104 EKYTHEA. 



overlapping closely, either in one long or two shorter joints; stems 2 

 to 6 feet high, terete, smooth, dark green ; leaves scattering below, 

 but in whorls of 5 to 12 (or more) in the middle of stem, lanceolate, 

 acute, 2 to 4 inches long, 3 to 4 lines wide, shining green, smooth; 

 flowers from a few to 15, umbellate or racemose; when many, often 

 6 or 7 will be produced in a cii'cle below with the upper scattering ; 

 pedicels 3 to 9 inches long, nodding at top; segments of periau.ii 

 1 J to 2^ inches long, the lower broadly lance-ovate, 4 to 6 lines 

 wide, oftener blunt at tip, sometimes acuminate, broadly over- 

 lapping at base and forming the lower perianth of a broad tube ; the 

 upper § of the segments revolute (at length) to the pedicel (the 

 outer segments soon become revolute, the inner tardily so, for some 

 days broadly spreading); lower § of segments light orange red, 

 thickly spotted with roundish black spots; upper ^ a deep crimson ; 

 the style straight, green |- included in the tube; stamens little longer, 

 spreading but little from style; anthers oblong, 2 inches long, dark 

 red ; capsule not known. 



From boggy places in barrens and woods about Humboldt Br.y 

 to above Areata ; this lily takes the place which from San Francisco 

 to Mendocino County is filled by L. maritimiim. It is the sea- 

 coast lily of Humboldt County, Cal. Liliuvi niaritimuni extends 

 no further than Ten Mile River in Mendocino County. The L. 

 mariiimuvt reported from Humboldt County, Bot. Cal., p. 166, is 

 L. occidentalis. The fact that it has the most westerly extension of 

 any American lily, may pardon the name. Its nearest relative is 

 L. tnaritimum, which it resembles in habitat, bulb, leaves, style and 

 stamens and in the dark red of its perianth tips. Its larger flowers, 

 with long revolute lobes, strongly separate it from that species. Its 

 bulb is very different from L, pardalimcm, as also the style, stamens 

 and coloring, although there is a suggestion of L. pardalmu-ni in 

 the full flower. Another link in the long chain of lilies. 



Lilium Bakerii. Following Baker's synopsis of lilies this species 

 falls in sub-genus V, Martagon, and is nearest toZ,. Columbianum. 

 Bulb ovoid, exactly as in L. Columbianum; stem 2 to 6 feet high, 

 bearing few to 10 flowers, rather stout, green, smooth, terete 

 leaves lanceolate, light green, mostly in whorls ; inflorescence race- 

 mose; flowers horizontal; buds nodding; segments of jierianth \\ 

 inches long, 5 lines wide, acute, lower \ of segments forming a closely 



