Lrncocrimnn. LILIACE.K. ir'r 



1. B. coccinea, Watson. Corm G to 9 linos in diameter, witli reticulated and 

 somewhat libruus coats, and often with lateral bulblets : leaves a foot or two long or 

 mfirc, 2 to 4 lines witle, carinate, glaucous : scape slender, erect, 1 to 3 feet liTgh, 

 bearing an umbel of G to 15 flowers: pedicels KJ to 12 lines long or more, slender: 

 l)eriantli 12 to IG lines long ; the segments ovate, 2 or 3 lines long, greenisli-yellow : 

 anthers equalling the limb ; staminotlia a half shorter, yellow : capsule on a stipe 2 

 or 3 lines long, ovate-oblong, attciniate upwartl into the somewhat i)ersistent style : 

 seeds 2 liiu\s long. — Proc. yVm. Acad. xiv. 239. Jl Idn-Maia, Wood, 1. c. Br<xli<ea 

 corrinm, (Jray, Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 380; JJaker, Journ. l.inn. 8oc. xi. 378; Hook, 

 f. Pot. Mag. t. 58.57. 



In v'u'h soil ill tlie inoiuitains from lliuiiholdt to Shasta Counties ; (lowuring in May .and June. 

 A sliowy species, very distinct in its coloring. 



7. ANDROSTEPHIUM, Toir. 

 Perianth persistent, pale lilac or purplish, funnelform, G-cleft, the cylindric tube 

 nearly erpialling or shorter than the spreading narrowly oblong 1-nerved segments. 

 Stamens in one row on the throat, the lilaments united to form a tubular corona 

 with erect bilid lobes alternate with the oblong versatile anthers. Ovary ovate, 

 sessile, with elongated' persistent style. Capsule subglobose, triquetrous. Seeds 

 several in each cell, large, black. — Scape from a somewhat fibrous-coated corm, 

 bearing a few-flowered umbel with inarticulate pedicels ; leaves narrowly linear, 

 channelled. Only two species. — Pot. j\Iex. ]>ound. 218. 



1. A. breviflorum, Watson. Corm small : leaves scabrous, a line broad or 

 less : scai)o rather stout, 4 to 12 inches high, scabrous eR})ecially below: flowers 3 

 to 12, on pedicels ^ to U inches long, light ])urple, about half an inch long, the tube 

 much shorter than the segments ; corona half tlie length of the limb or more, its 

 lobes e(iualling or shorter than the antliers (U lines long): capsule broader than 

 long (4 or 5 lines), somewhat deeply 3-lobed : seeds 3 or 4 lines long, usually G in 

 eacli cell. — Am. Naturalist, vii. 303. 



On gravelly hills near Fort .Alohave, rare (Dr. J. G. Cooper, in fruit in February), and eastward 

 to S. Utaii, MrK. Thompson, Bishop, Parnj. Tlie second species (./. viol((ccitiii', Torr.) is found 

 from Texas to Western Ivansas, and differs esjieeially in its larger flowers on sliorter pedieels, the 

 tube of the periantli comparatively longer and nearly eipialliiig the limb, and the crown e.\ceeding 

 the anthers ; scape usually very low. 



8. LEUCOCRINUM, Nutt. 

 Perianth salver-form with a very slender elongated tube, white, persistent ; seg- 

 ments narrowly lanceolate, several-nerved. Stamens G ; filaments filiform, inserted 

 below the throat; anthers lint^ar, attached near the base, introi-se. Ovary sessile, 

 ovate-oblong : stylo persistent, elongated and filiform, c(pialling the stamens, tubu- 

 lar, the orifice somewhat expanded and slightly 3-lobed : ovules sevend in each cell. 

 Capsule triangular-obovate, subcoriaceous, loculicidally dehiscent. Seeds obovate, 

 strongly angled, Avitli a dull black testa. — Acaulescent, with a short deep-seated 

 rhizome and fleshy roots, narrowly linear leaves surrounded at base by .scarious 

 bracts, and a central sessile umbel of showy fragrant flowers ; floral bracts sheathing 

 the pedicels. A single species. 



1. L. montanuiu, Xutt. Leaves 8 to 12 or more, flat and rather thick, 4 to 8 

 inches long an<l 1 to 3 lines broad, the narrow underground bases (1 to 3 inches 

 long) surrounded by broad scarious acutish bracts ; inner bracts very narrow : flowers 

 4 to 8, on short peilicels (G to 18 lines long) from the summit of the rhizome ; tube 



