648 LILIACE^E CHI.OROGALUM 



LIl.lfM 



C. pomeridianum Kunth 1. c. Bulb oblong-ovoid, 2-4 inches in di" 

 ameter, densely covered with coarse brown fibres: stem and spreading 

 panicle 1-6 feet high: leaves H-1S inches long, 3-10 lines wide, carinate, 

 glanc -us, the margins strongly undulate; the cauline one or two much 

 shorter and attenuate: flowers numerous, scattered, in a much branched 

 open panicle: bracts lanceolate, 1-2 line? long, acuminate: pedicels slender, 

 6-10 lines long: segments of the perianth white \\ith purple veins, 8-10 

 lines long, linear, opening only in the afternoon and closing over the ovary 

 in the night: capsule 8 lilies high, the valves pinnatrly nerved: seeds 1K~2 

 lines long. On dry ridges, southern Oregon 10 Caiifofnia. 



8 LILIUM L. Sp. 3U2. 



Herbs with simple leafy stems from scaly bulbs, with flat sessile 

 whorled or scattered leaves and usually large flowers in foliaceous- 

 bracted racemes or subumbellate clusters. Pedicels not jointed. 

 Perianth funnelform, of 6 distinct equal deciduous segments with 

 a nectariferous groove toward the base. Stamens 6, hypogynous, 

 included : anthers linear to oblong, versatile, extrorse, longitu- 

 dinally dehiscent. Ovary sessile, many-ovuled. Style long, 

 clavate, deciduous: stigma 3-lobed. Capsule coriaceous, loculi- 

 cidally dehiscent, somewhat 6-angled. Seeds numerous, flat, 

 horizontal, in 2 rows in each cell, with brownish thin testa. 



* Flowers white to purplish or red : segments of the perianth with 

 long narrow claws, the tips spreading but not revolute. 



L. Washingtonianum Kellogg Proc. Calif, Acad. ii, 13. Bulb large, 

 somewhat rhizornatous and oblique, 2-12 inches long, the scales imbricated, 

 lanceolate, 2-3 inches long, not jointed: stem terete, 1-7 feet high, glab- 

 rous or somewhat scabrous: leaves in several whorls of 6-18 the upper 

 and lower usually scattered, oblam-eolate, acute or acutish,3-5 inches long, 

 8-15 lines wide, more or less undulate: flowers one to many, very fragrant, 

 white, becoming purplish with age, often finely dotted with purple, hori- 

 zontally decimate on stout nearly erect pedicels l-l inches long; segments 

 3-t inches long, 3-10 lines wide, the upper third spreading: stamens a 

 little shorter, with yellow anthers 5-6 lines long: capsule obovate-oblong, 

 truncate, obtusely angled or sometimes narrowly winged, 1-]K inches 

 long. Jn loose soil on dry open mountain ridges, Oregon to California. 



L. rubescens Watson Proc. Am. Acad. xiv, 256. Bulb smaller, but 

 little oblique, 1-3 inches in diameter, the thick lanceolate scales about an 

 inch long: stem stout, 1-7 feet high, smooth: leaves glabrous gluujous 

 beneath, undulite or flat, the lower scattered the upper in 3-7 whorls, ob- 

 lanceolat* 1 , acute or acutish, 1-t inches long, 6-12 line-* wide: fl >wers 

 usually severa', on ascending pedicels 1-3 inches long, pale Ulac. to white, 

 becoming ro.se purple, somewhat dotted with brown, segments l%-3 inche-s 

 long, the upper third spreading: stamens and style a third shorter: anthers 

 two to three lines long: ovary wing-angled, attenuate downward, half inch 

 long. On wooded hillsides, southern Oregon to California. 



L. Ifolanderi Watson 1. c. 377. Bulb small, ovoid, one to two inches 

 in diameter, the thick lanceolate Fcales 1-1% inch long: stem rather stout, 

 six inches to four feet high, on** to several-flowered : leave? verticillate in 

 one to four approximate whorls, lanceolate to oliovate, obtuse to acute, 

 often apiculate, glaucous beneath, one to two inches long: flowers ^HH to 

 several in a subumbellate cluster, somewhat nod-l ng on erect pedi els 1-4 

 inches long, segments lanceolate one to two inches long, three to six 

 lines wide, acute, dull purplish-red outride, bright red dotted with maroon 

 inside, the upper third spieading: stamens aiid style about two thiids as 



