
LILY FAMILY. Liliaceae. 
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Lilies, the “‘lords of gardens,’’ are perhaps the most 
beautiful and popular flowers everywhere and there are 
some wonderful ones in the West. They have tall, smooth, 
leafy stems, springing from scaly bulbs; large showy flowers, 
solitary or in terminal clusters; smooth, netted-veined 
leaves, often in whorls, and leaflike bracts. The flower- 
cup is funnel-formed, or bell-shaped, and has six, equal, 
spreading divisions, with a honey-bearing groove at the 
base of each; the stamens, with long anthers, swinging from 
the tips of long filaments; a long pistil, with a three-lobed 
stigma and the capsule oblong, with two rows of flat seeds 
in each of its cells. There are no true Lilies in Utah. 
These tall plants carry a brilliant crown 
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‘eam peru Of small lilies, glowing like jewels in the 
Lilium parvum 
Orange-red dark moist woods they love. The stem is 
Summer from one and a half to six feet high, cov- 
Cal., Oreg. 
ered with a slight down that rubs off, and 
springs from a small bulb with short, thick scales. The 
long, pointed, rich-green leaves are in whorls of five or six 
below, more scattered towards the top of the stalk. The 
flowers are rather more than an inch long, yellow at the 
base of the petals, shading through orange to vermilion at 
the tips and dotted with crimson in the throat. Usually 
there are six or seven in a cluster, but they have been found 
with many more in favorable situations and single plants 
in Yosemite have been’ seen with as many as thirty blos- 
soms. The capsule is roundish and less than an inch long, 
These little Lilies are among the most attractive of their 
kind and grow somewhat freely in the high Sierras to an 
altitude of seven thousand feet and as far north as Oregon. 
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