LILY FAMILY. 95 



Scales jointed; flowers red or orange. 



Flowers with strongly revolute segments ("Turk's Cap" type)....l. L. pardolinum. 

 Flowers funnelform, the upper third of the segments recurving 2. L. maritimum. 



Scales not jointed; flowers funnelform, white, aging reddish 3. L. rubescens. 



1. L. pardalinum Kell. Tiger Lily. Stems 3 to 6 ft. high; rootstock thick 

 and fleshy, closely covered with 2 or 3-jointed closely overlapping scales, 

 branching and eventually forming large mat-like clusters; leaves in whorls 

 or alternate, linear-lanceolate; flowers 1 to many, racemose or the lower in 

 whorls, on long spreading pedicels; segments 2 to 3 in. long, 6 to 9 lines 

 wide, strongly revolute, bright orange-red with a lighter orange center 

 and large purple spots on the lower half; capsule narrowly oblong, acutely 

 angled, 1% in. long. 



Stream banks and wet meadows: Coast Ranges, near the sea or in high mts. ; 

 Sierra Nevada, 3000 to 4000 ft. Also called Leopard Lily. June-Aug. 



L. PARVUM Kell. Rootstock like preceding but not branching; scales 3 or 

 4-jointed; flowers small (1 to 1% in. long), funnelform, only the tips of 

 the segments spreading. — Sierra Nevada, 6000 to 9000 ft., in wet places 

 along streams or edges of swamps. 



L. parryi Wats. Lemon Lily. Rootstock not branched; flow r ers clear lemon 

 yellow. — Southern California mts. 



2. maritimum Kell. Coast Lily. Stems 1 to 4 ft. high with alternate 

 or rarely whorled leaves; bulb rhizomatous; leaves narrowly oblanceolate or 

 linear, 1 to 5 in. long and 3 to 7 lines wide; flowers 1 to 5, dark red, funnel- 

 form, horizontal on long pedicels; segments spotted within with purple, 1^4 

 to \y-2 in. long, the upper % somewhat recurved; stamens less than 1 in. 

 long, exceeding the style ; capsule said to be long and narrow. 



Low meadows near the coast from Marin Co., northward to Ten Mile River, 

 Mendocino Co. 



3. L. rubescens "Wats. Chaparral Lily. Stems 2 to 5 ft. high; bulbs 

 rhizomatous, the scales not jointed; leaves broadly oblanceolate or obovate, 

 mostly acute, 5 to 10 in a whorl, or the lower scattered; flowers several 

 on ascending pedicels 1 to 3 in. long, nearly white, somewhat dotted with 

 brown, aging to rose-purple; segments 1% or 2 in. long, the upper % revolute; 

 capsule obovoid with subtruncate apex and abruptly short attenuate base, 

 wing-angled, 1% in. long. 



Chaparral slopes in the mountains from Marin Co. to Howell Mt. and north- 

 ward. Near the coast called Redwood Lily; towards the interior Chaparral 

 or ( liamise Lily. 



L. humboldtii R. & L. Stems 3 to 5 ft. high, very stout; bulb large, ovoid, 

 more or less oblique, its scales not jointed; flowers large, orange-red, spotted 

 with small maroon spots, the segments strongly recurving. — Open woods in lower 

 Yellow Pine belt of Sierra Nevada north of Yosemite, 3000 to 4000 ft. 

 Bulb-scales possessing a remarkably bitter principle. 



L. WASHINGTONIANUM Kell. Washington Lily. Stems 4 to 6 ft. tall, the 

 bulb ovate, scales not jointed; flowers pure white, purple-dotted, aging pur- 

 plish, very fragrant, tubular-campanulate, the segments spreading above, not 

 approximate in tube.— Sierra Nevada, 3000 to 6000 ft., in tin' upper pine 



in thickets. Shasta Lily is a variety with a small bulb. 



3. ERYTHRONIUM L. 

 Low herbs with short simple scape-like stems from deep-seated membranous- 

 coated conns. Leaves 2, radical or nearly so. Plants before coming into 



