118 LILIACE^. (lily family.) 



1. C. albus, Dougl. (Snowy Lily-Bell.) Stem 1 to 3 ft. high; flowers white with 

 purplish base; jietals acutish, an inch long; bearded and ciliate; gland lunate, with four 

 transverse imbricate fringed scales. 



2. C. pulchellus, Dougl. (Gold'cn Lily-Bell.) Stem usually a foot high or more; 

 flowers yellow or orange; petals ciliate and bearded with glandular tipped hairs, deeply 

 pitted, the gland covered by the retiexed stiff hairs of its upper margin. Coast Range. 



* * Floioers camj)anulate, erect ivhen open; pedicels hecomituj recurved; stem motstli/ low 

 and flowers often subumbellate. 



3. C. Benthami, Baker. Resembling the last; stem low and leaves narrow; the 

 yellow flowers nearly erect, petals 6 lines long, mostly obtuse, often deep brown at base. 

 Sierra Nevada. 



4. C. Maweanus, Leichtlin. Low, usually branched; bracts an inch long or more; 

 petals white, purplish at base, hairy, 6 to S lines long, somewhat pitted, the gland cov- 

 ered by a broad semicircular scale. Coast Range. 



5. C. caeruleus, Wat. Low, umbellately 2-.5-flowered; pedicels very slender, 

 petals G or 7 lines long, hairy, lilac dotted and lined with blue, the gland covered by a 

 fringed scale; capsule orbicular or nearly so, 6 lines long. Sierra Nevada. 



6. C. nudus, Wat. Low; leaf solitary, 3 to 10 lines broad; bracts rarely an inch 

 long; flowers 1 to 6 in an umbel; petals 4 to 10 lines long, white or pale lilac, without 

 hairs, denticulate. Sierra Nevada. 



7. C. lilacinus, Kellogg. Stem bulbiferous near the base, with broad leaves and 

 long conspicuous bracts; flowers 4 to 10, on long pedicels in 1 to 3 umbels; petals pale 

 lilac with jrarplish claw, 6 to 12 lines long; somewhat hairy below the middle; gland 

 ciliate-margined, scale narrow; capsule elliptical, an inch long. Coast Range. 



8. C uniflorus. Hook & Arn. Stem very short, bulbiferous, 1-2-flowered; petals 



lilac with. purplish claw, the lower half hairy above the small purple densely hairy 



gland. Coast Range. 



§ 2. Mariposa. Butterfly Lily. 



* Flowers yellow or orange, marked with brown or purple. 



9. C. Weedii, Wood. Corm fibrous coated; stem leafy, 1-3-flo wared; lej^ves con- 

 volute; sepals with a slightly hairy brown spot; petals deep yellow, dotted and often 

 margined with purple, covered with slender hairs and ciliate an inch longer more; gland 

 small, densely hairy. Coast Range. 



10. C. luteus, Dougl. Stem bulbiferous near the base, 1-6-flowered; leaves nar- 

 row; sepals narrowly lanceolate with a brown spot; petals an inch or two long, yellow to 

 deep orange, lined with brownish purple especially on the middle where it is slightly 

 haii-y; claw purplish; gland round or somewhat lunate, densely covered with ascending 

 hairs. Variable in color and markings, perhaps running into C. venustus. Coast and 

 Sierra Nevada. 



