166 



LILIACE^E. Lilium. 



4_ ^_ Flowers erect or ascending, smaller. 



3. L. rubescens, Watson. Bulb as in L. Washingtoniammi, but nuicli smaller 

 (about 2 inches in iliameter), the thick broadly lanceolate scales an inch long : stem 

 usually stout, 1 to 7 feet hi<>h, smooth : leaves glabrous, glaucous beneath, undulate 

 or flat, the lower scattered, the upper in 3 to 7 whorls, oblanceolate, acute or acutish, 

 1 to 4 inches long and 6 to 1 2 lines wide : flowers usually several, on ascending 

 pedicels 1 to 3 inches long, pale lilac or nearly white, becoming rose-purple, some- 

 what dotted Avith brown ; segments 1| or 2 inches long, the upper third revolute : 

 stamens and style a third shorter ; anthers 2 or 3 lines long : ovary wing-angled, 

 attenuate downward, half an inch long. — Proc. Amer. Acad. xiv. 256. L. Wash- 

 ingtoniamim, viiv. pui'pureum, Masters, Gard. Chron. 2 ser. ii. 322, fig. 67; Elwes, 

 same, vi. 242 ; Baker, 1. c. 233. 



On wooded hillsides in the Coast Kanges, from Marin (Bolandcr) to Humboldt Counties, Eattan. 



* * Flowers orange-yelloia or reddish, mostly consjjicuoiisli/ sjwtted: segments 



oblanceolate. 



-)- Flowers erect or horizontal, small. 



4. L. parvum, Kell. Bulbs small, of short thick jointed scales a half-inch to 

 an inch long, upon a branching rhizome : stem slender, 1|^ to 6 feet high or more : 

 leaves scattered or in whorls, 2 to 5 inches long and an inch broad or less, sometimes 

 linear, acute or acuminate : flowers 2 to very many (30 to 50), erect or nearly so on 

 slender suberect pedicels 2 to 4 inches long, scattered or somewhat verticillate, yel- 

 low or orange Avithin and usually spotted with purple, reddish above ; segments nar- 

 rowly oblanceolate, 1 to H inches long, more or less spreading or the tips recurved, 

 pubescent toward the apex : stamens an inch long, nearly or quite equalling the 

 style ; anthers oblong, 1 or 2 lines long : capsule subspherical, 6 to 9 lines long, 

 truncate above. — Proc. Calif. Acad. ii. 179, fig. 12; Kegel, Gartenfl. 1872, 163, 

 t. 725 ; Elwes, Monogr. Lil. t. 24. L. Canadense, var. Walkeri, Wood, 1. c. 166. 

 L. Canadense, var. parvum, Baker, 1. c. 241 ; Hook. f. Bot. Mag. t. 6146. 



In the Sierra Nevada at an elevation of 4,000 to 8,000 feet, and northward into Oregon. 

 Distinguished from L. Columhicmum by the different bulb, and by the smaller less nodding 

 flowers, their segments less recurved. 



5. L. maritimum, Kell. Bulb conical, 1 to 1| inches in diameter, with close- 

 pressed scales : stem a foot or two high or more, slender : leaves scattered or very 

 rarely somewhat verticillate, narrowly oblanceolate or linear, 1 to 5 inches long and 

 3 to 6 lines wide, obtuse : flowers 1 to 5, on long peduncles, horizontal, deep reddish 

 orange, spotted within with purple; segments lanceolate, 15 to 18 lines long, the 

 upper third somewhat recurved : stamens scarcely an inch long, exceeding the style, 

 with oblong anthers 2 lines long : " capsules long and narrow." — Proc. Calif. Acad. 

 vi. 140. L. Canadense, ydiX. parvifiorum, Bolander, same, v. 206. 



Near the coast, in low black peaty meadows, from San Francisco to Humboldt County {Kellogg 

 & Harford, n. 997) ; Albion and Noyo swamps {Bolander, n. 4827, 6557) ; flowering from May to 

 August. According to Bolander, it grows when in sheltered situations to a height of 3 to 5 feet, 

 bearing numerous flowers. 



-1- H— Flowers nodding, larger, nuth revolute segments. 



++ Bulbs rhizomatous. 



6. L, pardalinum, Kellogg. Rhizomes thick and branching, forming mat-like 

 masses of roundish oblate bulbs, the scales jointed near the base : stems 3 to 7 feet 

 high : leaves usually in 3 or 4 whorls of 9 to 15, scattered above and below, nar- 

 rowly lanceolate and sharply acuminate, 3 to 7 inches long and 9 to 12 lines broad, 

 deep green, thin and faintly 3-nerved, glabrous and glaucous, as also the stem : 

 flowers few to many, racemose or the lower in Avhorls, on long spreading pedicels ; 

 segments 2 or 3 inclies long and 6 to 9 lines wide, lanceolate, strongly revolute, 



