* 

 Leucocrinum. LILIACEyE. 157 



1. B. coccinea, Watson. Corm 6 to 9 lines in diameter, with reticulated and 

 somewhat hbrous coats, and often with lateral bulblets : leaves a foot or two long or 

 more, 2 to 4 lines wide, carinate, glaucous : scape slender, erect, 1 to 3 feet high, 

 bearing an umbel of 6 to 15 flowers : pedicels 6 to 12 lines long or more, slender: 

 perianth 12 to 16 lines long ; the segments ovate, 2 or 3 lines long, greenish-yellow : 

 anthers equalling the limb ; staminodia a half shorter, yellow : capsule on a stipe 2 

 or 3 lines long, ovate-oblong, attenuate upward into the somewhat persistent style : 

 seeds 2 lines long. Proc. Am. Acad. xiv. 239. B. Ida-Maia, Wood, 1. c. Brodi<ea 

 coccinea, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 389 ; Baker, Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. 378 ; Hook. 

 f. Bot. Mag. t. 5857. 



In rich soil in the mountains from Humboldt to Shasta Counties ; flowering in May and June. 

 A showy species, very distinct in its coloring. 



7. ANDROSTEPHIUM, Torr. 



Perianth persistent, pale lilac or purplish, funnelform, 6-cleft, the cylindric tube 

 nearly equalling or shorter than the spreading narrowly oblong 1-nerved segments. 

 Stamens in one row on the throat, the filaments united to form a tubular corona 

 with erect bifid lobes alternate with the oblong versatile anthers. Ovary ovate, 

 sessile, with elongated persistent style. Capsule subglobose, triquetrous. Seeds 

 several in each cell, large, black. Scape from a somewhat fibrous-coated corm, 

 bearing a few-flowered umbel with inarticulate pedicels ; leaves narrowly linear, 

 channelled. Only two species. Bot. Mex. Bound. 218. 



1. A. breviflorum, Watson. Corm small: leaves scabrous, a line broad or 

 less : scape rather stout, 4 to 12 inches high, scabrous especially below: flowers 3 

 to 12, on pedicels \ to 1| inches long, light purple, about half an inch long, the tube 

 much shorter than the segments ; corona half the length of the limb or more, its 

 lobes equalling or shorter than the anthers (\\ lines long) : capsule broader than 

 long (4 or 5 lines), somewhat deeply 3-lobed : seeds 3 or 4 lines long, usually 6 in 

 each cell. Am. Naturalist, vii. 303. 



On gravelly hills near Fort Mohave, rare (Dr. J. G. Cooper, in fruit in February), and eastward 

 to S. Utah, Mrs. Thompson, Bishop, Parry. The second species (A. violaceum, Torr.) is found 

 from Texas to Western Kansas, and differs especially in its larger flowers on shorter pedicels, the 

 tube of the perianth comparatively longer and nearly equalling the limb, and the crown exceeding 

 the anthers ; scape usually very low. 



8. LEUCOCBINUM, Nutt. 



Perianth salver-form with a very slender elongated tube, white, persistent ; seg- 

 ments narrowly lanceolate, 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 filiform, equalling the stamens, tubu- 

 lar, the orifice somewhat expanded and slightly 3-lobed : ovules several in each cell. 

 Capsule triangular-obovate, subcoriaceous, loculicidally dehiscent. Seeds obovate, 

 strongly angled, with a dull black testa. Acaulescent, with a short deep-seated 

 rhizome and fleshy roots, narrowly linear leaves surrounded at base by scarious 

 bracts, and a central sessile umbel of showy fragrant flowers ; floral bracts sheathing 

 the pedicels. A single species. 



1. L. montanum, Xutt. Leaves 8 to 12 or more, flat and rather thick, 4 to 8 

 inches long and 1 to 3 lines broad, the narrow underground bases (1 to 3 inches 

 long) surrounded by broad scarious acutish bracts ; inner bracts very narrow : flowers 

 4 to 8, on short pedicels (6 to 18 lines long) from the summit of the rhizome : tube 



