LILY FAMILY. Liliaceae. 
There are one or two kinds of Brevoortia. 
A handsome plant, most extraordinary 
Fire-cracker both in form and color. The stem is from 
Flower : 
Brecbariae one to three feet tall, with a few grass- 
Ida-Maia like leaves, and bears a large cluster of 
wpe | six to thirteen flowers, one or two inches 
coccinea . 4 - 
Red andes long, hanging on slender, reddish pedicels, 
Sine They have bright-crimson tubes and 
Cal., Oreg. apple-green lobes, sometimes turned back, 
showing the tips of the three pale-yellow 
anthers. There are also three stamens without anthers 
and broadened so that they look like three white or yel- 
lowish petals. The buds are also crimson, tipped with 
green, and the whole color scheme is wonderfully brilliant 
and striking. This grows in mountain canyons and on 
wooded hillsides, blooming in late spring. 
There are several kinds of Muilla, much like Brodiaea 
and very much like Allium, but with no onion taste or 
smell, 
A slender little plant, sometimes rather 
Muilla Cre : 
Muilla maritima Pretty, from three to nine inches tall, with 
White sweet-scented flowers, about three-eighths 
Spring of an inch or less across, white or greenish, 
Cal., Nev. 
striped with green outside, with six, bluish, 
swinging anthers. This grows in alkaline fields, on sea 
cliffs and mesas. 
There are a good many kinds of Erythronium, all but 
one from North America, and, East and West, they are 
among our prettiest flowers. They have deep, membran- 
ous-coated, solid bulbs; a pair of netted-veined, unequal 
leaves, sometimes mottled with brown; flowers without 
bracts, large, nodding and bell-shaped, with usually six 
divisions, all colored alike, the tips turning back, each 
with a nectar-groove, and each with two or four little 
scales at base, or only the three inner divisions with scales; 
stamens on the receptacle, anthers not swinging; style 
more or less three-lobed; capsule more or less oblong and 
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