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C. Stem leaves not sheathing; racemes usually simple; perianth segments 4-8 mm. 

 long; capsule 8-12 mm. long. W. C. E. Z. venenosus (death camas) 



CC. Stem leaves usually sheathing; racemes usually panicled; perianth segments 

 2-4 mm. long; capsule 12-24 mm. long. W. C. E. Z. panlculatus 



VERATRUM (False Hellebore) 



Tall. Leaves wide, strongly veined, plicate. Flowers in a terminal 

 pubescent panicle, rather large, the lower mostly staminate only. Perianth 

 segments shnilar. Stamens free. Capsules sessile, membranous, 3-beaked 

 by the persistent diverging styles, septicidal. Seeds flat, margined or winged. 

 — (L. vere = true, ater = black ; referring to the root.) Poisonous, specially 

 the roots. 



A. Flowers green; panicle drooping; perianth segments 8-15 mm. long. W. C. E. 



— Medicinal plant. V. viride (geeen hellebore) 



AA. Flowers white; panicle erect; perianth segments 15-20 mm. long. W. C. E. 



V. califomicum (white hellebore) 



LILIACEAE (Lily Family) 



Herbs, perennial, with bulbs or corms or rarely with a rhizome, 

 stems scapose or leafy, mostly simple. Flowers perfect, regular, 

 mostly conspicuous. Perianth segments 6, distinct or united; 

 mostly alike in color and form (not in Calochortus). Stamens 6, 

 or 3 of these replaced by staminodia, on the perianth or the recep- 

 tacle. Styles none (Calochortus), or united partly or wholly. 

 Stigmas i or 3. Ovary 3-celled, superior. Fruit a capsule, 

 loculicidal (septicidal in Calochortus). 



A. Perianth segments plainly united; inflorescence with scarious bracts; leaves linear. 

 B. Plants with rhizomes; perianth salverform, white, tube very narrow, segments 

 several- veined; pedicels not jointed; anthers circinate when dry. E. — Be- 

 lieved to be poisonous to sheep. (Gk. leukos = white, krinon = a lily; the white 

 flower is lily-like.) Leucocrinum montanum (leucoceinum) 



BB. Plants with coated bulbs; perianth not salverform, mostly not white, seg- 

 ments i-veined; pedicels jointed; anthers not circinate. 

 C. Perianth funnelform, not saccate at base, various in color. 



HOOKERA (p. 58) 

 CC. Perianth broadly tubular, 6-saccate at base, deep scarlet with yellowish lobes. 

 U. C. — (Honor of J. C. Brevoort, of New York.) 



Brevoortia idamaia (Ida May's Fire Crackers) 

 AA. Perianth segments distinct, or sHghtly united at base (some species of Allium); 

 leaves various; plants from scaly or solid bulbs. 



D. Odor onion-like; flowers in a terminal umbel, on a scapose stem; inflorescence 

 subtended by a whorl of 2-5 scarious bracts which are distinct or united. 



ALLIUM (p. s6) 

 DD. Odor none or not onion-like; flowers not in umbels, or if so stems not scapose; 

 inflorescence not subtended by a whorl of scarious bracts. 



