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4. L. bolanderi Wats. Stem i/ 2 to 2y 2 feet high, 1 to 7-flowered ; bulb ovate, 

 of numerous lanceolate scales 1 to l 1 /^ inches long; leaves in 3 (or rarely 4) 

 whorls with 1 to 3 smaller alternate leaves below, oblanceolate to obovate, acute 

 to obtusish, 1 to 2!/2 inches long, 14 to li/g inches wide, glaucous beneath ; flowers 

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

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



Dry chaparral hillsides, inside the Redwood belt, Mendocino Co. to Siskiyou 

 Co. Southern Oregon. July. 



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

 Mts., Blasdale 1073. 



Eefs. LILIUM BOLANDERI Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 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 Eoezl & 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, 2 l / 2 to 4 inches long, orange-red, spotted with small maroon or 

 purple spots, the segments strongly recurving. 



Open 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., aec. 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. Cuyamaca Mts. Var. ocellatum Kell. Bulb more globular, its 

 scales several-jointed; leaves brighter green; purple spots of flower 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, Eoezl, who discovered it on the centenary of the birth 

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

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

 Grass Valley and Downieville, " Bigelow. Var. BLOOMERIANUM Jepson. L. bloomerianum Kell. 

 Proc. Cal. Acad. 4:160 (1872), type loc. not known. Var. OCELLATUM Kell. Proe. 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 l 1 /^ to 2 inches long, strongly recurved, bright reddish 

 orange, thickly spotted with purple. 



Humboldt Co. North to Oregon and British Columbia. 



Loc. N. Humboldt Co., coast district, ace. Tracy. 



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

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

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



1. L. maritimum 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, 1^4 to l 1 /^ inches long, the upper 

 1.3 somewhat recurved ; stamens less than 1 inch long, exceeding the style ; capsule 

 subglobose to elliptic-oblong, 9 to 10 lines long. 



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

 River, Mendocino Co. 



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



Refs. LILIUM MARITIMUM Kell. Proc. Cal. Acad. 6:140 (1876), type loc. California coast 

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

 (1901). 



