652 LILIACE A ERYTHRONIUM 
Near the coast, Vancouver Island to Oregon. E. Johnsoni Bolander Eryth. 
iii, 127, appears to be a pink-flowered form of this species. 
E. giganteum Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1786. Scape 6-18 inches high, 1-6- 
flowered: leaves broadly lanceolate, or in. fant developed specimens 
narrower, green mottled with brown and white, 4-6 inches long, mostly 
acute and shortly apiculate, rather abruptly narrowed below to a short and 
broadly margined petiole: outer segments of the perianth lanceolate, acu- 
minate, 1144-2 inches long, 4-6'lines wide; inner ones a little wider and 
more acuminate, all cream-color marked with yellow and orange near the 
base, strongly revolute; the inner ones auricled and 4-toothed at base: 
style clavate, about as long as the stamens, the stigmas distinct and at 
length strongly revolute. On stony ridges, western Washington to Calif. 
E. montanum Watson Proc. Am. Acad. xxvi, 130. Scape slender, 
6-18 inches high, 1-3-flowered: leaves broadly !anceolate to almost ovate, 
more or less abruptly contracted at base into a winged petiole, the blade 
2-4 inches long, pale green, not mottled: segments of the perianth pure ~ 
white with orange base, often turning pinkish in age, 1-134 inches long, 
broadly lanceolate, slenderly acuminate, the inner ones with small teet. 
at base: style clavate, much Jonger than the stamens; the stigmas distinct 
and at length spreading. On grassy slopes in the highest parts of the 
Cascade Mountains in Oregon and Washington. 
E. citrinum Watson Proc. Am. Acad. xxii, 480. Corm oblong, 1-2 
inches long, 4-6 lines in diameter; scape rather stout, 6-10 inches high, 
1-9-flowered, the flowers approximate and all opening at near the same 
time: leaves very broadly lanceolate, 4-6 lines long, obtuse and very shorty 
apiculate, attenuate at base to a very short petiole, the margins more or 
less undulate, green markeed with dark brown and white: segments of the 
perianth broadly lanceolate, obtuse, 12-15 lines long, bright lemon-color 
with orange base, the tips drying pinkish, strongly revolute, the teeth at 
the base of the inner ones thin: filaments not dilated downward: style 
rather thick shorter than or barely equalling the stamens: the stigmas 
coalescent by the edges: capsule, an inch long, very obtuse. On dry ridges 
in pine woods, near Deer Creek southern Oregon. 
E. Hendersoni Watson |. c. 479. Scape slender, 6-12 inches high, 
1-3-flowered : leaves lanceolate to oblong, obtuse and very shortly apiculate, 
narrowed below to a short petiole, the blade 3-6 inches long, green mottled 
with white and brown: segments of the perianth lanceolate, obtuse, 12-18 
lines long, purple with very dark base bordered above with yellow; the 
inner ones auricled above the very short claw, the auricles fleshy and sub- 
saccate, the 2 scales subglobose-inflated: filaments purple, very slender 
and attenuate upward, thrice longer than the brownish anthers: style 
narrowly clavate, shorter than or about equalling the stamens, the trian- 
gular cupulate stigma very shortly 3-lobed. Common in the Rogue river 
valley, southern Oregon. 
E. HowelliigWatson 1. c. 480, Scape rather slender, 6-18 inches high, 
1-3-flowered: leaves oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate, 3-6 inches long, an 
inch or less wide usually acute and shortly apiculate, green mottled with 
white and brown: segments of the perianth lanceolate, 18 lines long, straw- 
color to white;with orange base, often drying pinkish: the inner narrowed 
downward, without auricles or scales: stamens white, the filaments very 
siender: style slightly clavate, shorter than the stamens; the cupulate 
stigma faintly 3-lobed. In dry open woods near Waldo southern Oregon. 
12 CALOCHORTUS Pursh Fi. 240. 
Perennial herbs from coated corms, simple or branched leafy 
stems, linear leaves, the radical in our species solitary, and large 
