76 LILIACEJE. 



F. pudica, Sprengel. Bulb of 2 or 3 large, rounded scales and many smaller ones: 

 stem 3-8 inches high: leaves 3-8 narrowly oblanceolate or linear, scattered or nearly 

 verticillate, 2-4 inches long, flowers often solitary (1-6), nodding, yellow or orange, 

 often purple-tinged, 5-9 lines long, scarcely spreading. Yreka, Cal., Miss Lillian Vivian. 



EBYTHBONIUM. 



E. giganteum, Lindl. Leaves 6-10 inches long, narrowed to a short margined 

 petiole; scape 10-15 inches high, 1-6-flowered: perianth cream-color tinged with pink, 

 yellow at base; segments broadly lanceolate, 1218 lines long, recurved. This is under 

 E. grandiflorum in the key (var. Smithii) but considered a distinct species by Greene. 



E. Hartwegi, Wats. Described by Greene in Bay-Reg. Bot. as having pale yellow 

 flowers with orange center and segments scarcely recurved, is, according to him, the 

 species growing about Healdsburg on the Russian River and northward. 



E. Henderson!, Wat. Leaves mottled: scape 1-2 flowered, perianth recurved, 18 

 lines long, pale purple with darker base fringed with pale yellow; petals auriculate 

 above the short claw, the auricles sub-saccate with globose-inflated scales: slender fila- 

 ments purple: style clavate, short-lobed stigma cupulate. Oregon. 



E. citrinum, Wat. Similar, flowers smaller, lemon-color with broad orange spots 

 at the base, tips purple-tinged, the filaments yellow or white. Oregon. 



E. Howellii, Wat. Distinguished from the preceding two by pale pink perianth 

 segments with basal orange spots and petals without auricles and scales. 



CALOCHOKTUS. 



C. collinus, Lemmon. Glaucous, 3-10 inches high, simple or branching: flowers 2-6 

 on pedicils 3-6 inches long: sepals elliptical, greenish yellow: petals creamy white ob- 

 ovate, slightly concave 6-9 lines long; gland cuneate, ciliate, purplish: stamens longer 

 than the pistils: obtuse oblong anthers a line or less long: pods nodding. Near C. 

 Maweanus. 



C. liyoni, Wat. Branching stem 1-2 feet high, usually several flowers: sepals 

 naked, acute: petals 12-20 lines long, lilac or purplish, the oblong hairy gland in a 

 larger dark spot: anthers obtuse, 2 lines long or less. Los Angeles. 



C. albus, Dougl, Var. rubellus, Greene. Flowers longer and narrower than the 

 type, rose-colored. Monterey. 



