|gg LILIACE.E. Lilium. 



•i- -I— Flotvers erect or ascending, smaller. 



3. L. rubescens, Watson. Bulb as in L. Washiuf/foniannm, but much snmller 

 (about 2 inches in ilianieter), the tliick broadly hxnceohvte scales an inch long : stem 

 usually stout, 1 to 7 feet high, smooth : leaves glabrous, glaucous beneath, unilulato 

 or tiat, the lower scattered, the upjier in 3 to 7 whorls, oblanceolate, acute or acutish, 

 1 to 4 inches long and (J to 12 lines wide: llowers usually several, on ascending 

 pedicels 1 to 3 inches long, i)ale lilac or nearly white, becoming rose-purple, some- 

 what dotted with brown ; segments Ij or 2 inches long, the ni)per third revolute : 

 stamens and style a third shorter ; anthers 2 or 3 lines long : ovary wing-angled, 

 attenuate downward, half an inch long. — Proc. Amer. Acad. xiv. 256. L. Wash- 

 inc/tonianum, \a.\'. purpureum, IMasters, Gard. Chron. 2 ser. ii. 322, fig. 67; Elwes, 

 same, vi. 24-2 ; ]]aker, 1. c. 233. 



On wooded hillsides iu tlie Coast Ranges, from Marin {Bolandcr) to Humboldt Couiitips, llattuii. 



* * Flowers orange-yellow or reddish, mostly conspicuously sj/ot(ed : segments 



oblanceolate. 



H- Flowers erect or horizontal, small. 



4. L. pai'VUm, Kell. Bulbs small, of short thick juinted scales a half-inch to 

 an inch long, upon a branching rhizome : stem slender, U to 6 feet high or more : 

 leaves .scattered or in whorls, 2 to 5 inches long and an inch broad or less, sometimt\s 

 linear, acute or acuminate : llowers 2 to very many (30 to 50), erect or nearly so on 

 slender suberect pedicels 2 to 4 inches long, scattered or somewhat verticillate, yel- 

 low or orange within and usually spotted with purple, reddish above ; segments nar- 

 rowly oblanceolate, 1 to U inches long, more or less spreading or the tips recurved, 

 pubescent toward the apex : stamens an inch long, nearly or quite equalling the 

 style ; anthers ol)l(inir, 1 or 2 lines long : capsule subspherical, 6 to 9 lines hing, 

 truncate above. — J'n>c. Calif. Acad. ii. 170, lig. 12; Begel, GartenlL 1872, 1()3, 

 t. 725; Elwes, ]\lonogr. Lil. t. 24. L. Canadense, var. Walkeri, Wood, 1. c. IGG. 

 L. Canadense, var. parvuni. Baker, 1. c. 241 ; Hook. f. Bot. Mag. t. 61 46. 



In the Sierra Nevada at an elevation of 4,000 to 8,000 feet, and northward into Oie^'on. 

 Distinguished from L. Coliunblanuvi by the dilfercnt bulb, and by tlie smaller less nodding 

 flowers, their segments less recurved. 



5. L. maritimum, Kell. Bulb conical, 1 to Ii inches in diameter, with close- 

 pressed scales ; .stem a foot or two high or more, slender : leaves scattered or very 

 rarely somewhat verticillate, narrowly oblanceolate or linear, 1 to 5 inches long and 

 3 to 6 lines wide, obtuse : llowers 1 to 5, on long peduncles, horizontal, deep reddish 

 orange, spotted within with purple; segments lanceolate, 15 to 18 lines long, the 

 upper third somewhat recurved : stamens scarcely an inch long, exceeding the style, 

 with oblong anthers 2 lines long: "capsules long and narrow." — Proc. Calif. Ac^ad. 

 vi. 140. L. Canadense, vav. 2i(irvijloruni, Bolandcr, same, v. 206. 



Near the coast, in low black peaty meadows, from San Fianeiseo to Humboldt County {KcIUkhj 

 k Harford, n. 997) ; Albion and Noyo swainjJS {Bolandcr, n. 4827, (5557) ; (lowering from May to 

 August. According to Bolander, it grows when in sheltered situations to a height of 3 to 5 feet, 

 bearing numero\is llower.s. 



^- -1- Flowers nodding, larger, witli revolute segments. 

 ++ Bulhs rhiuomatoiis. 

 (). L. pardalinum, Kellogg. Bhizomes thick and branching, forming mat-like 

 masses of roundisii oblate bulbs, the .scales jointed near the base : stems 3 to 7 feet 

 high : leaves usually in 3 or 4 whoils of 9 to 15, scattered above and below, nar- 

 rowly lanceolate and sharidy acuminate, 3 to 7 inches long and 9 to 12 lines broad, 

 deep green, thin and faintly 3-nerved, glabrous and glaucous, as also the stem : 

 flowers few to many, racemose or the lower in whorls, on long spreading pedicels ; 

 segments 2 or 3 inches long and 6 to 9 lines wide, lanceolate, strongly revolute, 



