LILY FAMILY. Liliaceae. 



Lilies, the "lords of gardens," are perhaps the most 

 beautiful and popular flowers everywhere and there are 

 some wonderful ones in the West. They have tall, smooth, 

 leafy stems, springing from scaly bulbs; large showy flowers, 

 solitary or in terminal clusters; smooth, netted- veined 

 leaves, often in whorls, and leaflike bracts. The flower- 

 cup is funnel-formed, or bell-shaped, and has six, equal, 

 spreading divisions, with a honey-bearing groove at the 

 base of each; the stamens, with long anthers, swinging from 

 the tips of long filaments; a long pistil, with a three-lobed 

 stigma and the capsule oblong, with two rows of flat seeds 

 in each of its cells. There are no true Lilies in Utah. 

 Small Tiger Lily These tal1 plants carry a brilliant crown 

 Lilium pdrvum of sma11 lilies glowing like jewels in the 

 Orange-red dark moist woods they love. The stem is 



Summer from one and a half to six feet high, cov- 



Cal., Oreg. own 



springs from a small bulb with short, thick scales. The 

 long, pointed, rich-green leaves are in whorls of five or six 

 below, more scattered towards the top of the stalk. The 

 flowers are rather more than an inch long, yellow at the 

 base of the petals, shading through orange to vermilion at 

 the tips and dotted with crimson in the throat. Usually 

 there are six or seven in a cluster, but they have been found 

 with many more in favorable situations and single plants 

 in Yosemite have been seen with as many as thirty blos- 

 soms. The capsule is roundish and less than an inch long. 

 These little Lilies are among the most attractive of their 

 kind and grow somewhat freely in the high Sierras to an 

 altitude of seven thousand feet and as far north as Oregon. 



