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New Mexico: Glorieta; West Fork of the Gila; near Fort Defiance; Nara Visa. 

 Low hills, in the Upper Sonoran Zone. 



2. DIPTEROSTEMON Rydb. 



Flowers few, umbellate on unequal rays, bluish purple, broadly funnelform, with a 



short tiibe; stamens 6, the inner wing-appendaged. 



1. Dipterostemon paucifiorus (Torr.) Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 39: 111. 1912. 

 Brodiaea capitata pautiflora Torr. U. S. & Mex. Bound. Bot. 218. 1859. 

 Dicheloslanma pauciflorum Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 13: 179. 1910. 

 Type locality: Near the Copper Mines, New Mexico. Type collected by Bigelow. 

 Range: Southwestern New Mexico and southern Arizona. 

 New Mexico: Mangas Springs; Santa Rita. Upper Sonoran Zone. 



3. MILL A Car. 



Flowers white, the perianth segments with greenish midribs, salverform with a 

 narrowly turbinate tube, usually 2 to each scape; stamens nearly sessile, the anthers 

 fixed by the base; capsules oblong-obovate, sessile. 



1. Milla biflora Cav. Icon. PI. 2: 76. pi. 196. 1794. 



Type locality: " Habitat in Imperio Mexicano. " 



Range: Southern New Mexico and Arizona and southward. 



New Mexico: Animas Valley (Mearns 2513). Low hills. 



Both this and the preceding plant are well worthy of cultivation and would probably 

 thrive in southern New Mexico. 



24. LILIACEAE. Lily Family. 



Perennial, mainly caulescent herbs, with bulbs or conns; leaves alternate or whoi Led, 

 sometimes basal or apparently basal; flowers solitary or in terminal racemes, corymbs, 

 or panicles; perianth conspicuous and showy; sepals and petals similar, sometimes 

 partly united; gyncecium of 3 united carpels; ovary superior, 3-celled; styles united; 

 fruit a loculicidal capsule, globular or elongated. 



key to the gknera. 



Perianth segments united into along tube; flowers white. . 1. Leucockinum (p, I 

 Perianth segments distinct <>r nearly so; flowers white or 

 colored. 



Bulbs tunicated; flowerswhite 4. Lloydia (p. 144). 



Bull's scalj ; flowers no1 w hite. 



Flowers large, 6 or 7 cm. long; perianth 



clawed 2. I.nn m (p 14 



Flowers small, 2 cm. long <>r less; perianth seg- 

 ments nut clawed :'.. I''ui in i \iii \ (p II! 



1. LETJCOCRINUM Null. Winn: MOUNTAIN nn 



Plants acaulescent, with numerous Leaves from a ahorl tstock and a i Luster of 



fleshy roots; flowers few to many Erom the crown, \\ bite, 3 to 5 cm. Long. 



1. Leucocrinum montanum Null.; A. Gray, Ann. Lye. N. Y. 4: Mi) L84 

 Type locality: 'In planitiebus altis fluminis Platte." 

 I' • ■ . i • { Oregon and South Dakota i" Nevada and northern N. m klexii o. 

 New Mexico: Dulce; Raton. Open slopes. 



