LILY FAMILY 



12. F. atropurpurea Nutt. Stem y 2 to iy 2 feet high from a thick-scaled 

 bulb; leaves 7 to 14, on the upper half of the stem, alternate or more or less 

 whorled, narrowly linear, sessile, 2 to 414 inches long; flowers open-campanulate, 

 1 to 4 (rarely 5 or 6) on recurved pedicels; segments purplish-brown mottled 

 with yellowish-green, narrowly rhombic or oblong and tapering to base and apex, 

 y 2 to % inch long ; style cleft % its length ; capsule acutely angled. 



High North Coast Ranges, Sierra Nevada and San Bernardino Mts., 6000 to 

 10,500 feet ; northerly to Oregon and Montana. 



Locs. Salmon Summit, Jepson 2077; Dorleska, Trinity Co., Hall 8574; Marble Mt., Jepson 

 2831; Humbug Mt., Sutler 1261; Modoc Co., M. S. Baker; Mt. Lassen, Hall # Eabcock 4301; 

 Mt. Lyell, Hall $ Babcock 3562; Marble Fork, Kaweah River, Hopping; San Bernardino 

 Mts., ace. Parish (PI. World, 20:209). A dwarf form is the var. falcata Jepson n. var. Three 

 inches high; leaves mostly basal, broadly linear, falcate; flowers 2 or 3. (Unc. 3 alta; folia 

 plerumque basalia, late linearia, falcata; flores 2 vel 3.) S*an Carlos Range (San Benito Peak, 

 Jepson 2715, type). 



Refs. FRITILLARIA ATROPURPUREA Nutt. Journ. Acad. Phila. 7:54 (1834), type loc. Flat- 

 head River, n. Rocky Mts., Nuttall. Var. FALCATA Jepson. 



13. F. pinetorum Davidson. Stem stout or even somewhat fistulous, 5 to 

 14 inches high ; bulb with numerous rice-grain bulblets ; leaves 12 to 20, approxi- 

 mate in somewhat indefinite whorls, linear, noticeably narrow in contrast to the 

 stoutness of the stem ; flowers 3 to 8, on upright pedicels slightly flexuous at first 

 but becoming stout an stiff ; segments dark greenish purple and yellow, mottled, 

 broadly ovate-acuminate, obtuse at very apex, about */> inch long; gland indefi- 

 nite ; filaments narrowly subulate ; style 3-cleft half its length or more ; capsule 

 acutely angled with short horn-like processes at the base and summit of each valve. 



Pine forests, 6000' to 9000 feet : White Mts. and southern Sierra Nevada 

 southerly to the San Gabriel and San Bernardino mts. 



Locs. Campito Mt., Jepson 7292; Casa Diablo, Owens Valley, Almeda NordyTce; Long 

 Mdw., North Fork Kings River, Hall # Chandler 442% ; Kern Peak, Mary Haskell; Mt. Pinos, 

 Hall 6517; Swartout Canon, Mt. San Antonio, Hall 1507. 



Ref. FRITILLARIA PINETORUM Davidson, Muhl. 4:67 (1908), type loe. Mt. Cummings, Kern 

 Co., Hasse $ Davidson 1739. 



20. LILIUM L. LILY 



Stems simple, tall and leafy, from a scaly bulb or scaly rootstock. Leaves 

 narrow, sessile. Flowers large and showy, solitary or 2 to many in a terminal 

 raceme. Perianth most commonly funnelform; its segments 6, yellow, red or 

 white, often dotted or spotted with brown, distinct, equal, spreading or recurved, 

 with a nectar-bearing groove toward the base. Stamens 6, hypogynous, included ; 

 anthers versatile. Style one, long, deciduous; stigma 3-lobed. Capsule loculici- 

 dal; seeds numerous, flat, horizontal, in 2 rows in each cell. Species about 45, 

 north temperate zone. (Greek lilion, the classical name.) 



Lilies inhabiting dry slopes do not have jointed scales, while jointed scales characterize the 

 wet land species. Lilies in cold or shaded places do not perfect as much seed as in opener 

 spots but the joints of the bulb-scales are wonderfully adapted to propagation. If a jointed 

 bulb is disturbed it replants itself many-fold (Carl Purdy). 



Bibliog. Elwes, H. J., Monog. of the Genus Lilium (1880). Purdy, C., Pacific Coast Lilies 

 (Gard. & For. 10:43, 144, 326, 1897) ; New West American Lilies (Erythea, 5:103-105, 

 1897); Lilies of the Western U. S. and British Columbia (Jour. Roy. Hort. Soe. 26:351-362, 

 figs. 183-186, 1904). Hansen, Geo., Lilies of the Sierra Nevada (Erythea 7:21-23, 1899). 

 Waugh, F. A., Conspectus of the Genus Lilium (Bot. Gaz. 27:235-254, 340-360, figs. 1-14, 

 1899). 



A. Plants of dry places with true bulbs (not rhizomatous) ; bulb-scales not jointed. 

 Flowers white (aging purplish or rose-purple) or pink. 



Perianth pure white or minutely purple-dotted, aging purplish, 3 to 4 inches long, its 

 segments slightly recurved at tip 1. L. washlngtonianum. 



Perianth nearly white, brown-dotted, aging rose-purple, 1% to 2 inches long, its segments 

 recurving from the middle 2. L. rubescens. 



Perianth pink, its segments revolute to the stem 3. L. Tcelloggii. 



