r-,. LILIACE^. 165 



n 1 . v.nVv In-lk from Monterey to San Diego and eastward into Arizona. Y. graminifolia, 

 S,";3'teXa[e.? C^JS LnJl^^^^^ : pod IS line, l.ng, ...nsve.dy ™g>»e. 

 18. LILIUM, Linn. Lily. 

 Peri-mth deciauous, funnelform, of 6 distinct equal oblanceolate spreading or re- 

 curved segments, with a nectariferous groove toward the base, net-veined, white, 

 veUow or red, often spotted with brown. Stamens 6, hypogynous, mchided ; fila- 

 ments elongated; anthers linear to oblong, versatile, extrorse, dehiscent laterally. 

 Ovary sessile, many-ovuled; style long, clavate, deciduous; stigma 3-lobed. Cap- 

 sule coriaceous, loculicidal, erect, somewhat 6-angled. Seeds numerous, flat, hori- 

 zontal in 2 rows in each ceU, with brownish thin testa. - Stems leafy, simple, from 

 scaly bulbs; leaves narrow, sessile, whorled or scattered, net-veined; flowers large 

 and showy, solitary or racemose or subumbellate ; pedicels not jointed, with folia- 

 ceous bracts. -Baker, Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 225; Watson, Proc. Amer. Acad. 



xiv ^55 



A cTeuni of nearly 50 species, of the northern temperate zone extensively cultivated for their 



European gardens, and some of them are very handsome. 



* Floiaers spotless or only finely dotted, white or purplish or pale yellow, the 

 spreading segments with long narrow claws. 

 ^- Flowers horizontal, large. 

 1 L Washingtonianum, Kell. Bulbs large, somewhat rhizomatous and 

 obi que '(becoming 6 or 8 inches long), the thin imbiicated lanceo ate scales 2 or 3 

 Lche L^ and not jointed: stems terete, 2 to 5 feet high, glabrous or slightly 

 scabrous leaves in several whorls of 6 to 12 (the upper and lower usually scattered), 

 oblaW^^^^^^^^ or acutish, 2 to 5 inches long and 8 to 2 lines wide, more or 



less undulat; : flowers very fragrant, pure white becoming purpbsh, or often sparingly 

 4d fin ly dotted, 2 to 20 or more in a thyrsoid raceme '-^1^?^'^^^^}'^^,^ 

 stout nearly erect pedicels 1 to 4 inches long ; segments 3 or 4 inches long and 4 to 

 8 h es v de the upper third spreading : stamens a little shorter, with yellow anthers 

 5 o 6 W long ! 'ovary 7 to 10 lines long : capsule obovate-oblong, trun-te ob- 

 tusely 6-angled or sometimes narrowly winged, 15 lines long "V^.^J^' "^^^.^ p^^ * 

 Acad. ii. 13 ; also independently by Wood, Proc. Philad. Acad. 186b, 166 , Kegel, 

 Gartenfl. t. 710 ; Fl. Serres, t. 1795. , r ,u 



In the Cuyumaca Mountains, San Diego County (PaZm.r) and °? t^,';^y;;«Sr A bluS 

 Sierra Nevadl at an altitude of 3,000 to 6,000 feet northward to the Columbia Eivei. A beauti 

 ful species, growing in loose soil on ridges or lightly shaded hillsides. 



2 L. Parryi, Watson. Bulb small, somewhat rhizomatous, of numerous thick 

 jointed scales about an inch long: stem slender, glabrous, 2 to '^ /^^J^^f ;' ^ ' ^^- 

 flowered : leaves usually scattered, sometimes the lower in a whorl, Imear-oblancco 

 late, 4 to 6 inches long bv about half an inch wide, mostly acuminate : flower, pa c 

 yellow, sparingly and minutely dotted, on stout ^)edice s about an inch ^^^ ^^ 

 ments 3 inches long or more, 5 or 6 lines wide, somewhat spreadnig ;;1-^ ;;^;^ 

 tips at length recurved : stamens and style a little shorter ; anthers oblong, "^'^^^ 

 3 lines long: capsule narrowly oblong, a(;utisli, nearly 2 inches long b> line, 

 breadth. — Proc. Davenport Acad. ii. 188, t. 5, 6, and 1. c. 2o0. 



In a marsh in San Gorgonio Pass, in the Coast Ranges of San liernardino County ; first col- 

 lected by Dr. G. C. Parry in July, 1876, in flower. 



