-[56 LILIACE.E llrodimi. 



Frequent from Santa Barbara and Fort Tcjnu to Oregon ; also in the Sierra Nevaila to an alti- 

 tude of 9,000 feet. 



14. B. lactea, AVattJon, 1. c. Scapes usually a foot or two liij^'li, smooth or sca- 

 brous : pedicels few to many, slender, ^ to 2 inches long : perianth white with a 

 green midvein, or sometimes purplish, 4 or 5 lines long : iilaments equal, deltoid, 

 usually about a line long : anthers small, oblong, yellow or purple : capsule subglo- 

 bose, abruptly beaked by the short sleiulcr style ; stipe usually a line or two long : 

 seeds 2 to G (ovules 8 or 10) in each cell, a lino long. — Ile^peroscordam /ii/acinlhi- 

 num, Lindl. Bot. Ileg. under t. 1293. //. ladeum, l>indl. 1. c. t. l(j;59 ; Wood, 1. c. 

 171. H. Lewlsil, Hook. Y\. P,or.-Am. ii. ISo, t. 198. Allium ladeum, 15enth. PI. 

 Hartw. 339. VeatcJna cri/stalliiia, Kellogg, I.e. ii. 11. Jlilla hyacinthina, Baker, 

 1. c. 385. Allium Tilingi, IJegel, All. :Monogr. 124. 



Var. lilacina, Watson, 1. c. A stout form, with large flowers (5 to 7 lines long), 

 from white becoming more or less tinged with lilac. 



Frequent tlirou;^]i California, from ^lonterey to britisli Columbia ; above Carson City (Ander- 

 son) ; I'hunas County, Mr^. ^liistin. Tlie variety from l^k-ndocino and Humboldt Counties. 



5. STROPHOLIRION, Torr. 

 Perianth persistent, rose-colored, sbort-funnelform, contracted at tbe tliroat, the 

 6-saccate and 6-angled tube nearly equalling tbe spreading 1 nerved segments. 

 Stamens 3, on the throat oppositi; tlie inner segnnuits, alternate with 3 ligulate, 

 emargiuate stamiuodia ; filaments very short, with a lanceolate wing eacb side; 

 anthers linear-sagittate, basifixed. Ovary nearly sessile, with short persistent style ; 

 cells 4-ovuled. Capside ovate, acuminate, on a short stipe. Seeds angled, black, 

 usually one in each cell. — Scape elongateil and climbing, from a coated conn, bear- 

 ing a many-flowered und)el with jointed pedicels ; leaves broadly linear. A single 

 Californian species. — Rupallei/a, ^Moriere. 



1. S. Californicum, Torr. Corm nearly an incli in diameter: leaves a foot 

 long or more, 4 to 6 lines broad, carinate : scape roughish, 2 to 4 (or even 12) feet 

 long, lax and often twining over bushes: pedicels inimerous (15 to 30), slender, 

 mostly a lialf to an inch long : j)erianth 5 or G lines long, with oblong lanceolate 

 segments : anthers 2 lines long, equalling the lanceolate acute wings and narrow 

 often jjube-'^cent staminodia : capsule 4 lines long, including the style, narrowed at 

 base: seed 2 lines long. — Pacif. P. Pep. iv. 149, t. 21. Ritjxtlleija voluljilis, 

 IMoriere, liull. Soc Linn. Norm. viii. 313, t^ jdate. JJirholestemma C'lli/aniiai, 

 Wood, JVoc. Acad. Philad. 18G8, 173. Bnnlina culnhills, P.aker, Journ. Liini. Soc. 

 xi. 377; Hook. f. P...t. i\lag. t. G123. 



Conuuon in tlu! foothills of the Sierra Nevada, from Mariposa Count}' northward, and in the 

 valley of the Saeramento. 



6. BREVOORTIA, Wood. 

 Perianth persistent, deep scarlet, rather broadly tidjular, sbortly G saccate at the 

 truncate base, slightly constricted above, the short yellowish segments erect or 

 sometimes reflexed, faintly 1-nerved. Stamens 3, on the throat opposite to tbe inner 

 segments, alternate; wilh 3 very broad truncate coronaliko staminodia; Iilaments 

 •very short, naked ; anthers narrowly oblong, basifixed, emargiuate at each end. Ovary 

 stipitate, with elongated persistent style ; cells 4 - G-ovuled. Capsule triangular- 

 ovate, acuminate. Seeds angled, black. — Scape erect, from a coaled corm, bearing 

 a few-flowered undjel with jointed pedic(ds ; leaves linear. A single species. — Proc. 

 Philad. Acad. 18G7, 82. 



