LILY FAMILY. Llliaceae. 



There are one or two kinds of Brevoortia. 



A handsome plant, most extraordinary 



Brevoortia one ^ three ^ ee ^ tall, with a few graSS- 



Ida-Maia like leaves, and bears a large cluster of 



(Brodiaea six to thirteen flowers, one or two inches 



long, hanging on slender, reddish pedicels. 

 Spring They have bright-crimson tubes and 



Cal., Oreg. apple-green lobes, sometimes turned back, 



showing the tips of the three pale-yellow 

 anthers. There are also three stamens without anthers 

 and broadened so that they look like three white or yel- 

 lowish petals. The buds are also crimson, tipped with 

 green, and the whole color scheme is wonderfully brilliant 

 and striking. This grows in mountain canyons and on 

 wooded hillsides, blooming in late spring. 



There are several kinds of Muilla, much like Brodiaea 

 and very much like Allium, but with no onion taste or 

 smell. 



A slender little plant, sometimes rather 

 Muilla marUima P rett y, f rom three to nine inches tall, with 

 White sweet-scented flowers, about three-eighths 



Spring of an inch or less across, white or greenish, 



Cal., Nev. striped with green outside, with six, bluish, 



swinging anthers. This grows in alkaline fields, on sea 

 cliffs and mesas. 



There are a good many kinds of Erythronium, all but 

 one from North America, and, East and West, they are 

 among our prettiest flowers. They have deep, membran- 

 ous-coated, solid bulbs; a pair of netted- veined, unequal 

 leaves, sometimes mottled with brown; flowers without 

 bracts, large, nodding and bell-shaped, with usually six 

 divisions, all colored alike, the tips turning back, each 

 with a nectar-groove, and each with two or four little 

 scales at base, or only the three inner divisions with scales; 

 stamens on the receptacle, anthers not swinging; style 

 more or less three-lobed, capsule more or less oblong and 



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