LILIACEJE. (lily FAJnLT.) 117 



Bulb-scales mostly short, very thick; the flowers 18 lines or less in length; frcquentlj' 



mottled. 



* Capsule rather ohtu-tehj angled; bulb-scales 3 or 4 lines long. 



1. F. recurva, Bcnth. Bulb-scales numerous ami thick; leaves linear-lanceolate, 

 mostly in two whorls near the middle of the stem; flowers 1 to 7, tinged or blotched 

 with light pnrplc or scarlet, 12 to 18 lines long; segments narrowly oblanceolate with 

 recurved tips; . stamens shorter, equaling the very slender style. Sierra Nevada. 



2. F. liliacea, Lindl. (Green Lily.) Bulb-scales few, very thick; leaves oblan- 

 ceolate to linear, approximate or whorled near the base; flowers 1 to 5 greenish white 

 (not blotched), 8 to 12 lines long, segments oblanceolate, spreading; style stout. 



3. F. biflora, LiucTl. Usually low; bulb-scales few, ovoid, often tipped with a 

 small scarious blade; leaves narrowly lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, few, scattered or 

 somewhat whorled near the base : flowers 1 to 3, dark brownish or greenish purple, seg- 

 ments widely spreading; capsule broadly obovoid. 



* * Capsule acutely angled or winged; bidb-scales thick, about G lines long, 



4. F. lanceolata, Pursh. Leaves in 1 to 3 whorls above the middle of the stem; 

 flowers 1 or 2, brownish purple mottled with greenish yellow; segments narrowly oblan- 

 ceolate; stamens G or 8 lines long. 



Var. floribunda, Bcnth. Flowers 4 to 8, or rarely fewer, greenish yellow blotched 

 with 23urplc; segments 4 to 6 lines broad, strongly arched with broad nectaries, acute; 

 lower pedicels an inch long or more. 



Var. gracilis, Wat. Flowers smaller than the last with narrow and more acuminate 

 segments; stamens short. There are at least two other varieties witL small flowers in 

 the Sierra Xevada. * 



F. plurifloia, Torr., with styles united to the summit, a tall species with reddish 

 purple flowers, grows in the Sierra Nevada. 



13. CALOCHORTUS, Pursh. 



Flowers mostly large and showy, broadly campanulate; the outer segments sepaloid, 

 the inner dilated and mostly with pitted and bearded or crested glands. Stigmas sessile, 

 distinct, recurved, persistent. Capsule usually deeply triquetrous. Stem usually 

 branched and lax or flexuous, from a coated corm, sparingly leafy; leaves with transverse 

 veinlets. 



Inner perianth-segments strongly arched and broadly pitted, the gland usually with a 

 transverse scale or fringe; flowers or fruit more or less nodding, and stem usually lax. — 

 § 1. Euculijchortus. 



Flowers open-eampamilate with usually densely hairy glands witliout scales; outer seg- 

 ments often hairy or glandular within; pedicels stout, erect; stems stouter. — § 2. Mari- 

 posa. 



§ 1. Eucahjchortus. 



* Floivers suhglobose, nodding ; stem iisualbj tall and branching. 



