BKEVooRTrA LILlACEiE 645 



LKOCOCK1XUM 



6-8 inches Ion?, 2-3 lines wide, usually falcate: pedicels 10-20, %-2 inches 

 Ion?: perianth Uue or purplish to nearly white, 12-15 lines long, the tube 

 very narrow and longer than the segments : stamens inserted on the throat; 

 tie* nearly equal fa* laments dilated downward, the free portion 1-2 lines 

 long ; anthers linear, 2 lines long : ca] sule ovoid, -I lines long, shorter than 

 the stipe. 1 leaked by ihe verv sltndtr style: se« ds 2-3 in each cell, \% lines 

 long. On dry ridges in the Coast Mountains, southern Oregon to California. 



B. Heudersoni Watson Pioc. Am. Acad, xxiii, 266. Fcapes 6-18 

 in< hes high, smooth: leaves as long or longer than the scape. 2-6 lines 

 wide: umbel snbeapitate, few- to many-flowered : pedicels slender, 1-2 

 inches long: perianth an inch long, yellow with blue mid veins, the fun- 

 nelform tube nearly as long as the lanceolate segments: stamenH inserted 

 at the base of the tube, the filaments adnate to it and winged 1 elow, the 

 free portion slender and half as long as the segments: anthers small, oblong, 

 attached near the base: ovary subglobose, on a stipe as long as the tube of 

 the perianth, beaked by the slender style. On dry ridges, southern Oregon. 



3 BREVOORTIA Wood Proc. Philad. Acad. 1867, 82. 



Scapose herbs from coated norms, with all radical leaves and 

 showy flowers en jointed pedicels in subcapitate unbels. Peri- 

 anth persistent, broadly tubular, shoitly 6-saccate at the truncate 

 base, slightly constrided above, the short segments usually erect, 

 faintly one-nerved. St.* mens 3, inserted on the throat opposite 

 the inner sepnu nts, alternate with 3 veiy broad truncate (orona- 

 like stamir.cdia: filaments very short, naked: anthers attached 

 by the base, emarginate at each end. Ovary stipifate, with elon- 

 gated persistent style : cells 4-6-ovuled. Capsule triangular-ovate, 

 acuminate. Seeds angled, black. 



B. Ida-Maia Wood 1. c. Fcape slender, 1-3 feet high : leaves 1-2 feet 

 long or n ore. 2-4 lines wide carinate, glaucous : umbel 6-1 5- flowered : pedi- 

 cels 6-12 lints long or more: perianth \-\% inches long, dark red, the seg- 

 ments ovate, 2-3 lines long, bordered with greenish yellow : anthers oblong, 

 equalling the segments; staminrdia a half shoiter, ytllow: capsule on a 

 stipe 2-3 lines long, ovate-oblong, attenuate upward into the somewhat 

 per-istent style: seeds 2 lines long. Along the coast and in the mountains, 

 southern Oregon to California. 



4 LETJCOCKINUM Nutt. Gray Lye. N. Y. 110. (1837.) 



Low acaulescent herbs with short rootstocks, narrow leaves 

 surrounded at base by scarious bracts, and a central sessile umbel 

 of white flowers, the pedicels and ovaries underground, sheathed 

 by the floral bracts. Peruinth salverform, persistent, the seg- 

 ments several-nerved. Stamens 6: filaments filiform, inserted 

 below the throat: anthers linear, attached near the base, introrse. 

 Ovary sessile, ovate-oblong: style persistent, elongated and fili- 

 form-tubular, the orifice somewhat enlarged and slightly 3-lobed: 

 ovules several in eacli ell. Capsule triangular-obovate subcoria- 

 ceous loculh idallv dehiscent. Seeds olovate, strongly angled, 

 with a dull black testa, 



L. montauum Nutt. in herb. Gray 1. c. Leaves 8-15, flat and r.ither 

 thick, 4-s inches long, 1-3 lines wide, t lie underground pottion 1-3 inches 

 long, broad, surrounbed by scarious acutish bracts; inner bracts very 

 narrow: flowers 4-fc, on pedicels 6-18 Jines long from the summit of the 



