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LILIACEAE 



8. L. occidentals Purdy. EUREKA LILY. Stem 2 feet high in open ground 

 or 4 to 6 feet high in thickets ; bulb like that of L. maritimum ; leaves whorled on 

 the middle of the stem, scattered below, lanceolate, acute ; flowers from a few to 

 15 on strongly divaricate pedicels 3 to 9 inches long, nodding at summit; seg- 

 ments 1*4 to 2 1 /2 inches long, recurved for % their length, varying from dark red 

 to reddish yellow, fading purplish, the lower part commonly orange with purple- 

 black spots ; anthers oblong, 2 lines long, dark red. 



Near the ocean, northern Humboldt Co. to southern Oregon. 

 Locs Humboldt Co., Tracy 4356 (Patrick's Point), 5078 (Humboldt Hill), 3705 (In- 

 dianola), 4376 (Korbel) ; Jones Creek, Del Norte Co., Jepson 2894. 



Eef. LILIUM OCCIDENTALE Purdy, Erythea 5:103 (1897), type loe. Humboldt Bay, Purdy. 



9. L. parvum Kell. SMALL TIGER LILY. Stem li/o to 7 feet high ; rootstock 

 thick and fleshy, not branching, the scales 3 or 4-jointed ; leaves lanceolate, 3 to 

 5 inches long, in whorls or quite scattered ; flowers 1 or 2 to very many, small 

 (1 to 1^4 inches long) on erect or ascending pedicels; perianth funnelform, only 

 the tips of the segments spreading, orange-yellow spotted with purple. 



Wet places along streams or edges of swamps, Sierra Nevada north to Mt. 

 Shasta, 6000 to 9000 feet. Southern Oregon. 



Locs. Truckee, Sonne; Blue Lakes, Amador Co., Hansen; Snowdon Ranch, Calaveras Co., 

 Jepson; Kennedy Mdws., upper Stanislaus River, Jepson 6544, 6545; Pleasant Valley, Tuol- 

 umne Co., Jepson 3395; Merced Big Trees, Jepson; Shaver Mills, Fresno Co., K. Brandegee. 



Refs. LILIUM PARVUM Kell. Proc. Gal: Acad. 2:179, fig. 52 (1863); Elwes, Monog. Lil. 

 pi. 30 (1880). L. canadense var. parvum Baker; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 6146 (1875). 



10. L. pardalinum Kell. TIGER LILY. Stem 3 to 5 or even 7 feet high ; 

 rootstock thick and fleshy, closely covered with 2-jointed closely overlapping 

 scales, branching and eventually forming large mat-like clusters ; leaves in whorls 

 or alternate, linear-lanceolate ; flowers 1 to many, racemose or the lower in whorls, 

 on long spreading pedicels ; segments 2 to 3 inches long, 6 to 9 lines wide, strongly 

 revolute, bright orange-red with a lighter orange center and large purple spots 

 on the lower half; capsule narrowly oblong, acutely angled, 1^ inches long. 



Stream banks and moist hillside meadows: Coast Ranges, at low altitudes 

 near the sea or in the high mountains ; Sierra Nevada, 3000 to 4000 feet. Also 

 called Leopard Lily. Bulb-scales sometimes 3-jointed in some forms of it. June- 

 Aug. 



Locs. Shelley Creek, Del Norte Co., Jepson 2918; Quartz Valley, Butler 1454; Mt. Shasta, 

 Hall <$ BabcocTc 4047a ; Hupa, Manning 15 ; Comptche, Jepson 2233 ; Horse Mt., Lake Co., 

 Jepson; Fairfax, Marin Co., Edith A. Lee; Santa Cruz Mts., Jepson; Mt. Pinos, Hall 6648; 

 San Bernardino Valley, W. G. Wright; Alta Mdw., Sequoia Park, Hopping 93; Bear Valley, 

 Nevada Co., Jepson; Mt. Lassen, Hall Sf Barcode 4364. 



Refs. LILIUM PARDALINUM Kell. Proc. Cal. Acad. 2:12, pi. (1863), type from Alameda 

 Co., Kellogg; Elwes, Monog. Lil. pi.' 28 (1880); Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 109 (1901). L. 

 californicum Lindl., Elwes, I.e. pi. 29. 



L. ROEZLII Regel, Gartenflora, 19:321, t. 667 (1870), type probably from California, not 

 "Utah," Roezl. Is one of many forms of L. pardalinum; perianth clear yellow with dark 

 spots, and sometimes with clear red tips. Occurs in the Siskiyou Mts., ace. Purdy. L. WAitei 

 Purdy; Bailey, Stand. Cycl. Hort. 1878 (1916). Perianth clear rich yellow, unspotted, quite 

 fragrant. Said to have been found in Southern California, probably Lower California. 



11. L. parry! "Wats. LEMON LILY. Stem slender, glabrous, 2 to 5 feet high, 

 2 to 10-flowered; bulb like that of L. parvum, its scales numerous, thick, about 

 1 inch long; leaves usually scattered, sometimes the lower in a whorl, linear- 

 oblanceolate, 4 to 6 inches long, about 1 inch wide, mostly acuminate; flowers 

 clear lemon yellow, sparingly and minutely purple-black dotted, on stout short 

 pedicels ; perianth-segments 3 to 4 inches long, somewhat spreading above, or the 

 tips recurved ; stamens and style a little shorter ; anthers oblong, brownish, 3 

 lines long; capsule narrowly oblong, acutish, nearly 2 inches long, 6 lines wide. 



Moist situations, high mountains of Southern California. East to Arizona. 





