BREVOORTIA LILIACE^E 645 



LEUCOCK1XCM 



6-8 inches long, 2-3 lines wide, usually falcate: pedicels 10-20, >-2 inches 

 long: perianth llne or purplish to nearly white, 12-15 lines Jong, the tune 

 very narrow and longer than the segments: stamens inserted on the throat; 

 tl-e* nearly equal filaments dilated downward, the free portion 1-2 lines 

 long; anthers linear, 2 lines long: capsule ovoid, 4 lines long, shorter than 

 the stipe, beaked by the verv slender style: se< ds 2-3 in each cell, 1} lines 

 long. On dry ridges in the Coatt Mountains, southern Oregon to California. 



B. Henderson! Watson Pioc. Am. Acad. xxiii, 266. Scapes 6-18 

 indies high, smooth: leaves as long or longer than the scape. 2-6 lines 

 wide: umbel subcapitate, few- to many-flowered : pedicels slender, 1-2 

 inches long: perianth an inch long, yellow with blue mid veins, the fun- 

 nelform tube nearly as long as the lanceolate segments: stamen* inserted 

 at the base of the tube, the filaments adnate to it and winged below, the 

 free portion slender and half as long as the segments : anthers small, oblong, 

 attached near the base: ovary subglobose, on a stipe as long as the tube of 

 the perianth, beaked by the slender style. On dry ridges, southern Oregon. 



3 BREVOORTIA Wood Proc. Philad. Acad. 1867, 82. 



Sea pose herbs from coated oorms, with all radical leaves and 

 showy flowers on joinUd pedicels in subcapitate unbels. Peri- 

 anth persistent, broadly tubular, shoitly 6-saccate at the truncate 

 base, slightly constricted above, the short segments usually erect, 

 faintly one-nerved. Stjmens 3, inserted on the throat opposite 

 the inner seprmnts, alteinate with 3 veiy broad truncate (orona- 

 like stamincdia: filaments very short, naked: anthers attached 

 by the base, tmarginate at each end. Ovary stipiiate, with elon- 

 gated persistent style : cells 4-6-ovuled. Capsule triangular-ovate, 

 acuminate. Seeds angled, black. 



B. Ida-Maia Wood 1. c. Fcape slender, 1-3 feet high : leaves 1-2 feet 

 long or n ore. 2-4 lines wide carinatc. glaucous: umbel 6-15-flowered : pedi- 

 cels (i-12 lims long or moie: perianth 1-1 K inches long, dark red, the seg- 

 ments ovate, 2-H linen long, boidered with ieenifrh yellow : anthers oblong, 

 equalling the segments; stamimdia a half t-hoiter, yllow: capsule on a 

 stipe 2-3 lines long, ovate-oblong, attenuate upuard into the somewhat 

 persistent style : seeds 2 lines long. Along the coast and in the mountains, 

 southern Oregon to California. 



4 LEUCOCKINUM Nutt. Gray Lye. N. Y. 110. (1837.) 



Low acaulescent herbs with short rootstocks, narrow leaves 

 surrounded at base by scarious bracts, and a central sessile umbel 

 of white flowers, the pedicels and ovaries underground, sheathed 

 by the floral bracts. Perianth salverform, persistent, the seg- 

 ments several- nerved. Stamens 6: filuments filiform, inserted 

 below the throat : anthers linear, attached near the base, introrse. 

 Ovary sessile, ovate-oblong: style persistent, elongated and fili- 

 form-tubular, the orifice somewhat enlarged and slightly 3-lobed: 

 ovules several in each c 11. Capsule triangular-obovate subcoria- 

 ceous Joeuli< idallv dehiscent. Seeds oLovate, strongly angled, 

 with a dull black testa. 



L. moiitaniini Nutt. in herb. Gray 1. c. Leaves 8-15. flat and r:\ther 

 thick, 4-s inches long, 1-3 lines wide, the under^-und poition 1-3 inches 

 long, brond, surrounbed by t-carionp acuti^h bracts; inner bracts very 

 narrow: flov\ers 4-fc, on pedicels G-18 lines long Irom the summit of the 



