116 LILIACE^. (lily FAIMLLLY.) 



M. bifolium, DO. Somewhat pubescent; about six inches high; leaves ovate-cor- 

 date with a broad sinus; style long and slender; berry 2 lines in diameter. 



10. YUCCA, L. 



Perianth campanulate, white or whitish; segments ovate-lanceolate, many nerved. 

 Filaments clavate; anthers small. Style stout and persistent (or none); the emarginate 

 stigmas connate into a stigmatic tube. 



1. Y. "Wliipplei, Torr. Caudex none or short; leaves rigid, serrulate, smooth, 

 ending in a brown spine; scape 4 to 12 ft. high with imbricated sheathing bracts; panicle 

 narrow and spike-like, dense; greenish-white flowers sub-rotate; segments oblong, 

 lanceolate, 1 or 2 inches long; stigma slightly 3-lobed. 



11. LILIUM, Tourn. Lily. 

 Perianth-segments spreading or recurved, with a honey-bearing furrow at the base. 

 Anthers linear, distinctly versatile. Style long; stigma 3-lobed. Capsule not sharply 

 angled ; seeds flat. Stem simple, bearing many whorled or scattered sessile leaves and 

 one to many showy flowers. 



* Perianth-segments narroiuing gradualhj into a claio. 



1. Ii. rubescens, Wat. Leaves oblanceolate more or less verticillate; flowera 

 ascending or nearly erect, usually U or 2 inches long, with re volute segments, pale 

 lilac or nearly white, becoming rose-purple; anthers 2 or 3 lines long. 



L. Washingtonianum, Kellogg, of the northern counties, is much larger, the 

 fragrant white flowers 3 or 4 inches long. 



* * Perianth-segments oblanceolate, yelloio or orange, coarsely spotted with hrown. 



2. L. maritimum, Kellogg. Stem rather low; leaves usually scattered; narrow, 

 often obtuse; flowers solitary or few, horizontal, 1.^ to 2 inches long, deep reddish- 

 orange. Style and stamens short, anthers 2 lines long. 



3. L. pardalinum, Kellogg (Tiger Lily). Rhizome thick and branching; scales 

 jointed below; leaves flat, smooth, narrowly lanceolate to linear, the middle in whorls of 

 9 to 15; flowers bright orange red, lighter to yellow in the center, 2 or 3 inches long; 

 segments strongly re volute; anthers 4 or 5 lines long. 



L. Paerti, Wat., of San Bernadino Co., has pale yellow flowers. 



L. PAE%-rM Kellogg, of the Sierra Nevada, has small yellow or orange flowers on large stems from 



rhizomatous bulb. , , ., .^ ,. i ^v. r, ,t, 



L. OoLUMBiANUM, Haxson, of the northern Sierra Nevada, resembles L. Pardaltnum; but the bulb 



is small, not rhizomatous. . ,. , , 



L. HuMBOLDTii, closely resembles the last, but has a large bulb, 10 to 20 leaves in a whorl, larger 



flowers and an obovoid capsule. 



12. FRITILLARIA, L. 



Perianth segments mostly broader than iu L ilium, and concave; the anthers more 

 obscurely versatile. Nectary a shallow pit. Styles united to the middle in our species. 



