Lilium. LILIACE^. 265 



On dry rocky hills from Monterey to San Diego and eastward into Arizona. V. (jrnvunifolia, 

 Wood, 1. c., from the mountains east of Los Angeles, ajipears to be a form or variety with longer 

 and narrower leaves (20 inehes by 3 lines), iaxer and more deeply channelled, revolutc toward 

 the apex and terminated by a more slender spine : pod 18 lines long, transversely rugose. 



18. LILIUM, Linn. Lily. 



Perianth deciduous, funiielforni, of G distinct equal oblanceolate s[)reading or re- 

 curved segments, with a nectariferous groove toward tlie base, net-veined, wliitc, 

 yellow, or red, often spotted with brown. Stamens G, liypogynous, included ; fila- 

 ments elongated ; anthers linear to oblong, versatile, cxtrorse, dehiscent laterally. 

 Ovary sessile, many-ovuled ; style long, clavate, deciduous; stigma 3-lobed. Cap- 

 sule coriaceous, loculicidal, erect, somewhat G-angled. Seeds numerous, flat, hori- 

 zontal, in 2 rows in each cell, with brownish thin testa. — Stems leafy, simple, from 

 scaly bulbs ; leaves narrow, sessile, whorlod or scattered, net-veined ; flowers largo 

 and showy, solitary or racemose or subumbellato ; pedicels not jointed, with folia- 

 ceous bracts. — Baker, Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 225; Watson, Proc. Amer. Acad, 

 xiv. 255. 



A genus of nearly 50 species, of the northern temperate zone, extensively cultivated for their 

 showy and often fragrant flowers. More than half are natives of Eastern Asia, and 4 or 5 species 

 are found in the Atlantic States. The C'aliforniaii species have lately been introduced into 

 European gardens, and some of them are very handsome. 



* Floiucrs spotless or only finely dotted, white or purplish or pale yellow, the 

 spreading segments with long narrow claws. 



-)— Flowers horizontal, large. 



1. L. Washingtonianum, Koll. P>ulbs large, somewhat rhizomatous and 

 oblique (becoming G or 8 inches long), the thin imbricated lanceolate scales 2 or 3 

 inches long and not jointed : stems terete, 2 to 5 feet high, glabrous or slightly 

 scabrous : leaves in several whorls of G to 12 (tlie upper and lower usually scattered), 

 oblanceolate, acute or acutish, 2 to 5 inches long and 8 to 12 linos wide, more or 

 less niididate : flowers very fragrant, pure white becoming purplish, or often sparingly 

 and finely dotted, 2 to 20 or more in a thyrsoid raceme, horizontally declinate on 

 stout nearly erect pedicels 1 to 4 inches long ; segments 3 or 4 inches long and 4 to 

 8 lines wide, the upper tliird spreading : stamens a little shorter, with yellow anthers 

 5 or G lines long : ovary 7 to 10 lines long : cai)sule obovate-ol)long, truncate, ob- 

 tusely G-angled or sometimes narrowly winged, 15 lines long or more. — Proc. Calif. 

 Acad. ii. 13; also independently by Wood, Proc. Philad. Acad. 18G8, IGG; Hegel, 

 Gartenfl. t. 710 ; Fl. Serres, t. 1795. 



In the Cuyumaca Mountains, San Diego County (Palmrr), and on the western slope of tlio 

 Sierra Nevada at an altitude of 3,000 to 6,000 feet, northward to the Columbia Hiver. A beauti- 

 ful sj)ecies, growing in loose soil on ridges or liglitly shaded hillsides. 



2. L. Parryi, Watson. Pulb small, somewhat rhizomatous, of numerous thick 

 jointed scales about an inch long: stem slender, glabrous, 2 to 5 feet high, 2-10- 

 llowered : leaves usually scattered, sometimes the lower in a whorl, linear-oblanceo- 

 late, 4 to 6 inches long by about half an inch wide, mostly acuminate : flowers pale 

 yellow, sparingly and minutely dotted, on stout pedicels about an inch long ; seg- 

 ments 3 inches long or more, 5 or G lines wide, somewhat spreading above or the 

 tips at length recurved : stamens and style a little shorter ; anthers oblong, brownish, 

 3 lines long: capsule narrowly oldong, acutish, nearly 2 inches long by G lines in 

 breadth. — Proc. Davenport Acad. ii. 188, t. 5, G, ami 1. c. 25G. 



In a marsh in San dorgonio Pass, in the Coast Ifanges of San l.ernardino County ; fii-st col- 

 lected by Dr. C. C. Parry in July, 1876, in flower. 



