108 LlLlACfiAE. 



anoustipetalum Torr. Petals oarrowly linear.— Sierra Nevada; San Luis 

 ( >bispo. 



2. T. ovatum Pursh. (oast Trillium. Stem 8 or 10 in. high; leaves 

 ovate in round, Bometimes disposed to be rhombic, abruptly acute, 2\<> to ■">'•_> 

 in. long; peduncle erect; petals oblong-laneeolate to ovate, 1 to l 1 /. in. long, 

 white changing to deep rose-color; sepals of about the same shape and size 

 or narrower; stamens 3 to 6 lines long; capsule broadly ovate, the angles 

 projected into narrow wings. 



Woods near the coast: Santa Cruz to Mt. Tamalpais. Napa Valley and 

 northward. Mar. -Apr. 



17. SCOLIOPUS Torr. 



Acaulescent, the very short subterranean stem bearing a pair of broad leaves 

 and an umbel of greenish purple flowers, the peduncle of which is almost 

 obsolete, the sharply angular pedicels (which look like scapes) alone appear- 

 ing above ground. Perianth-segments narrow. Stamens 3, opposite the sepals, 

 short, with greenish extrorse anthers. Ovary 1-celled; style short, its 3 long 

 branches abruptly spreading horizontally, or the tip recurving. Capsule with 

 a membranous wall which bursts irregularly. (Greek skolios, crooked, and pons, 

 foot, in allusion to the tortuous pedicels.) 



1. S. bigelovii Torr. Leaves elliptic to oblong, commonly mottled with 

 dark splotches, 4 to 8 in. long, sheathing at base; flowers with a fetid odor 

 and having something the appearance of orchids; pedicels 4 to 9 in. long, 

 3 -angled, slightly winged, erect in fruit, tortuous recurving or procumbent, 

 the maturing capsule more or less hidden by forest litter; sepals ovate-lance- 

 olate, 7 to 9 lines long, with 10 or 12 black veins, somewhat carinate toward 

 the base, the upper % abruptly spreading or recurved ; petals linear-subulate, 

 as long as the sepals, hardly 1 line wide, ascending at base and with their 

 long points convergent, forming an arch above the pistil; stamens 2i/. or ."> 

 lines long. 



Shade of the Redwood forest, Marin to Humboldt. .Jan. -.Mar. 



18. CLINTONIA Eaf. 



Apparently acaulescent, the stem from a creeping rootstock, very short and 

 bearing at or from beneath the ground few broad leaves and a scape-like 

 peduncle. Flowers few to many in a terminal umbel or with 1 to several 

 small supplementary clusters scattered along the peduncle. Perianth resembling 

 a very small lily lower, campanulate, of 6 distinct deciduous segments. 

 Stamens (5, with filiform filaments, inserted on the base of the segments; 

 anthers fixed just above the base, extrorse. Ovary 2 to 3-celled; ovules 2 to 3 

 in each cell; style slender, slightly 2 to 3-lobed, deciduous. Fruit a smooth 

 ovoid berry. (De Witt Clinton of New York.) 



1. C. andrewsianaTorr. Leaves commonly 5, sometimes 6, narrowly or 

 broadly oblong, rather abruptly short-pointed, 7 to 13 in. long, 2 to 4'_. 

 in. broad; peduncle L5 to 20 in. high, bearing a terminal umbel of many 

 flowers and with 2 to I supplementary clusters borne laterally, the lateral 



clusters 1 to 9-flowered or rarely none; flowers 5 to 8 lines long, rose-red, or 

 pink; filaments Blightly pubescenl below the middle; fruit indigo blue. 

 Shady woods near the coast: Santa Cruz Mts. to Cazadero, Westport and 



Humboldt Co. The berries suggest small-sized old fashioned blueing balls. 



< '. i \iii.<ik\ Kniitli. Bride's Bonnet. Flowers l or 2. white, % in. long. — 

 sierra Nevada. 



