648 LILIACEZ CHLOROGALUM 
LILIUM 
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 6-18 inches long, 3-10 lines wide, carinate, 
glaucous, 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 lines long, acuminate: pedicels slender, 
6-10 lines long: segments of the perianth white with purple veins, 8-10 
lines long, linear, opening only in the afternoon and closing over the ovary 
in the night: capsule 3 lines high, the valves pinnately nerved: seeds 114-2 
lines long. On dry ridges, southern Oregon to California. 
8 LILIUM L. Sp. 302. 
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 coriaceons, 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 rhizomatous and oblique, 2-12 inches lony, 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, oblanceolate, 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 declinate on stout nearly erect pedicels 1-4 inches long; segments 
3-4 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, 1-114 inches 
long. In loose soil on dry open mountain ridges, Oregon to California. 
L. rubescens Watson Prov. 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, glaucous 
beneath, undulate or flat, the lower scattered the upper in 3-7 whorls, ob- 
lanceolate, acute or acutish, 1-4 inches long, 6-12 lines wide: flowers 
usually several, on ascending pedicels 1-3 inches long, pale lilac to white, 
becoming rose-purple, somewhat dotted with brown, segments | 24-3 inches 
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. Bolanderi Watson 1. c. 377. Bulb small, ovoid, one to two inches 
in diameter, the thick lanceolate scales 1-124 inch long: stem rather stout, 
six inches to four feet high, one- to several-flowered: leaves verticillate in 
one to four approximate whorls, lanceolate to obovate, obtuse to acute, 
often apiculate, glaucous beneath, one to two inches long: flowers one to 
several in a subumbellate cluster, somewhat nodding on erect pedicels 1-4 
inches long, segments lanceolate. one to two inches long, three to six 
lines wide, acute, dull purplish-red outside, bright red dotted with maroon 
inside, the upper third spreading: stamens and style about two thirds as 
