Lily Family 83 



Flowers umbellate. 



Perianth segments distinct or nearly so. 



Odor and taste alliaceous; ovules 1 or 2 in each cell. 



3. ALLIUM. 



Odor and taste not alliaceous; ovules several in each cell. 

 Flowers greenish-white. 4. MUILLA. 



Flowers yellow. 5. BLOOMERIA. 



Perianth segments united below into a tube. 

 Stamens 6. 



Perianth-tube more or less inflated; inner stamens appendaged. 



6. BRODIAEA. 

 Perianth-tube funnelform; stamens unappendaged. 



8. TRITELIA. 



Stamens 3; staminodia 3. 7. HOOKERA. 



Plants with short stout woody caudex and large panicle of showy flowers. 



12. HESPEROYUCCA. 

 ** Fruit a berry. 



Leaves scale-like; branchlets numerous, filiform. 13. ASPARAGUS. 



1. ZYGADENUS Michx. ZYGADENE. 



Stems simple, scale-like, from a tunicated bulb," gla- 

 brous and somewhat glaucous, with linear mostly basal 

 leaves and greenish-white flowers, in a raceme or panicle. 

 Perianth nearly rotate, segments ovate to oblong-lanceo- 

 late, with a green glandular spot at the narrowed base. 

 Stamens free from the segments and about equaling 

 them ; filaments subulate. Styles distinct persistent. 

 Capsule deeply 3-lobed. Seeds brownish, angled. 



1. Z. Frexnontii Torr. Bulb oblong, 2-5 cm. long, with dark 

 coats ; stems 4-8 dm. high ; basal leaves 2-4 dm. long, 1.5-2.5 cm. 

 broad at the base, somewhat falcate-curving; stem leaves few, 

 shorter, sheathing at the base; flowers few to many in a raceme 

 or panicle; lower pedicels 2.5-4 cm. long; segments 8-14 mm. 

 long, the outer not clawed, the inner with a broad claw ; gland 

 greenish-yellow, toothed on its upper margin ; stamens about as 

 long as the segments; capsule oblong, about 2 cm. long. 



Occasional on the northern slope of the Santa Monica Mountains and 

 Verdugo Hills. April. 



2. CHIiOBOGALUM Kunth. SOAP-PLANT. 



Stems from a fibrous-coated bulb, tall almost leafless 

 paniculately branched above, the branches loosely race- 



