth. PI. Hartw. 339. 1857. 

 Muilla maritima S. Wats. Bot. King. E.xpl. 354. 1871. 



Xothoscordum maritimum Hook. f. Bot. Mag. 27 : under 

 pi. 5896. 1871. 



Muilla maritima S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 14: 235. 1879. 

 Bloomcria maritima Macbr. Contr. Gray Herb. IL 56: 8. 

 1918. 



Corm 12-18 mm. broad, usually 4-5 cm. under 

 the ground. Leaves several, semi-terete, 10-20 cm. 

 long, 2 mm. or less wide, sparsely scabrous on the 

 margins ; scapes 10-25 cm. long ; bracts 4-6, lanceo- 

 late, acuminate, mostly 3-nerved ; umbels 5-25- 

 flowered, the pedicels slender, usually 15-25 mm. 

 long ; perianth-segments greenish white, with a 

 prominent dark 2-nerved midrib, 4-5 mm. long, 

 somewhat sacculate at the ape.x, the outer oblong. 

 slightly revolute, the inner oval, plane ; filaments 

 slightly dilated at base; anthers lurid purple, 

 slightly over 1 mm. long; style 1.5 mm. long; 

 capsule subglobose, about 6 mm. high ; seeds about 

 2 mm. long. 



Subsaline soils, or stony, especially serpentine, ridges, Upper Sonoran and Transition Zones; Marin 

 County and Sacramento Valley to San Diego County. Type locality: Point Reyes. 



Muilla tenuis Congdon, Zoe 5; 135. 1901. A small slender form with leaves scarcely 1 mm. wide, and 

 pedicels tiliform; perianth-segments about 3 mm. long; anthers less than 1 mm. long; seeds scarcely 1 mm. 

 long. Described from specimens collected at Raymond, Madera County. Similar forms occur along tlie coast 

 in San Diego County. 



2. Muilla serotina Greene. 



975. 



Rough Muilla. 



Fig. 



Muilla serotina Greene, Erythea 1: 152. 1893. 



Bloomeria maritima serotina Macbr. Contr. Gray Herb. II. 

 56: 8. 1918. 



Scapes 3-5 dm. high, glabrous. Leaves 3-4 dm. 

 long, nearly terete, the upper surface plane, the lower 

 convex and sharply 7-striate, the strae and margins 

 retrorsely scabrous ; umbel 40-70-flowered ; pedicels 

 often 4 cm. long ; perianth rotate, about 12 mm. 

 broad ; greenish white ; outer segments oblong- 

 linear, the inner oblong with pit-like glands ; fila- 

 ments stout, subulate, little compressed ; anthers 

 lurid purple, .75 mm. long. 



Dry gravelly mesas and hillsides. Upper Sonoran Zone; 

 Tehachapi Mountains, southern California, to northern Lower 

 California. Type_ locality: mountains in the interior of 

 southern California. 



