88 Liliaceae 



9. LILIUM L. Lilt. 



Tall bulbous herbs, with Bimple leafy Btems and Large 

 erect or drooping flowers. Perianth deciduous funnel- 

 form or campanulate, <>f 6 distinct spreading or recurved 

 segments, each with a nectar-bearing groove at its base 

 within. Stamens 6, mostly shorter than the perianth, 

 slightly attached to the segments ; filaments filiform or 

 subulate; anthers linear versatile. Ovules numerous; style 

 Long somewhat clavate above; stigma 3-lobed. ( Sapsule ob- 

 long or obovoid loculicidally dehiscent. Seeds numer- 

 ous flat, packed in '2 rows in each cell. 



1. Li. Humboltii Roezl. & Leicht. Bulbs large, 5-15 cm. in 

 diameter, white or purplish; stems stout, purplish, puberulent or 

 glabrous, 15-30 dm. high; leaves usually in 4-fi whorls of 10-20 

 each, oblanceolate, undulate, 10-15 cm. long, 20-25 mm. wide, 

 acute, somewhat scabrous or pubescent on the margins and 

 beneath; flowers usually many on short and widely spreading 

 pedicels, 7-15 cm. long or more, scattered; segments 6-10 cm. 

 long, 12-24 mm. broad, reflexed, strongly revolute above the shorl 

 abruptly narrowed claw, reddish-orange with maroon spots, 

 papillose-rigid toward the base; stamens 4-5 cm. long, about 

 equaling the style; anthers oblong, 8-1 fi mm. long, red ; capsule 

 large, obovoid, acutely 6-angled. 



Frequent in canyons of the San Gabriel and Santa Monica Mountains. 

 June-July. 



10. FRITILL.ARIA L. Mission Bells. 



Stems erect from scaly bulbs with thick fleshy scales. 

 Leaves scattered or verticillate, mostly narrow and 

 sessile. Flowers solitary or racemose Leafy-braeted, 

 mostly dull-colored, nodding. Perianth campanulate or 

 funnelform deciduous, of 6 distinct equal oblong-oblance- 

 olate concave segments, more or less blotched or tinged 

 with purple or yellow or white ami with a smooth nectar- 

 iferous pit near the base. Stamens inserted on the base 

 of the segments ; filaments slender ; anthers oblong ver- 



