Muilla. LILIACE^. 151 



S 4 Scape much flattened and 2-cdgrd, short, from an ovate coated bulb : leaves 



2, thick, broadly linear, flatand falcate. 



* Bracts 2 : stamens included : ovary mostly crested. 



19 A falcifolium, Hook. & Arn. Eulb-coats not reticulated: scape 2 or 3 



inches hi'.h 1 ..r 'l Inies broad : leaves 3 or 4 lines broad : flowers rose-colored the 



lanceolate s;gments attenuate and spreading above, minutely gl^^dular-serrate 4 to 6 



lines long, nearly twice longer than the stamens and style : ^^gf ^ ^^if J^^'' l 



short narrow central crests. - Bot. Beechey, 400 ; Watson, 1. c. 488, t. i(S, hg. 7, 8 



hrthe" Coast Ranges, from Sonoma to Humboldt Counties {Douglas, Bolandcr) and .southwestern 

 Oregon {Rattan) ; Siskiyou County, Lcmmon. 



^Q A Breweri, Watson. Bulbs large, 6 to 9 lines in diameter the coats with- 

 out reticiilation : scape an inch or two above ground, a line or two broad : leaves L 

 to 5 lines broad : bracts acute : flowers deep rose-color, the lanceolate acute segmen s 

 nearly erect, 5 or 6 lines long, a third longer than the stamens : ovary and capsule 

 with a thick slightly lobed crest upon each cell. — Proc. Amer. Acad. xiv. .33. 



Sunmiit of Mount Diablo, in dry sunny places {Brewer, n. 1060) ; May. 



21 A anceps, Kell. Bulb-coats with minute transversely oblong reticulation: 

 scape 2 o'r 3 inches high and 2 lines wide : bracts acute : pedicels lax 6 to 8 lines 

 lone.: flowers nearly white with purplish midveins, the very narrowly lanceolate 

 acuminate lax segments scarcely gibbous at base 3 o; 4 hues long itt e exceeding 

 the stamens: crests 6, broad, obtuse. - Proc. Calif. Acad. ii. 109, hg. 32, Wat.on, 

 Bot. King Exp. 3.52, t. 36, hg. 4-6 (capsule faulty). 



East base of tlie Siena Nevada, from Carson City to Oregon. 



22 A Lemmoni, Watson. Scape 6 inches high : leaves nearly straight : 

 flowe'rs rather numerous, pale rose-color, on pedicels 6 to 8 lines long, the ovate- 

 lanceolate acuminate segments gibbous at base, 4 lines long, a little exceeding the 

 stamens: crests 6, broad, obscure. — Proc. Amer. Acad. xiv. 234. 



In the Sierra Nevada, Sierra County, J. G. Lcmmon. 



* * Bracts 3 to 5: stamens someivhat exserted : ovary not crested, 

 n A platycaule, Watson, 1. c. Bulb-coats without reticulation : scape stout, 

 3 to 5 inches high, 2 to 4 lines broad : leaves 6 to 12 lines broad : bracts acumi- 

 nate : pedicels very numerous, an inch long or less : flowers rose-color, the lanceobte 

 very narrowly long-acuminate segments 4 to 7 lines long.— ^. anceps, Laker, Bot. 

 Mag. t. 6227. 



In the high valleys of the Sierra Nevada, from near Cisco to Plumas County. 



2. MUILLA, Watson. 



Perianth subrotate, persistent, of 6 nearly equal slightly united oblong-lanceolate 

 se<.-ments, greenish or yellowish white with darker 2-nerved midveins. Stamens 

 nelr the base, with naked hliform filaments slightly thicker at base ; anthers ovate- 

 oblono-, versatile. Ovary sessile, ovate-oblong; cells 8-10-ovuled; style clavate, 

 persistent and at length splitting. Capsule globose, scarcely lobed, loculicidally de- 

 hiscent. Seeds ascending, oblong, compressed and angled, with thin dull-black 

 testa. — Scape from a fibrous-coated corm, bearing an umbel subtended by several 

 small scarious bracts; leaves very narrow, semi-terete ; pedicels not jointed ; not 

 alliaceous. A single species. — Proc. Amer. Acad. xiv. 215. 



1 M maritima, Watson, 1. c. 235. Corm small (less than a half-inch thick), 

 with thin fibro-membranous coats : leaves several, not sheathing at base, scabrous, 



