* 

 Muilla. LILIACE^E. 151 



4. Scape much flattened and 2-edged, short, from an ovate coated bulb : leaves 

 2, thick, broadly linear, flat and falcate. 



* Bracts 2 : stamens included : ovary mostly crested. 



19. A. falcifolium, Hook. & Arn. Bulb-coats not reticulated: scape 2 or 3 

 inches high, 1 or 2 lines broad : leaves 3 or 4 Hues broad : flowers rose-colored, the 

 lanceolate segments attenuate and spreading above, minutely glandular-serrate, 4 to 6 

 lines long, nearly twice longer than the stamens and style : capsule acute with 3 

 short narrow central crests. Bot. Beechey, 400 ; Watson, 1. c. 488, t. 36, fig. 7, 8 

 (flower). 



In the Coast Ranges, from Sonoma to Humboldt Counties (Douglas, Bolander) and southwestern 

 Oregon (Rattan) ; Siskiyou County, Lemmon. 



20. A. Breweri, Watson. Bulbs large, 6 to 9 lines in diameter, the coats with- 

 out reticulation : scape an inch or two above ground, a line or two broad : leaves 2 

 to 5 lines broad : bracts acute : flowers deep rose-color, the lanceolate acute segments 

 nearly erect, 5 or 6 lines long, a third longer than the stamens : ovary and capsule 

 with a thick slightly lobed crest upon each cell. Proc. Amer. Acad. xiv. 233. 



Summit of Mount Diablo, in dry sunny places (Brewer, n. 1060) ; May. 



21. A. anceps, Kell. Bulb-coats with minute transversely oblong reticulation: 

 scape 2 or 3 inches high and 2 lines wide : bracts acute : pedicels lax, 6 to 8 lines 

 long : flowers nearly white with purplish midveins, the very narrowly lanceolate 

 acuminate lax* segments scarcely gibbous at base, 3 or 4 lines long, little exceeding 

 the stamens : crests 6, broad, obtuse. Proc. Calif. Acad. ii. 109, fig. 32 ; Watson, 

 Bot. King Exp. 352, t. 36, fig. 4-6 (capsule faulty). 



East base of the Sierra Nevada, from Carson City to Oregon. 



22. A. Lemmoni, Watson. Scape 6 inches high : leaves nearly straight : 

 flowers rather numerous, pale rose-color, on pedicels 6 to 8 lines long, the ovate- 

 lanceolate acuminate segments gibbous at base, 4 lines long, a little exceeding the 

 stamens : crests 6, broad, obscure. Proc. Amer. Acad. xiv. 234. 



In the Sierra Nevada, Sierra County, J. G. Lemmon. 



* * Bracts 3 to 5 : stamens somewhat exserted : ovary not crested. 



23. A. platycaule, Watson, 1. c. Bulb-coats without reticulation : scape stout, 

 3 to 5 inches high, 2 to 4 lines broad: leaves 6 to 12 lines broad: bracts acumi- 

 nate : pedicels very numerous, an inch long or less : flowers rose-color, the lanceolate 

 very narrowly long-acuminate segments 4 to 7 lines long. A. anceps, Baker, Bot. 

 Mag. t. 6227. 



In the high valleys of the Sierra Nevada, from near Cisco to Plumas County. 



2. MUILLA, Watson. 



Perianth subrotate, persistent, of 6 nearly equal slightly united oblong-lanceolate 

 segments, greenish or yellowish white with darker 2-nerved midveins. Stamens 

 near the base, with naked filiform filaments slightly thicker at base ; anthers ovate- 

 oblong, versatile. Ovary sessile, ovate-oblong; cells 8- 10-ovuled ; style clavate, 

 persistent and at length splitting. Capsule globose, scarcely lobed, loculicidally de- 

 hiscent. Seeds ascending, oblong, compressed and angled, with thin dull-black 

 testa. Scape from a fibrous-coated corrn, bearing an umbel subtended by several 

 small scarious bracts ; leaves very narrow, semi-terete ; pedicels not jointed ; not 

 alliaceous. A single species. Proc. Amer. Acad. xiv. 215. 



1. M. maritima, Watson, 1. c. 235. Corm small (less than a half-inch thick), 

 with thin fibro-membranous coats : leaves several, not sheathing at base, scabrous, 



