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LILIACEAE 



10. Erythronium purpurascens S. Wats. Purple Fawn Lily 



Erythroiiium purpurascens S. Wats, 

 '12: 277. 1877. 



Fig. 



1054. 



c. Am. Acad. 



Leaves narrowly lanceolate to oblong-lan- 

 ceolate, 10-15 cm. long, undulate, not mottled, 

 narrowed to the broadly winged petiole ; scape 

 10-25 cm. high, bearing a single flower or 

 generally a 2-8-flowered raceme ; pedicels very 

 unequal. 5-40 mm. long ; perianth-segments 

 12-15 mm. long, lanceolate, spreading, light 

 yellow tinged with purple, deep orange at base ; 

 filaments very slender ; anthers yellow, 3 mm. 

 long ; styles clavate ; stigma obscurely 3-lobed. 



Moist granitic soils, Canadian Zone; Sierra Nevada, 

 from Plumas to Nevada Counties, California. Type 

 locality: near Downieville, Sierra County. 



11. Erythronium howellii S. Wats. 

 Howell's Fawn Lily. Fig. 1055. 



Erythronium howellii S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 22: 480. 1887. 



Corm narrowly oblong, 3-4 cm. long. Leaves mottled, 

 oblong-lanceolate' or generally lanceolate, 8-15 cm. long, 

 15^0 mm. wide, attenuate at base to a narrowly winged 

 petiole; scape 1-4-flowered, slender; perianth-segments 

 pale yellow with an orange base, tinged with pink in age, 

 without auriculate appendages; filaments very slender; 

 anthers white, 4 mm. long; style clavate; stigma obscurely 

 3-lobed. 



Open woods. Transition Zone; Siskiyou Mountains, southern 

 Oregon, south to Trinity Mountains, California. Type locality: 

 Waldo, Josephine County, Oregon. 



1812. 



20. LLOYDIA Salisb. Trans. Hort. Soc. 1: 328. 

 Dwarf-caulescent herb with tunicated bulb arising from a creeping rootstock. Leaves 

 narrow grass-like. Flowers white, solitary or in a terminal raceme. Perianth-segments with a 

 transverse fold-like gland near the base. Stamens 6, separate; filaments subulate; anthers 

 basifixed, dehiscent by marginal slits. Ovary triangular, 3-celled; ovules numerous m 2 rows 

 in each cavity, anatropous ; style persistent; stigma 3-lobed. Capsule loculicidal at apex. 

 [Name in honor of George Lloyd.] 



About 12 species, mainly European and Asiatic, only the following in America. Type species, Lloydia 

 serotina (L.) S. Wats. 



1. Lloydia serotina (L.) S. Wats. 

 Alp Lily. Fig. 1056. 



Anthericnm scrotiiuiin T-. Sp. PI. ed. 2. 1: 444. 



1762. 

 Llovdia alpina Salisb. Trans. Hort. Soc. 1: 328. 



"1872. 

 Llovdia serotina S. Wats.; Hort. Brit. ed. 2. 527. 



"1830. 



Bulb oblong, covered with grayish fibrous 

 coats, ending in a creeping rootstock. Stem 

 slender erect, 5-15 cm. high; leaves several, 

 5-10 cm. long, 1-2 nun. wide ; flowers usually 

 solitary, broadly turbinate ; perianth-segments 

 oblanc'eolate, about 1 cm. long, obtuse, creamy 

 white, purple-veined and tinged with rose on 

 the back ; stamens about two-thirds the 

 length of the perianth-segments ; filaments 

 slender; anthers 1 mm. long; style 2 mm. 

 long; capsule obovoid, 8 mm. long. 



Wet rocks, Arctic- Alpine Zone; Unalaska to 

 Oregon, Nevada and New Mexico. Type locality: 

 Europe. 



