BHEVOpRTiA LILIACE^ 645 



LEUCOCKINDM 



6-8 inches long, 2-3 lines wide, usually falcate : pedicels 10-20, J^-2 inches 

 long: perianth blue or purplish to nearly white, 12-15 lines long, the tuhe 

 very narrow and longer than the segments : stamens inserted on the throat; 

 tlie nearly equal filaments dilated downward, the free portion 1-2 lin^s 

 long; anthers linear, 2 lines long: capsule ovoid, 4 lines loflg, shorter than 

 the stipe, beaked by the very slender style : seeds 2-3 in each cell, 1J4 lines 

 long. On dry ridges in the Coast Mountains, southern Oregon to California. 



B. Hendersoni Watson Proc. Am. Acad, xxiii, 266. Scapes 6-18 

 inches high, smooth: leaves as long or longer than the scape, 2-6 lines 

 wide : umbel subcapitate, few- to many-flowered : pedicels slender, 1-2 

 inches long: perianth an inch long, yellow with hlue mid veins, the fun- 

 nelform tube nearly as long as the lanceolate segments: stamens inserted 

 at the hase of the tube, the filaments adnate to it and winged below, the 

 free portion slender and half as long as the segments : anthers small, oblong, 

 attached near the base : ovary subglobose, on a stipe as long as the tube of 

 the perianth, beaked by the slender style. On dry ridges, southern Oregon. 



3 BEEVOORTIA Wood Proc. Philad. Acad. 1867, 82. 



Scapose herbs from coated corms, with all radical leaves and 

 showy flowers on jointed pedicels in subcapitate unbels. Peri- 

 anth persistent, broadly tubular, shortly 6-saccate at the truncate 

 base, slightly constricted above, the short segments usually erect, 

 faintly one-nerved. Stamens 3, inserted on the throat opposite 

 the inner segments, alternate with 3 very broad truncate corona- 

 like staminodia: filaments very short, naked: anthers attached 

 by the base, emarginate at each end. Ovary stipitate, with elon- 

 gated persistent style : cells 4-6-ovuled. Capsule triangular-ovate, 

 acuminate. Seeds angled, black. 



B. Ida-Maia Wood 1. c. Fcape slender, 1-3 feet high : leaves 1-2 feet 

 long or n ore, 2-4 lines wide carinate, glaucous: umbel 6-15-flowered : pedi- 

 cels 6-12 lines long or more: perianth 1-1^ inches long, dark red, the seg- 

 ments ovate, 2-3 lines long, bordered with greenish yellow : anthers oblong, 

 equalling the segments; staminodia a half shorter, yellow: capsule on a 

 sti]^e 2-3 lines long, ovate-oblong, attenuate upward Into the somewhat 

 per><istent style : seeds 2 lines long. Along the coast and in the mountains, 

 southern Oregon to California. 



4 LEUCOCRINUM Nutt. Gray Lye. N. Y. 110. (1837.) 



Low acaulescent herbs with short rootstocks, narrow leaves 

 surrounded at base by scarious bracts, and a central sessile umbel 

 of white flowers, the pedicels and ovaries underground, sheathed 

 by the floral bracts. Perianth salverform, persistent, the seg- 

 ments several- nerved. Stamens 6: filaments filiform, inserted 

 below the throat : anthers linear, attached near the base, introrse. 

 Ovary sessile, ovate-oblong: style persistent, elongated and fili- 

 form-tubular, the orifice somewhat enlarged and slightly 3-lobed: 

 ovules several in each cell. Capsule triangular-obovate subcoria- 

 ceous loeulicidallv dehiscent. Seeds obovate, strongly angled, 

 with a dull black testa. 



L. montannm Nutt. in herb. Gray 1. c. Leaves 8-15, flat and rather 

 thick, 4-8 inches long, 1-3 lines wide, the underground portion 1-3 inches 

 long, broad, surrounbed by scarious acutish bracts ;, inner .bracts very 

 narrow: flowers 4-8, on pedicels 6-18 lines long from the summit of the 



