648 LILIACEiE chlokogaldm 



LILIDM 



C. pomeridiannm Kunth 1. c. Bulb oblong-ovoid, 2-4 inches in di" 

 ameter, densely covered with coarse brown fibres : stem and spreading 

 panicle 1-6 feet high : leaves 6-18 inches long, 3-10 lines wide, carinate, 

 glaucous, the margins strongly undulate ; the cauline one or two much 

 shorter and attenuate : flowers numerous, scattered, in a much branched 

 open panicle : bracts lanceolate, 1-2 lines long, acuminate : pedicels slender, 

 6-10 lines long: segments of the perianth white with purple veins, 8-10 

 lines long, linear, opening only in the afternoon and closing over the ovary 

 in the night : capsule 3 lines high, the valves pinnatfly nerved : seeds 1^-2 

 lines long. On dry ridges, southern Oregon to California. 



8 LILIUM L. Sp. 302. 



Herbs with simple leafy stems from scaly bulbs, with flat sessile 

 whorled or scattered leaves and usually large flowers in foliaceous- 

 bracted racemes or subumbellate clusters. Pedicels not jointed. 

 Perianth funnelform, of 6 distinct equal deciduous segments with 

 a nectariferous groove toward the base. Stamens 6, hypogynous, 

 included : anthers linear to oblong, versatile, extrorse, longitu- 

 dinally dehiscent. Ovary sessile, many-ovuled. Style long, 

 clavate, deciduous: stigma 3-lobed. Capsule coriaceous, loculi- 

 cidally dehiscent, somewhat 6-angled. Seeds numerous, flat, 

 horizontal, in 2 rows in each cell, with brownish thin testa. 



* Flowers white to purplish or red : segments of the perianth with 

 long narrow claws, the tips spreading but not revolute. 



L. Washingtonianum Kellogg Proc. Calif, Acad, ii, 13. Bulb large, 

 somewhat rhizomatous and oblique, 2-12 inches long, the scales irnbricated, 

 lanceolate, 2-3 inches long, not jointed: stem terete, 1-7 feet high, glab- 

 rous or somewhat scabrous : leaves in several whorls of 6-18. the upper 

 and lower uiually scattered, oblanceolate, acute or acutish,3-5 inches long, 

 8-15 lines wide, more or less undulate : flowers one to .many, very fragrant, 

 white, becoming purplish with age, often finely dotted with purple, hori- 

 zontally declinate on stout nearly erect pedicels 1-4 inches long ; segments 

 3-4 inches long, 3-10 lines wide, the upper third spreading; stamens a 

 little shorter, with yellow anthers 5-6 lines long : capsule obovate-oblong, . 

 truncate, obtusely angled or sometimes narrowly winged, 1-1)^ inches 

 long. In loose soil on dry open mountain ridges, Oregon to California. 



L. rubescens "Watson Proc. Am. Acad, xiv, 256. Bulb smaller, but 

 little oblique, 1-3 inches in diametet', the thick lanceolate scales about an 

 inch long: stem stout, 1-7 feet high, smooth: leaves glabrous, glaucous 

 beneath, undulate or flat, the lower scattered the upper in 3-7 whorls, ob- 

 lanceolate, acute or acutlsh, 1-4 inches long, 6-12 lines wide: flowers 

 usually several, on ascending pedicels 1-3 inches long, pale lilac to white, 

 becoming rose-purple, somewhat dotted with brown, segments l%-3 inches 

 long, the upper third spreading : stamens and style a third shorter : anthers 

 two to three lines long : ovary wing -angled, attenuate downward, half inch 

 long. On wooded hillsides, southern Oregon to California. 



L. Bolanderi Watson 1. c. 377. Bulb small, ovoid, one to two inches 

 in diameter, the thick lanceolate scales 1-1% inch long: stem rather stout, 

 six inches to four feet high, onf- to several-flowered : leaves verticillate in 

 one to four approximate whorls, lanceolate to obovate, obtuse to acute, 

 often apiculate, glaucous beneath, one to two inches long: flowers one to 

 several in a subumbellate cluster, somewhat nodding on erect pedicels 1-4 

 inches long, segments lanceolate, one to two inches long, three to six 

 lines wide, acute, dull purplish-red outside, bright red dotted with maroon 

 inside, the upper third spreading : stamens and style alDout two thirds as 



