352 LILIACEJE. (LILY FAMILY.) 



2. F. pudica, Spreng. Bulb of numerous very small rounded scales : 

 stem 3 to 8 inches high, 1 to 6-flowered : leaves 3 to 8, scattered or somewhat 

 verticillate : flowers usually solitary, nodding, yellow or orange and tinged with 

 purple: styles connate and stigma shortly 3-lobed: capsule oblong to subglobose. 

 From Utah and Montana to the Sierra Nevada and British Columbia. 



12. ERYTHRONIUM, L. DOG'S-TOOTH VIOLET. 



Stem bearing near Ihe base a pair of closely approximate flat dilated net- 

 veined leaves : flowers showy, solitary or few in a naked raceme. 



1. E. grandiflorum, Pursh. Leaves not mottled, opposite : flowers 

 1 to 6, yellow or cream-colored, with a more or less orange base, 1 or 2 inches 

 long : capsule narrowly oblong. 



Var. minor, Morren. Flowers smaller, an inch long, bright yellow. 

 Colorado and Utah. 



13. LLOYD I A, Salisb. 



The bulb upon an oblique rhizome, covered by the persistent scarious bases 

 of the nearly filiform leaves. 



1. L. serotina, Reichenb. Stem 2 to 6 inches high, equalling the leaves : 

 flowers erect; perianth-segments oblanceolate, obtuse, obscurely pitted at 

 base, capsule obovate, obtusely angled : seeds chestnut-colored. Mountains 

 of Colorado and northward throughout the alpine and arctic regions of the 

 northern hemisphere. 



14. CALOCHORTUS, Pursh. 



Stems usually flexuous and branching : leaves few, linear-lanceolate, radical 

 and cauline, the latter alternate and clasping, all with many nerves and trans- 

 verse veinlets : flowers few, showy. In ours the flowers are open-cam panu- 

 late, white or lilac, with densely hairy glands, and the capsule narrowly oblong 

 with thick obtusely angled lobes. 



1. C. Nuttallii, Torr & Gray. Stem slender, bulbiferous at base, with 

 a single narrow canline leaf (sometimes 2 or 3), umbellately 1 to 5-flowered : 

 sepals often with a dark or hairy spot : petals an inch or two long, white 

 tinged with greenish yellow or lilac, with a purplish spot or band aboce the yellow 

 base, and hairy around the circular or oblong gland: anthers obtuse. Pacif. R. 

 Rep. ii. 124. From New Mexico and Colorado to Dakota and California. 



2. C. Gunnisoni, Watson. Like the last, but with acuminate anthers 

 and a broad transverse gland: petals light lilac, yellowish green Lelow the middle, 

 banded and lined with purple. Bot. King Exped. v. 348. Mountains from 

 Wyoming to New Mexico. 



15. STREPTOPUS, Michx. 



Stems rather stout, with forking and divergent branches, ovate and taper- 

 pointed rounded-clasping membranaceous leaves, and small flowers on slender 

 peduncles, which are abruptly bent or contorted near the middle. 



