156 



LILIACE.E Brodma. 



Frequent from Santa Barbara and Fort Tejon to Oregon ; also in the Sierra Nevada to an alti- 

 tude of 9, 000 feet. 



14. B. lactea, Watson, 1. c. Scapes usually a foot or two high, smooth or sca- 

 brous : pedicrls tow to many, slender, |- to 2 inches long : perianth wliite Avith a 

 gi-een niidvein, or sometimes purplish, 4 or 5 lines long : filaments equal, deltoid, 

 usually about a line long : anthers small, oblong, yellow or purple : capsule subglo- 

 bose, abruptly beaked by the short slender style ; stipe usually a line or two long : 

 seeds 2 to 6 (ovules 8 or 10) in each cell, a lino long. — Hesperoscordum hyacinthi- 

 num, Lindl. Bot. Reg. under t. 1293. //. ladeum, Lindl. 1. c. t. 1639; Wood, 1. c. 

 171. H. Leividi, Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. ii. 185, t. 198. Allimn ladeum, Benth. PI. 

 Hartw. 339. Veatchia crystallina, Kellogg, 1. c. ii. 11. 3Iilia hyacinthina, Baker, 

 1. c. 385. Allhim Tilingl, Kegel, All. Monogr. 124. 



Var. lilacina, Watson, 1. c. A stout form, with large flowers (5 to 7 lines long), 

 from white becuming more or less tinged with lilac. 



Frequent through California, from Monterey to British Columbia ; above Carson City (Ander- 

 son) ; Plumas County, Mrs. Austin. The variety from Mendocino and Humboldt Counties. 



5. STROPHOLIRION, Torr. 

 Perianth persistent, rose-colored, short-funuelform, contracted at the throat, the 

 6-saccate and 6-angled tube nearly equalling the spreading 1 -nerved segments. 

 Stamens 3, on the throat opposite the inner segments, alternate with 3 ligulate, 

 emarginate staminodia ; filaments very short, with a lanceolate wing each side ; 

 anthers linear-sagittate, basifixed. Ovary nearly sessile, with short persistent style ; 

 cells 4-ovuled. Capsule ovate, acuminate, on a short stipe. Seeds angled, black, 

 usually one in each cell. — Scape elongated and climbing, from a coated corm, bear- 

 ing a many-flowered umbel with jointed pedicels; leaves broadly linear. A single 

 Californian spccie>^. — Rnpalleya, Moriere. 



1. S, Californicum, Torr. Corm nearly an inch in diameter: leaves a foot 

 long or more, 4 to G lines broad, carinate : scape roughish, 2 to 4 (or even 12) feet 

 long, lax and often twining over bushes: pedicels numerous (15 to 30), slender, 

 mostly a half to an inch long : perianth 5 or 6 lines long, with oblong-lanceolate 

 segments : anthers 2 lines long, equalling the lanceolate acute wings and narrow 

 often })ubescent staminodia : capsule 4 lines long, including the style, narrowed at 

 base: seed 2 lines long. — Pacif. E. Rep. iv. 149, t. 21. Rnpalleya volubilis, 

 jSIoriere, Bull. Soc. Linn. Norm. viii. 313, & plate. Dicholestemma Californica, 

 Wood, Proc. Acad. Philad. 1868, 173. Brodkea volubilis, Baker, Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 xi. 377; Hook. f. Bot. Mag. t. 6123. 



Common in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, from Maiiposa County northward, and in the 

 valley of the Sacramento. 



6. BREVOORTIA, AVood. 

 Perianth persistent, deep scarlet, rather lu'oadly tulndar, shortly 6-saccate at the 

 truncate base, slightly constricted above, the short yellowish segments erect or 

 sometimes reflexed, faintly 1 -nerved. Stamens 3, on the throat opposite to the inner 

 segments, alternate with 3 very broad truncate corona-like staminodia ; filaments 

 verj' short, naked ; anthers narrowly oblong, basifixed, emarginate at each end. Ovary 

 stipitate, with elongated persistent style ; cells 4 - 6-ovuled. Capsule triangular- 

 ovate, acuminate. Seeds angled, black. — Scape erect, from a coated corm, bearing 

 a few-flowered umbel with jointed pedicels ; leaves linear. A single species. — Proc. 

 Philad. Acad. 1867, 82. 



