LILIACEAE. 
1. Androstephium coertleum (Scheele) 
Greene. Androstephium. (Fig. 1002. ) 
Milla coerulea Scheele, Linnaea, 25: 260. 1852. 
Androstephium violaceum Torr. Bot. Mex, Bound. Surv. 
219. 1859. é 
Androstephium coeruleum Greene, Pittonia, 2: 57. 1890. 
Corm subglobose, less than 1’ in diameter. Scape 
2/-8’ tall, simple; leaves 1//-2/’ wide, half terete, 
equalling the scape, or sometimes longer; bracts of the 
umbel 2-4, scarious, lanceolate, acuminate, persistent, . 
shorter than the pedicels; umbel 2-7-flowered; pedi- 
cels rather stout, %’-114’ long; perianth 10’/-14// 
long, the lobes about as long as the tube; filament- 
tube about 5’ long, its lobes exceeding the anthers; 
style about as long as the filament-tube; capsule 4//— 
6’’ high; seeds nearly 3’ long, very thin, narrowly 
winged. 
Prairies, Kansas to Texas. March-April. 
6) LILIUM Lisp el soz.) 753: 
Tall bulbous herbs, with simple leafy stems, and large erect or drooping showy 
flowers. Perianth funnelform or campanulate, diciduous, of 6 separate spreading or re- 
curved segments, each with a nectar-bearing groove at its base within. Stamens 6, mostly 
shorter than the perianth, hypogynous, slightly attached to the segments; filaments filiform 
or subulate; anthers linear, versatile, their sacs longitudinally dehiscent. Ovary 3-celled; 
ovules numerous; style long, somewhat club-shaped above; stigma 3-lobed. Capsule oblong 
or obovoid, loculicidally dehiscent. Sceds numerous, flat, horizontal, packed in 2 rows in 
each cavity. [Latin, from the Greek name of the Lily, said to be from the Celtic /7, white. ] 
About 45 species, natives of the north temperate zone. Besides the following, some 8 others 
occur in western North America. 
Flower or flowers erect; perianth-segments narrowed into long claws. 
Perianth-segments merely acute. 
Leaves lanceolate, nearly all verticillate. 
Leaves narrowly linear, nearly all alternate. 
Perianth-segments long-acuminate; leaves all alternate, appressed. 
Flowers drooping or spreading; perianth-segments not clawed. 
Leaves or most of them verticillate, their axils not bulbiferous; native species. 
Leaves finely roughened on the veins beneath. 
. L. Philadelphicum. 
L. umbellatum. 
. L. Catesbaet. 
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Perianth-segments recurved or spreading. 4. L. Canadense. 
Perianth-segments not recurved; mountain species. 5. L. Grayit. 
Leaves perfectly smooth; perianth-segments recurved. 
Leaves lanceolate; stem 3°-10° tall; flowers 1-40. 6. L. superbum. 
Leaves oblanceolate; stem 2°-3° tall; flowers 1-3. 7. L. Carolinianum. 
Leaves all alternate, crowded, the upper axils bulb-bearing; escaped from gardens. 
8. L. tigrinum. 
1. Lilium Philadélphicum [. Red 
Lily. Wood Lily. Philadelphia 
Lily. (Fig. 1003.) 
Lilium Philadelphicum I,. Sp. Pl. Ed. 2, 435. 1762. 
Bulb 1/ in diameter or less, composed of nar- 
row jointed fleshy scales. Stem 1°-3° tall, with 
a few distant scales below, leafy above; leaves 
lanceolate, acute at both ends or the lower some- 
times obtuse, 1/-4/ long, 3//-7’’ wide, all verti- 
cillate in 3’s-8’s, or a few of them alternate, thin, 
the margins finely roughened; flowers I-5, erect, 
2'4/-4’ high; perianth reddish orange, its seg- 
ments spatulate, somewhat spreading, acute or 
obtusish, the blade 14/-1/ wide, rather gradually 
narrowed into the claw, purple spotted below; 
capsule obovoid-oval, 114 ’—2’ high; seeds 3/’-4/’ 
long, narrowly winged. 
In dry woods and thickets, Maine to Ontario, 
south to North Carolina and West Virginia. As- 
cends to 4ooo ft. in Virginia. June-July. 
