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4. L. bolanderi Wats. Stem i/o to 21/0 feet high, 1 to 7-flowered ; bulb ovate, 

 of Humorous hinceolate seak^s 1 to IVo inches long; leaves in 3 (or i-arely 4) 

 whoi'ls with 1 to 3 smaller alternate leaves below, oblanceolate to obovate, acute 

 to obtusish, 1 to 21 o inches long, 14 to ly^ inches wide, glaucous beneath; flowers 

 horizontal or somewhat nodding, dark brownish-red to hirid purple, becoming 

 somewhat paler, spotted; segments 1^4 to 1% inches long, barely recurving. 



Dry chaparral hillsides, inside the Redw'ood belt, Mendocino Co. to Siskiyou 

 Co. Southern Oregon. July. 



Locs. — South Fork Smith River, Jepson 2891; near Preston Peak, Jepson 2886; Siskiyou 

 Mts., Blasdalc 1073. 



Refs. — LiLiUM BOLANDERI Wats. Proc. Am. Aead. 20:377 (1885), in reality based solely 

 on material from Siskiyou Mts., Howell, ace. Purdy, Garden, 59:330 (1901), and distinct from 

 Bolander 's Red Mt. plant which is L. kelloggii Purdy. 



5. L. humboldtii RoezI & Leicht. Humboldt's Lily. Stem commonly 3 to 

 5 feet high, very stout, its leaves generally purplish and slightly undulate, in 

 4 to 6 whorls; bulb large, ovoid, more or less oblique, its scales not jointed; 

 flowers large, 21/2 to 4 inches long, orange-red, spotted with small maroon or 

 pur])le sj)ots, the segments strongly recurving. 



0])en woods in lower Yellow Pine and upper chaparral belts of the Sierra 

 Nevada and cismontane Southern California, 3000 to 6000 feet. Bulb-.scales 

 possessing a remarkably bitter principle. 



Locs. — Rattlesnake Bar, Eldorado Co., Sonne; Jackson, Hansen; Tehipite Valley, Fresno 

 Co., Hall # Chandler 484; San Bernardino Mts., ace. Parish (PI. World, 20:208); Fish Canon, 

 San Gabriel Mts., Peirson 515. 



Var. bloomerianum Jepson n. comb. Bulb scales several-jointed; claws of inner perianth- 

 segments somewhat crested. — Cuyaniaca Mts. Var. ocellatum Kell. Bulb more globular, its 

 scales several-jointed ; leaves brighter green ; purple spots of tlower margined with red. — 

 Mountains from Santa Barbara to Los Angeles. Santa Rosa Isl. 



Refs. — LiLiuM HUMBOLDTII Roezl & Leicht.; Duch. Jour. Soc. Hort. France, ser. 2, 5:43 

 (1871), type from the Sierra Nevada, Eoesl, who discovered it on the centenary of the birth 

 of Alexander von Humboldt; Coniptes Rendus, 72:558 (1871); Elwes, Monog. Lil. pi. 32 

 (1880). L. caiiadeitse var. puherulum Torr. Pac. R. Rep. 4:146 (1857), type loc. "between 

 Grass Valley and Downieville, " Bigelom. Var. bloomerianum Jepson. L. iloomerianum Kell. 

 Proc. Cal. Acad. 4:160 (1872), type loc. not known. Var. ocellatum Kell. Proc. Cal. Acad. 

 5:88 (1873), type loc. Santa Rosa Isl., Harford. 



6. L. columbianum Hanson. Oregon Lily. Stem slender, 2 to 4 feet high ; 

 bulb small (1'- to 2 inches in diameter) ; upper leaves scattered, the lower in 

 whorls ; perianth-segments li/o to 2 inches long, strongly recurved, bright reddish 

 orange, thickly spotted with purple. 



Humboldt Co. North to Oregon and British Columbia. 



Ijoc. — N. Humboldt Co., coast district, aec. Tracy. 



Refs. — LiLiUM COLUMBIANUM Hanson; Baker, Jour. Linn. Soc. 14:243 (1874), type from 

 Ore., Lohb 350; Elwes, Monog. Lil. pi. 31 (1880). L. canadense var. parvifiorum Hook. Fl. 

 Bor. Am. 2:181 (1839), type loe. Columbia and Willamette rivers, Douglas, Tolmie. 



7. L. maHtimum Kell. Coast Lily. Stem 1 to 4 feet high with alternate 

 or rarely whorled leaves; bulb rhizomatous, its scales seldom more than one- 

 jointed ; leaves very dark green, narrowly oblanceolate or linear, 1 to 5 inches 

 long and 2 to 7 lines wide; flowers 1 to 5, dark red, funnelform, horizontal on 

 long pedicels; segments barely dotted at base, I14 to li/> inches long, the upper 

 i.'j somewhat recurved ; stamens less than 1 inch long, exceeding the style ; capsule 

 subglobose to elli]itic-oblong, 9 to 10 lines long. 



Low meadows or bogs near the coast from Marin Co. northward to Ten Mile 

 River, ileudoeino Co. 



Locs. — Havens Neck, Brandt; Pt. Arena, Bioletti; Noyo River, Davy 6569. 



Refs. — LiLiUM MARITIMUM Kell. Proc. Cal. Acad. 6:140 (1876), type loe. California coast 

 near San Franci.sco; Elwes, Monog. Lil. pi. 12, fig. 1 (1880); Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 110 

 (1901). 



