WOOTON AND STANDLEY FLORA OF NEW MEXICO. 143 



New Mexico: Glorieta; West Fork of the Gila; near Fort Defiance; Nara Visa. 

 Low hills, in the Upper Sonoran Zone. 



2. DIPTEROSTEMON Rydb. 



Flowers few, umbellate on unequal rays, bluish purple, broadly funnelform, with a 

 short tube; stamens 6, the inner wing-appendaged. 



1. Dipteiostemon pauciflorus (Torr.) Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 39: 111. 1912. 

 Brodiaea capitata paudflora Torr. U. S. & Mex. Bound. Bot. 218. 1859. 

 Dkhelostemma pauciJJorum Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 13: 179. 1910. 

 Type locality: Near the Copper Mines, New Mexico. Type collected by Bigelow. 

 Range: Southwestern New Mexico and southern Arizona. 

 New Mexico: Mangas Sji rings; Santa Rita. Upper Sonoran Zone. 



3. MILL A Cav. 



Flowers white, the perianth segments with gi-eenish midribs, salverform with a 

 narrowly turbinate tube, usually 2 to each scape; stamens nearly sessile, the anthers 

 fixed by the base; capsules oblong-obovate, sessile. 



1. Milla biflora Cav. Icon. PI. 2: 76. pi. 196. 1794. 



Type locality: " Habitat in Imperio Mexicano. " 



Range: Southern New Mexico and Arizona and southward. 



New Mexico: Animas Valley (J/ea?7is 2513). Low hills. 



Both this and the preceding plant are well worthy of cultivation and would probably 

 thrive in southern New Mexico. 



24. LILIACEAE. Lily Family. 



Perennial, mainly caulescent herbs, with bulbs or comis; leaves alternate or whorled, 

 sometimes basal or apparently basal; flowers solitary or in terminal racemes, corymbs, 

 or panicles; perianth conspicuous and showy; sepals and petals similar, sometimes 

 partly united; gynoecium of 3 united carpels; ovary superior, 3-celled; styles united; 

 fruit a loculicidal capsule, globular or elongated. 



key to the genera. 



Perianth segments united into' a long tube ; flowers white . . 1. Leucocrinum (p. 143). 

 Perianth segments distinct or nearly so; flowers white or 

 colored. 



Bulbs tunicated ; flowers white 4. Lloydia (p. 144). 



Bulbs scaiy; flowers not white. 



Flowers large, 6 or 7 cm. long; perianth segments 



clawed 2. Lilium (p. 144). 



Flowers small, 2 cm. long or less; perianth seg- 

 ments not clawed 3. Fritillaria (p. 144). 



1. LEUCOCRINUM Nutt. White mountain lily. 



Plants acaulescent, with numerous leaves from a sliort rootstock and a cluster of 

 fleshy roots; flowers few to many from the crown, white, 3 to 5 cm. long. 



1. Leucocrinum montanum Nutt.; A. Gray, Ann. Lye. N. Y. 4: 110. 1848. 

 Type locality: "In planitiebus altis fluminis Platte." 

 Range: Oregon and South Dakota to Nevada and northern New Mexico. 

 New Mexico: Dulce; Raton. Open slopes. 



