LILIACLE. 



75 



Triteleia Hya. 

 cinthina. 



Triteleia laxa. 



as long as the tube: stamens in one row, 

 the filaments equal. Oregon. 



T. scabra, Greene. Scape 6-3 inches 

 high, scabrous, the leaves scabrous 

 serrulate: perianth segments broad, ob- 

 tuse or retuse: forks of the filaments 

 slender, erect; anthers white. 



T. Henderson!, Greene. Scape and 

 leaves about 10 inches high: pedicels 6-8, slender, 1-2 

 inches long: perianth funnel-form, 9 lines long cleft to the 

 middle, yellowish with purple veins: filaments equal, free 

 above the perianth tube: anthers less than a line long, 

 blue, obtuse. Or. 

 T. hyacinthina, Greene, is in Bay-Keg. Bot. Hesperoscordum lacteum, Lindl. 



BREVOORTIA. 



B. coccinea in the key should be B. Ida-Maia, Wood. In Bay-Reg. Bot. it is 

 Dichelostemma Ida-Maia, (Wood) Greene. It was named by Prof. Alfonso Wood 

 for the stage driver's little daughter who was with him when he first saw the flowers, 

 (1866). No matter what generic name is finally fastened upon it by botanists the chil- 

 dren of California will call it Ida May's Fire-crackers. 



Smilacina is Vagnera in Bay-Reg. Bot. Maianthemum is Unifolium, and 

 Prosartes is Disporum, the specific names unchanged in the first and last; M. bi- 

 folium of this book is U. dilatatum in Greene's manual. 



FRITILLARIA. 



F. coccinea, Greene. Stems 8-18 inches high: leaves in 2 or 3 whorls, linear-lan- 

 ceolate: flowers 1-4, an inch longer: segments not recurved at tip, yellow and scarlet, 

 checkered: styles distinct above, stigmas linear: pod obtusely angled. Sonoma and 

 Napa Co's. 



F. biflora. var. agrestis, Greene. Stem 1-2 feet high from an ovoid cluster of 

 sub-cylindraceous bulb-scales: leaves a whorl of 3 below the upper alternate ones: flow- 

 ers 3-6, nodding-campanulate, greenish, an inch long, odor bad: Stamens shorter than 

 the pistil: style cleft nearly to the base. Interior Coast Range. 



. F. glauca, Greene. Stems 6-8 inches high: leaves alternate, oblong-lanceolate, 

 glaucous: flowers 1-2, very broadly campanulate, greenish or purplish, the segments an 

 inch long. Near Waldo, Or. 



F. mutica in Bay-Reg. Bot. is F. lanceolata, Pursh., var. floribunda, Benth., of 

 this book. 



