180 LILIACE^E. Clintonia. 



below, 4 to 8 inches long and 1 or 2 broad : peduncle shorter than the leaves, 

 usually with one or two small bracts : flowers solitary, rarely 2, white, 9 to 1 2 lines 

 long, pubescent : filaments nearly a half shorter, pubescent, very attenuate at the 

 apex ; anthers 2 lines long : style exceeding or shorter than the stamens : fruit 4 to 

 6 lines long, the cells 6- 10-seeded. Enum. v. 159 ; Baker, Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 

 584. Smilacina uniflora, Menz. ; Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. ii. 175, t. 190. 



Northern California to British Columbia ; Big Tree Grove (Brewer) ; Plumas County (Mrs. 

 R. M. Austin) ; near Eagle Lake (Miss Plummer) ; Humboldt County (Rattan) ; Scott Moun- 

 tains, Greene. 



2. C. Andrewsiana, Ton. Stout, nearly glabrous, the inflorescence more or 

 less pubescent : stem 2 to 6 inches long : leaves usually 5 or 6, broadly oblong to 

 oblanceolate, 6 to 12 inches long and 2 to 4 wide, acute or very shortly acuminate : 

 peduncle a foot or two high, usually with a foliaceous bract : flowers deep rose-color, 

 numerous, in a terminal umbel and one or more lateral umbellate fascicles ; pedicels 

 slender, unequal, an inch long or less : perianth gibbous at base, 4 to 7 lines long : 

 stamens a half shorter, about equalling the style ; filaments pubescent ; anthers a 

 line long : fruit 4 or 5 lines long, the cells 8 10-seeded. Pacif. E. Eep. iv. 150 ; 

 Baker, 1. c. 585. 



In the Coast Ranges from Santa Cruz (Kellogg, Anderson), to Humboldt County (Rattan) ; 

 April to June. 



25. SCOLIOPUS, Torr. 



Perianth purplish, of 6 distinct spreading deciduous segments ; the 3 outer lan- 

 ceolate, several-nerved, punctate ; the inner narrowly linear, 3-nerved. Stamens 3, 

 at the base of the outer segments ; filaments filiform-subulate ; anthers oblong, 

 2-celled, extrorse, attached above the base. Ovary sessile, narrow and attenuate 

 upward, strongly triquetrous, 1 -celled, the thickened angles placentiferous : style 

 very short : stigmas linear, recurved, deeply channelled down the inner side, per- 

 sistent : ovules several (10) in 2 rows on each placenta, ascending. Capsule thin- 

 membranous, bursting irregularly, oblong-lanceolate. Seeds oblong, slightly curved, 

 sulcate-striate longitudinally, with thin close light-colored testa, a conspicuous dark 

 chalaza, and crested rhaphe. Nearly acaulescent glabrous perennials, with a short 

 coarsely fibrous-rooted rhizome ; the very short stem bearing a pair of thin oval 

 to lanceolate sessile leaves, many-nerved with transverse veinlets, subtending an 

 umbel of long-petioled flowers. The whole plant is more or less punctate with 

 purple dots. 



Only the following species are known. A remarkable genus of rather obscure affinities, but 

 apparently to be grouped with Trillium and the eastern moiiotypical genus Medeolus. 



1. S. Bigelovii, Torr. Stem scarcely rising above ground : leaves oval-elliptic 

 to narrowly oblanceolate, 4 to 15 inches long and 1 to 4 inches wide, acute or 

 acutish, dilated and sheathing at base : pedicels 3 to 12, slender, 3 to 8 inches long, 

 lax and becoming tortuous in fruit : perianth 7 to 9 lines long : stamens a third as 

 long : ovary linear-oblong, 3 to 5 lines long including the short stout style : stigmas 

 2 lines long : capsule light-colored, acute at each end, 9 to 1 4 lines long not includ- 

 ing the style, which is 2 or 3 lines long : seeds few to many, 1 to 1 1 lines long. 

 Pacif. E. Eep. iv. 145, t. 22. 



In the Coast Ranges from Marin to Humboldt County ; flowering in February. 



S. HALLII, Watson, from the Cascade Mountains of Oregon, is distinguished by its smaller 

 leaves (3 to 5 inches long) more narrowed and somewhat petiolate at base ; the very slen'der pedi- 

 cels 2 inches long or less ; ovary less narrowly oblong ; style more slender, and stigmas only a 

 line long ; capsule brown-purple, 5 lines long. The stem is scarcely an inch in length, and the 

 rhizome and rootlets are more slender ; flowers unknown. 



