352 LILIACE^. (LILY FAMILY.) 



2. P. pudicaj 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 icith 

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

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



12. ERYTHE.ONIUM, L. Dog*s-tooth Violet. 



Stem bearing near the 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. LLOYDIA, Salisb. 



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



of the nearly filiform leaves, 



1. L. serotina, Keichenb. 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, Pnrsh. 



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-campanu- 

 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 nnrrow cauline 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 above the yellow 

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

 Rep. ii. 124. From New Mexico and Colorado to the Dakotas and California. 



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

 and a broad transverse gland: petals light lilac, yelloivish green below the middle, 

 banded and lined with purple. ^^ot. 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. 



