LILY FAMILY 315 



Mature leaves serrulate; style present 1. N. parryi. 



Mature leaves not serrulate; style none 2. N. bigel&vii. 



1. N. parryi Wats. (Fig. 58.) Stem 3 to 6 feet high; leaves rather thick, 

 concave, keeled, serrulate, % to IVt inches wide, 2 to 3% feet long; bracts irreg- 

 ularly and remotely salient-laciniate ; flowers 3 lines long; capsule orbicular in 

 outline, notched at both ends, 6 to 7 lines broad. 



Arid mountain slopes, 4000 to 6000 feet : eastern San Bernardino Mts., south 

 through the San Jacinto Mts. to San Diego Co. Arizona; Lower California. 

 May-June. 



Locs. Rattlesnake Canon, e. San Bernardino Mts., Parish 3145; Tahquitz Valley, Hall 

 2432; Santa Rosa Mt., Jepson 1433; Corona, acc.^ Parish; Pala, Orcutt; San Felipe, T. 

 Brandegee. 



Ref. NOLINA PAREYI "Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 14:247 (1879), type loc. desert east of San 

 Bernardino, Parry. 



2. N. bigelovii Wats. Leaves scarcely concave or keeled, the margin shred- 

 ding away in brown fibres ; margins of bracts deeply and rather closely fringed ; 

 perianth 1 to l 1 /^ lines long. 



Mountains, southern borders of the Colorado Desert ; south into Lower Cali- 

 fornia, east into Arizona. 



Loc. Mountain Sprs., San Diego Co., Parish 9044, only known station in California. 



Refs. NOLINA BIGELOVII Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 14:247 (1879). Dasylirion bigelovii Torr. 

 Pac. R. Rep. 4:151 (1857), type loc. Williams River, Ariz., Bigelow. 



23. ASPARAGUS L. 



Stem from a rootstock, very much branched and with filiform branchlets 

 clustered in the axils of the scaly leaves. Flowers small, solitary or in umbels 

 or racemes. Perianth-segments alike, distinct or slightly united, the stamens 

 inserted on their bases. Ovary 3-celled, with 2 ovules in each cell ; style short, 

 stigmas 3, recurved. Fruit a globose berry. Species 100, Old World. (Ancient 

 Greek name.) 



1. A. officinalis L. ASPARAGUS. Stems tall and branching, 3 to 5 feet high, 

 when young stout, succulent and edible ; clustered branchlets 4 to 8 lines long ; 

 flowers green, pendulous on jointed peduncles; perianth campanulate, 3 lines 

 long, with included stamens; berry red, 4 lines in diameter. 



Garden plant escaped to low lands about Alameda, San Bernardino and Los 

 Angeles. 



Ref. ASPARAGUS OFFICINALIS L. Sp. PI. 1:313 (1753), type European. 



24. STREPTOPUS Michx. TWISTED-STALK 



Stems branching from a creeping rootstock. Leaves alternate, ovate, sessile 

 or clasping, taper-pointed, membranous. Flowers greenish- white, axillary, soli- 

 tary or in pairs, drooping on slender filiform peduncles which are bent or con- 

 torted at the middle. Perianth campanulate, the lanceolate segments distinct, 

 recurved-spreading, deciduous. Stamens 6 ; filaments short, flattened. Style 1 ; 

 stigma slightly 3-lobed. Fruit a red ovoid or oval berry. Five species, North 

 America, Europe and Asia. (Greek streptos, twisted, and pous, foot or stalk.) 



1. S. amplexifolius DC. LIVER-BERRY. Stem V/ to 3 feet high ; leaves ovate, 

 clasping, glaucous beneath, 2 l / 2 to 4% inches long; peduncles with a gland at 

 the knee ; flowers greenish- white, 5 to 6 lines long. 



Margin of cold streamlets in the woods: Mendocino Co. to western Siskiyou 

 Co., thence east and southeast to Modoc and Plumas cos., 1000 to 5500 feet. 

 North to Alaska and east to the Atlantic. Europe, Asia. 



Locs. Dinsmore Ranch, Van Duzen River, Tracy 3956; Trinity Summit, Jepson 2058a; 

 Marble Valley, w. Siskiyou Co., Butler 97; Sisson, Jepson; Forestdale, M. S. Baker; Mill 

 Creek, Plumas Co., E. M. Austin. 



