134 SYNOPSIS OF THE FLORA OF COLORADO. 



SMILACINA STELLATA, Desf. Hall & Harbour, 544. Wet Mountain 

 Valley, Brandegee. Near Denver, Dr. Smith ; B. H. Smith. Colorado 

 Springs, Porter ; Meehan. Saint Vrain River, Clear Creek and Middle 

 Boulder, Coulter. 



LILIUM PHILADELPHIOUM, L. Bear Creek and Platte Eiver, just 

 within the foot-hills, Coulter. Chiann Canon, Porter. 



CALOCHORTUS 1 GuNNisoNi, Watson. King's Rep., vol. 5, p. 348, 

 fC. venustus, var. Torr. Bot. Gunnison's Rep. Pac. R. R. Surv., 2, p. 130.) 

 Petals rounded at the apex, white above, yellowish -green below the 

 middle and dark purple at base, strongly bearded with lougish, gland- 

 tipped hairs, which are also dark purple at base, the densely hairy 

 laud transverse and occupying nearly the whole width of the petal ; 

 aathers 5" long, rather exceeding the somewhat dilated filaments, ob- 

 long-lanceolate, subcordate at base, narrowed above into an awn-like 

 termination or acute; immature capsule narrowly oblong, attenuate 

 above. Stem 6'-20' high, simple, 1-4 flowered with 1-3 narrowly linear, 

 revolute leaves, 2 / -4 / long, the radical ones (1-few) longer (8'-12',) and 

 usually broader (4".) Hall & Harbour, 549 ; Parry. Denver, B. H. 

 Smith. Colorado Springs, Porter. Meehan. Plains of the Platte, Pleas- 

 ant Park, South Park, and Weston's Pass, Coulter. 



LLOYDIA 2 SEROTINA, Reich. 'Kunth. Enum., 4, p. 244. Stem 1-2 flow- 

 ered, slender, erect or ascending, 2'-5' high; radical leaves filiform, 

 equaling or longer than the stem, somewhat rigid, triangular, semi- 

 terete or teretish, cauline ones short, linear-lanceolate, amplexicaul and 

 somewhat sheathing ; sepals 4 // -5 // long, obovate, with 3 purplish lines. 

 Alpine. Pike's Peak. Hall & Harbour, 552 ; Porter. Gray's Peak, 

 at 1,200 feet altitude, Coulter; Red field. 



ERYTHRONIUM GRANDIFLORUM, Pursh. Leaves 4 / -8 / long, l'-2' 

 wide, oblong or elliptic-lanceolate, somewhat rough-margined, not spot- 

 ted or punctate ; scape 6'-l5' high, 1 (or more) flowered; segments yel- 

 low, O^-lo" long, narrow-lanceolate, acuminate, reflexed; stigma capitate 

 or more or less 3-cleft and spreading; capsule 9"-18" long, 4"-5" wide, 

 oblong or obovoid, subtriangular, on a short stipe. White House Moun- 

 tain, at 13', 000 feet altitude, August, in flower, and Sierra Madre Range, 

 at 11,000 feet, in fruit, Coulter. 



'CALOCHORTUS, Pursh. (Including Cydobothm, Sweet.) Perianth 6-parted, regular, 

 deciduous, ventricose or broadly campanulate ; sepals distinct, convolute in aestivation, 

 the outer smaller, often greenish, oblong or lanceolate, acute or acuminate, spreading, 

 usually beardless, the inner broadly obovate, cuneate and subunguiculate, bearded 

 within and with a glabrous spot or nectariferous pit above the base. Stamens 6, in- 

 serted at the base of the sepals. Filaments subulate. Anthers linear-oblong, deeply 

 perforated at the base for the insertion of the filament, erect, versatile. Ovary free, 

 triangular, scarcely attenuate at the apex, 3-celled with numerous horizontal anatro- 

 pous ovules in two rows. Stigmas 3, sessile or sub-sessile, narrow, folded, recurved, 

 persistent. Capsule triangular, coriaceous-chartaceous, septicidally 3-valved. Seeds 

 usually in one row, somewhat compressed, angular, with a loose, cellular testa. 

 Embryo straight, terete, eccentric. Herbs with tunicated bulbs, erect, somewhat 

 branched, leafy, few-flowered stems, narrow and acuminate leaves, and terminal 

 flowers. 



2 LLOYDIA, Salisb. Perianth 6-parted, regular, persistent ; sepals distinct, subequal, 

 spreading, with a transverse margined nectariferous fold above the base, imbricate in 

 aestivation. Stamens 6, inserted at the base of the sepals, erect-spreading ; filaments 

 subulate-filiform ; anthers oblong, rounded at the apex, deeply perforated at the emar- 

 ginate base for the insertion of the filament, erect, versatile, longitudinally dehiscent 

 along each margin. Ovary free, clavate-oblong, triangular, 3-celled, the ovules nu- 

 merous, in two rows, horizontal, anatropous. Style persistent ; stigma rather thick, 

 shortly 3-lobed. Capsule ob ovate-elliptical, triangular, papyraceous, loculicidally 

 3-valved at the apex. Seeds in two rows in each cell, flattened, with a brown, mern- 

 branously margined testa and very small embryo. Bulbous herbs, stem simple, leafy; 

 leaves narrow and grass-like ; flowers erect, white, with purple or greenish veins. 



