Lily Family 85 



somewhat nodding, deep purple or rose-color; segments ovate- 

 lanceolate acute, 6-8 mm. long; stamens and style very slender, 

 scarcely equaling the segments ; ovary truncate with very short, 

 rounded crests; capsule obcordate, 4 mm. long. 



On dry rocky hillsides. Santa Monica Mountains and Verdugo Hills. 

 April-May. 



2. A. serratuxn Wats. Scape terete, slender, about 1 dm. 

 high ; bulb nearly globose, without rhizome, its coats with a dis- 

 tinct close horizontally serrate denticulation ; leaves 2 or more, 

 somewhat shorter than the scapes; bracts narrowly acuminate ; 

 perianth segments broadly ovate-lanceolate, 8-12 mm. long, acute 

 or somewhat acuminate, nearly straight and rather rigid, the 

 inner shorter and sometimes serrulate; filaments all with a nar- 

 rowly deltoid base; crests very narrow central. 



Glendale, Davidson. 



4. MUILLA Wats. 



Scape from a fibrous corm and bearing an umbel sub- 

 tended by several small scarious bracts. Leaves mostly 

 few, very narrow, nearly terete. Pedicels not jointed. 

 Perianth subrotate persistent, of 6 nearly equal slightly 

 united oblong-lanceolate segments, greenish- or yellowish- 

 white with a dark 2-nerved midrib. Stamens inserted 

 near the base ; filaments filiform, slightly thickened to- 

 ward the base or petaloid ; anthers versatile. Ovules 

 8-10 in each cell ; style clavate, persistent and at length 

 splitting. Capsule globose scarcely lobed, loculicidal. 

 Seeds compressed and angled. 



1. M. serotina Greene. Scapes 3-5 dm. high, glabrous ; leaves 

 3-4 dm. long, subterete, the upper surfaces nearly plane, the 

 lower convex and sharply 7-striate, the striae retrorsely scabrous ; 

 umbel 40-70-flowered ; pedicels nearly 10 cm. long; perianth 

 rotate about 12 mm. broad, greenish-white; outer segments 

 oblong-linear, the inner oblong; filaments stout, subulate, little 

 compressed; anthers 1 mm. long, lurid purple. 



Frequent in dry stony places in the plains and foothills. April-May. 



