BREVOORTIA LILIACEZ 645 
LEUCOCRINUM 
6-8 inches long, 2-3 lines wide, usually falcate: pedicels 10-20, 14-2 inches 
long: perianth blue or purplish to nearly white, 12-15 lines long, the tube 
very narrow and longer than the segments: stamens inserted on the throat; 
the 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 very slender style: seeds 2-3 in each cell, 144 lines 
long. On dry ridges in the Coast Mountains, southern Oregon to California. 
B. Hendersoni Watson Proc. Am. Acad. xxiii, 266. Scapes 6-18 
inches 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: stamens 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. 
Scapose herbs from coated corms, with all radical leaves and 
showy flowers on jointed pedicels in subcapitate unbels. Peri- 
anth persistent, broadly tubular, shortly 6-saccate at the truncate 
base, slightly constricted ahove, the short segments usually erect, 
faintly one-nerved. Stamens 3, inserted on the throat opposite 
the inner segments, alternate with 3 very broad truncate corona- 
like staminodia: filaments very short, naked: anthers attached 
by the base, emarginate at each end. Ovary stipitate, with elon- 
gated persistent style : cells 4-6-ovuled. Capsule triangular-ovate, 
acuminate. Seeds angled, black. 
B. Ida-Maia Wood ]. c. Scape slender, 1-3 feet high: leaves 1-2 feet 
long or n.ore, 2-4 lines wide carinate, glaucous: umbel 6-15-flowered : pedi- 
cels 6-12 lines long or more: perianth 1-114 inches long, dark red, the seg- 
ments ovate, 2-3 lines long, bordered with greenish yellow: anthers oblong, 
equalling the segments; staminodia a half shorter, PAA alt capsule on a 
stipe 2-3 lines long, ovate-oblong, attenuate upward into the somewhat 
persistent style: seeds 2 lines long. Along the coast and in the mountains, 
southern Oregon to California. 
4 LEUCOCRINUM Nutt. Gray Lye. N. Y. 110. (1887.) 
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: filaments 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 cell, Capsule triangular-obovate subcoria- 
ceous loculicidallv dehiscent. Seeds obovate, strongly angled, 
with a dull black testa, 
L. montanum Nutt. in herb. Gray 1. c. Leaves 8-15, flat and rather 
thick, 4-8 inches long, 1-3 lines wide, the underground portion 1-3 inches 
long, broad, surrounbed by scarious acutish bracts; inner bracts very 
narrow: flowers 4-8, on pedicels 6-18 lines long from the summit of the 
