﻿352 Farwell: Notes on Michigan Liliace.e 



Differs from the typical form of the species in its large long- 

 acuminate, rose-colored bulblets, in the narrower perianth-seg- 

 ments and longer pedicels. 



^ Allium canadense robustum var. nov. 

 Bulb spherical or nearly so, 2.5 cm. in diameter or less, the 

 outer coats fibrous-reticulated, deep-seated, 15-18 cm. below the 

 surface; scapes, often two, 3-4.5 dm. in height, 6 mm. or less 

 in diameter, and, with the two to six leaves near the base, glaucous; 

 leaves rather fleshy, 6 mm. wide, channelled above, convex below, 

 tw^o thirds to three fourths the length of the scape; scape bearing 

 one to three sessile, contiguous umbels, mostly of bulblets, at its 

 apex with one or more rays, 12.5 cm. or less in length, each bearing 

 an umbellet of from one to three bulblets; bulblets often foliaceous, 

 from spherical or nearly so to obovoid, tipped with a minute 

 curved point, the larger about 12 mm. in longest diameter, very 

 numerous, often more than thirty, yellowish white; involucre one 

 to four ovate, acuminate scarious bracts, the acumination often 

 prolonged to a length of 7.5 cm.; flowers, when present, few, on 

 pedicels 19-38 mm. long, white or pale rose, 7 mm. high, 10 

 across when open, segments obtuse, the outer ovate, the inner 



In rather moist meadow lands. Michigan: near Rochester, 

 June 9, 1912, Farwell 2629; June 13, 1912, Farwell 27 2Q; Jui 

 1914, Farwell 3666 . 



Differs from the typical form of the species in its more r 

 habit, compound umbel with differently shaped bulblets, obtuse 

 petals and general glaucousness. Listed as Allium ruhrum Oster- 

 haut? in Rpt. Michigan Acad. Sci. 15: 169. Nov. 1913. 



NEW SPECIES OF LILIUM 



I have long considered that the wild red lily of the middle west 

 is specifically distinct from the yellow-flowered Liliiim canadense L. 

 of the Atlantic seaboard. 



Our plant is much taller and coarser; the flowers generally are 

 strongly revolute and red instead of yellow; if the two plants 

 were specifically the same, it would be reasonable to expect to see 

 a yellow-flowered individual at times in the middle west but such 

 has never come under my observation during the twenty-five years 

 I have been obser\^ing these plants. I had become so thoroughly 



