2gQ LILIACE.E. Clintonia. 



Lelow, 4 to 8 inches long and 1 or 2 broad : peduncle sliorter than the leaves, 

 usually with one or two small hracts : flowers solitary, rarely 2, white, *J to 12 lines 

 long, |)ul>esienL : lilanients nearly a half shorter, puhesceiit, very attenuate at tho 

 apex; anthers 2 lines long: style exceeding or shorter than the stamens : fruit 4 to 

 6 lines long, the cells G- lOseeded. — Enum. v. 1.")'.) ; P.aker, Journ. Linn. .Sue. xiv. 

 58-i. Siiiilacina unijiuni, Menz. ; Hook. Fl. Dor.-Am. ii. 17o, t. 190. 



Northern Cidifoniia to British Cohunliia ; Big Tree Grove (Brewer) ; riunias County (Mrs. 

 R M. Austin) ; near Eagle Lake (Miss Flummcr) ; Humboldt County (Rnltan) ; Scott Moun- 

 tains, Greene. 



2. C. Andrewsiana, Torr. Stout, nearly glabrous, tho inflorescence more or 

 less pubescent : btem 2 to 6 inches long : leaves usually 5 or G, broadly oblong to 

 oblanceolate, 6 to 12 inches long and 2 to 4 wide, acute or very sliortly acuminate : 

 peduncle a foot or two high, usually with a foliaceous bract : llowers deep rose-colur, 

 numerous, in a terminal umbel and one or more lateral umbellate fascicles ; pedicels 

 slender, uneq\ial, an inch long or less : jjeriantli gibbous at base, -1 to 7 lines long : 

 stamens a half shorter, about equalling the style ; iilaments pubescent ; anthers a 

 line long : fruit 4 or 5 lines long, the cells 8- 10-seeded. — Pacif. li. Hep. iv. 150 ; 

 Baker, 1. c. 585. 



In the Coast Ranges from Santa Cruz (Kclloijg, Anderson), to Ilumljoldt County (Raltan\ ; 

 April to June. 



25. SCOLIOPUS, Torr. 



Perianth purplish, of G distinct spreading deciduous segments ; tho 3 outer lan- 

 ceolate, several-nerved, punctate ; the inner narrowly linear, 3-nerved. Stamens 3, 

 at the base of the outer segments; iilaments liliform-subulato ; anthers oblong, 

 2-celled, extrorse, attached above the base. Ovary sessile, narrow and attenuate 

 upward, strongly triipietrous, 1-celled, the thickened angles jdacentiferous : style 

 very short : stigmas linear, recurved, deeply channelled down the inner side, per- 

 sistent : ovules several (10) in 2 rows on each placenta, ascending. Capsule thin- 

 membranous, bursting irregularly, oblong-lanceolate. Seeds oblong, slightly curved, 

 sulcate-striate longitudinally, with thin close light-colored testa, a conspicuous dark 

 chalaza, and crested rhaphe. — ]S^ early acaulescent glabrous perennials, with a short 

 coarsely fibrous-rooted rhizome; the very short stem bearing a pair of thin oval 

 to lanceolate sessile leaves, many-nerved with transverse veinlets, subtending an 

 umbel of long-petioled llowers. The whole plant is more or less punctate with 

 purple dots. 



Only the following species are known. A rcmaikahle genus of ratlier ohscure atiinitits, but 

 apparently to be grouped with TrillUua and the eastern munotypical genus Mcdeulus. 



1. S. Bigelovii, Torr. Stem scarcely rising above ground : leaves oval-elliptic 

 to narrowly uhhuiceolate, 4 to 15 inches long and \\ to 4 inches wide, acute or 

 acutish, dilated and sheathing at base : pedicels 3 to 12, slender, 3 to 8 inches long, 

 lax and becoming tortuous in fruit : perianth 7 to 9 lines long : stamens a third as 

 long : ovary linear-oblong, 3 to 5 lines long including the short stout style : stigmas 

 2 lines long : capsule light-colored, acute at each end, 9 to 14 lines long not includ- 

 ing the style, which is 2 or 3 lines long: seeds few to many, 1 to 1 1 lines long. — 

 Pacif. I{. Kep. iv. 145, t. 22. 



In the Coast Itanges from Maiin to Humboldt County ; flowering in February. 



S. HAbLir, Watson, from the Cascade Mountains of Oregon, is distinguished by its smaller 

 leaves (3 to 5 inches long) more narrowed and somewhat ]jetiolate at base ; the very slender jiedi- 

 cels 2 inches long or less ; ovary less narrowly oblong ; style more slender, and stigmas only a 

 Ime long ; capsule brown-purple, 5 lines long. The stem is scarcely an inch in length, and the 

 rhizome and rootlets are more slender ; llowers unknown. 



