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LILIACEAE 



24. NOLINA Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 207. 1803. 



Perennial with a thick woody trunk, often much dilated at the base, 

 ous, narrowly linear, rigid, finely serrate. Flowers borne on a short nearly 

 stem in a compound racemose panicle, the main branches subtended by 

 pointed bracts. Pedicels jointed usually near the base, subtended by minute 

 Perianth small, persistent, its segments 6, 1 -nerved. Stamens 6, usually 

 fertile flowers ; filaments very short, slender. Ovary sessile, deeply 3-lobed ; 

 recurv-ed ; ovules 2 in each cell. Fruit a capsule, with a thin inflated wall, 

 irregularly, exposing the rounded light colored seeds. [Named in honor 

 French scientist of the 18th century.] 



About 24 species native of southern United States and Mexico. Type species, Noliii 



Leaves with merely roughish margins; fruit less than 12 mm. broad; seeds ovate-oblong. 



1. 

 Leaves strongly serrate; fruit 12 mm. broad; seeds subglobose. 2. 



Leaves numer- 

 naked flowering 

 foliaceous long- 



scarious bracts, 

 abortive in the 

 style very short, 

 usuallv bursting 

 of C.'P. Nolin, 



a gcorgiaita ^lichx. 



A', bigelovii. 

 N. parryt. 



1. Nolina bigelovii (Torr.) S. ^^'ats. 



Bigelow's Nolina. 



Fig-. 1102. 



Dasylirion higclovii Torr. Pacif. R. Rep. 4: 151. 1857. 

 Nolina bigelovii S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 14: 247. 1879. 



Caudex stout 6-lU dm. high. Leaves flat, 8-12 

 dm. long, about 2 cm. wide, above the dilated base, 

 roughish on the margins; scape 5-6 dm. long; 

 branches of the inflorescence slender, 5-10 cm. long, 

 jointed near the middle; perianth-segments 2 mm. 

 long, oblong-linear ; capsule 6 mm. long and about 

 as broad, its walls ver\- thin ; seeds ovate oblong, 3 

 mm. long, whitish gray, distinctly wrinkled. 



Arid gravelly slopes. Lower Sonoran Zone; western Ari- 

 zona and the desert slopes of the Cuvamaca Mountains, sovith- 

 ern California and northern Lower California. Type locality: 

 mountain sides, Williams River, Arizona. 



2. Nolina parryi S. Wats. 

 Parry's Nolina. Fig. 1103. 



Nolina parryi S. Wats. Proc. Am, Acad. 14: 247. 1879. 



Caudex unbranched, usually 1-2 m. high. 

 Leaves forming a dense crown at the apex of 

 the trunk, spreading in all directions, rigid, 

 thick and slightly concave, often 1 m. long, 

 about 2 cm. wide above the dilated base, strongly 

 serrate; flowering stalk erect, 5-6 dm. long; 

 pedicels and branches of the inflorescence 

 stout; perianth-segments 4 mm. long; capsule 

 15 mm. long, and about as broad, its walls thin ; 

 seeds subglobose, light browai, with very thin 

 transparent finely and irregularly wrinkled seed- 

 coat. 



Arid gravelly slopes. Lower Sonoran Zone; Morongo 

 Caiion, desert base of the San Bernardino Mountains to 

 the desert slopes of the San Jacinto Mountains, and the 

 interior mesas and hills of the coastal region in Riverside 

 and San Diego Counties. California. Type locality: 

 near Whitewater, desert slopes of the San Bernardino 

 Mountains. 



Family 19. CONVALLARIACEAE. 



L11.V-OF-THE-V.A.LLEY Family. 



Scapose or leafy-stemmed herbs, with simple or branched rootstocks, never 

 with bulbs or corms. Flowers solitary, racemose, paniculate or umbellate, regular 

 and perfect. Leaves broad, parallel-veined and sometimes with cross-veinlets, the 



