I* 

 Lilium. LILIACE.E. 165 



On dry rocky hills from Monterey to San Diego and eastward into Arizona. Y. graminifolia, 

 Wood, 1. c. , from the mountains east of Los Angeles, appears to be a form or variety with longer 

 and narrower leaves (20 inches by 3 lines), laxer and more deeply channelled, revolute toward 

 the apex and terminated by a more slender spine : pod IS lines long, transversely rugose. 



18. LILIUM, Linn. LILY. 



Perianth deciduous, funnelform, of 6 distinct equal oblanceolate spreading or re- 

 curved segments, with a nectariferous groove toward the base, net-veined, white, 

 yellow, or red, often spotted with brown. Stamens 6, hypogynous, included ; fila- 

 ments elongated; anthers linear to oblong, versatile, extrorse, dehiscent laterally. 

 Ovary sessile, many-ovuled ; style long, clavate, deciduous ; stigma 3-lobed. Cap- 

 sule coriaceous, loculicidal, erect, somewhat 6-angled. Seeds numerous, flat, hori- 

 zontal, in 2 rows in each cell, with brownish thin testa. Stems leafy, simple, from 

 scaly bulbs ; leaves narrow, sessile, whorled or scattered, net-veined ; flowers large 

 and showy, solitary or racemose or subumbellate ; pedicels not jointed, with folia- 

 ceous bracts. Baker, Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 225 ; Watson, Proc. Amer. Acad. 

 xiv. 255. 



A genus of nearly 50 species, of the northern temperate zone, extensively cultivated for their 

 showy and often fragrant flowers. More than half are natives of Eastern Asia, and 4 or 5 species 

 are found in the Atlantic States. The Californian species have lately been introduced into 

 European gardens, and some of them are very handsome. 



* Flowers spotless or only finely dotted, white or purplish or pale yellow, the 

 spreading segments with long narrow claws. 



H Flowers horizontal, large. 



1. L. Washingtonianum, Kell. Bulbs large, somewhat rhizomatous and 

 oblique (becoming 6 or 8 inches long), the thin imbricated lanceolate scales 2 or 3 

 inches long and not jointed : stems terete, 2 to 5 feet high, glabrous or slightly 

 scabrous : leaves in several whorls of 6 to 1 2 (the upper and lower usually scattered), 

 oblanceolate, acute or acutish, 2 to 5 inches long and 8 to 12 lines wide, more or 

 less undulate : flowers very fragrant, pure white becoming purplish, or often sparingly 

 and finely dotted, 2 to 20 or more in a thyrsoid raceme, horizontally declinate on 

 stout nearly erect pedicels 1 to 4 inches long ; segments 3 or 4 inches long and 4 to 

 8 lines wide, the upper third spreading : stamens a little shorter, with yellow anthers 

 5 or 6 lines long : ovary 7 to 10 lines long : capsule obovate-oblong, truncate, ob- 

 tusely 6-angled or sometimes narrowly winged, 15 lines long or more. Proc. Calif. 

 Acad. ii. 13; also independently by Wood, Proc. Philad. Acad. 1868, 166; Eegel, 

 Gartenfl. t. 710 ; Fl. Serres, t. 1795. 



In the Cuyumaca Mountains, San Diego County (Palmer), and on the western slope of the 

 Sierra Nevada at an altitude of 3,000 to 6,000 feet, northward to the Columbia River. A beauti- 

 ful species, growing in loose soil on ridges or lightly shaded hillsides. 



2. L. Parryi, Watson. Bulb small, somewhat rhizomatous, of numerous thick 

 jointed scales about an inch long : stem slender, glabrous, 2 to 5 feet high, 2-10- 

 flowered : leaves usually scattered, sometimes the lower in a whorl, linear-oblanceo- 

 late, 4 to 6 inches long by about half an inch wide, mostly acuminate : flowers pale 

 yellow, sparingly and minutely dotted, on stout pedicels about an inch long ; seg- 

 ments 3 inches long or more, 5 or 6 lines wide, somewhat spreading above or the 

 tips at length recurved : stamens and style a little shorter ; anthers oblong, brownish, 

 3 lines long : capsule narrowly oblong, acutish, nearly 2 inches long by 6 lines in 

 breadth. Proc. Davenport Acad. ii. 188, t. 5, 6, and 1. c. 256. 



In a marsh in San Gorgonio Pass, in the Coast Ranges of San Bernardino County ; first col- 

 lected by Dr. C. C. Parry in July, 1876, in flower. 



