266 LILIACEAE 



obtuse, 5 to 9 lines long, greenish margined at base, greenish glands at base of 

 segments 2, or one and Y-shaped, often denticulate or erose at apex; capsule 

 walls tirm-ehartaceous ; seeds broadly wing-margined. 



Wet flats and about springs, a characteristic plant of meadows in the Sierra 

 Nevada at 4500 to 8500 feet ; also in the North Coast Ranges and high mountains 

 of Southern California. North to Washington, east to Colorado and south into 

 Mexico. Often reported as poisonous to stock and sometimes called False Helle- 

 bore. July-Aug. 



Loes. — North Coast Ranges: Sisson, Jcpsan 5796; Log Lake, Shackelford Creek, Butter 

 534; Trinity Simimit, Manning; Dinsniore Ranch, Van Duzen River, Traey 4280; South Yollo 

 BoUy, Jcpson (perianth segments oblong-lanceolate); Sherwood, Davy. Sierra Nevada: Mt. 

 Bidwell, Manning ; Bear Valley, Nevada Co., Jepson; Silver Lake, Amador Co., E. MuUiken 

 134; Rancheria Mt., Jepson 4603; Lake Merced, Jepson 3195; Little Kern River, Ciilbertson 

 4322; Hassock Mdw., Tule River, ace. Eopping. Southern California: Bluff Lake, San Ber- 

 nardino Mts., Pettibon-e; Mt. San Jacinto, Jepson 2324; Palomar, McClatchie. 



Refs. — Ver^vtrum californicum Dur. Jour. Acad. Phila. ser. 2, 3:103 (1835), type loc. 

 near Nevada City, Pratten; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 123 (1901). 



2. V. viride Ait. Similar to V. californicum in habit; branches of the 

 panicle more or less drooping ; principal bracts foliaceous ; perianth green, about 

 4 lines long. 



Subalpine meadows, Siskiyou Co. North to Ala.ska, east to New Brunswick, 

 thence south to Georgia. 



Loc. — Salmon Mts., Butler 536. Our only known locality in Cal. 



Kef. — Veratrum viride Ait. Hort. Kew 3:422 (1789), type from North America. 



.3. V. fimbriatum Gray. Similar in habit to the preceding; leaves linear- 

 lanceolate, 1-2 to l\-j feet long, 1 to 2 or 4 inches wide ; panicle V2 to l'^4 ^^^^ long, 

 its branches widely spreading; pedicels 4 lines long; perianth-segments rhom- 

 bic-ovate, 2 to 5 lines long, the margin cleft into filiform segments, except at the 

 broad base which bears two oblong more or less glandular spots reaching to the 

 middle of the segment and separated by a furrow ; capsule walls mendiranous ; 

 seeds green, scarcely margined. 



Vicinity of the eoa.st, Jlendocino "White Plains" or pine barrens. July. 



Loes. — Ft. Bragg, W. C. Mathcn-s; Albion, Davy. 



Refs. — Veratrum fimbri.^.tum Grav, Proc. Am. Acad. 7:391 (1868), type loc. Mendocino 

 coast plain, Bolander; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 123 (1901). 



4. V. insolitum Jepson n. sp. Stems 4 to 5 feet high; leaves elliptic, acute, 

 7 to 8 inches long, the uppermost lanceolate, 6 to 7 inches long or less; panicle 

 11 to 20 inches long, composed of elongated lanate-tomento.se racemes ; perianth- 

 segments white. 3 to 4 lines long, obovate. mostly obtuse, irregularly eiliate or 

 erose, or the inner segments irregularly and very shallowly fimbriate, all with 2 

 dark glandular spots at base; ovary densely woolly; capsule unknown. — (Folia 

 elliptica acuta uue. 7-8 longa, summa lanceolata; panicula racemis elongatis 

 lanato-tomentosis ; segmenta perianthii lin. 3-4 longa, alba obovata impariter 

 erosa, ciliata vel breviter fimbriata, basi maeulis duabus atratis glanduliferis ; 

 ovarium tomentosissimum. ) 



Red-clay hills, in chaparral, Del Norte Co. Also west fork Illinois River, 

 southern Oregon. 



Loes.— Adams Sta. to Shelley Creek, Jfjjsow 2915 (type) ; Red Hill (South Fork Smith 

 River), Jepson 2900. 



7. LEUCOCRINUM Nutt. 

 Leaves tufted on a very short rootstock, the roots cordlike. Flowers showy, 

 pure white, fragrant, in a central cluster on the ground, the pedicels arising 

 directly from the rootstock. Perianth iiersistent, salverform, its tube slender, 

 very much elongated, its segments oblong-lanceolate. Stamens 6. inserted near 

 the summit of the tube. Ovary ovate-oblong, seated below the ground at the 



