116 LILIACE^. (LILY FAMILLY.) 



M. bifolium, DC. Somewhat pubescent; about six inches high; leaves ovate-cor- 

 date with a broad sinus; style long and slender; berry 2 lines in diameter. 



10. YUCCA, L. 



Perianth campanulate, white or whitish; segments ovate-lanceolate, many nerved, 

 Filaments clavate; anthers small. Style stout and persistent (or none); the emarginate 

 stigmas connate into a stigmatic tube. 



1. IT. Wkipplel, Torr. Caudex none or short; leaves rigid, serrulate, smooth, 

 ending in a brown spine; scape 4 to 12 ft. high with imbricated sheathing bracts; panicle 

 narrow and spike-like, dense; greenish-white flowers sub-rotate; segments oblong, 

 lanceolate, ,1 or 2 inches long; stigma slightly 3-lobed, 



11. LILIT7M, Tourn. LILT. 



Perianth-segments spreading or recurved, with a honey-bearing furrow at the base. 

 Anthers linear, distinctly versatile. Style long; stigma 3-lobed. Capsule not sharply 

 angled; seeds flat. Stem simple, bearing many whorled or scattered sessile leaves and 

 one to many showy flowers. 



* Perianth-segments narrowing gradually into a claw. 



1. L. rubescens, Wat. Leaves oblanceolate more or less verticillate; flowers 

 ascending or nearly erect, usually 1^ or 2 inches long, with re volute segments, pale 

 lilac or nearly white, becoming rose-purple; anthers 2 or 3 lines long. 



L. Washingtonianum, Kellogg, of the northern counties, is much larger, the 

 fragrant white flowers 3 or 4 inches long. 



* * Perianth-segments oblanceolate, yellow or orange, coarsely spotted with brown. 



2. L. maritinmm. Kellogg. Stem rather low; leaves usually scattered; narrow, 

 often obtuse; flowers solitary or few, horizontal, l to 2 inches long, deep reddish- 

 orange. Style and stamens short, anthers 2 lines long. 



3. L. parclalinum, Kellogg (Tiger Lily). Rhizome thick and branching; scales 

 jointed below; leaves flat, smooth, narrowly lanceolate to linear, the middle in whorls of 

 9 to 15; flowers bright orange red, lighter to yellow in the center, 2 or 3 inches long; 

 segments strongly re volute; anthers 4 or 5 lines long. 



L. PARRTI, WAT., of San Bernadino Co., has pale yellow flowers. 



L. PARVTJM KELLOGG, of the Sierra Nevada, has small yellow cr orange flowers on large stems from 



rhizomatous bulb. 

 L. OOLUMCIANUM, HANSON, of the northern Sierra Nevada, resembles L. PARDALINUM; but the bulb 



is small , not rhizomatous. 

 L. HUMBOLDTII, closely resembles the last, but has a large bulb, 10 to 20 leaves in a whorl, larger 



flowers and an obovoid capsule. 



12. FHITILLARIA, L. 



Perianth segments mostly broader than in Lilium and concave; the anthers more 

 obscurely versatile. Nectary a shallow pit. Styles united to the middle in our species. 



