648 LILTACEJE chi.ofogalum 



LII.1UM 



C. pomeridianum Kunth 1. c. Bu'b oblong-ovoid, 2-4 inches in di" 

 ameter, densely covered with coarse brov\n fibres: stem and spreading 

 panicle ]-<> feet high: leaves <>— 1 S inches long, 8-10 lines wide, i-arinate, 

 glanc 'lis, the margins strongly undulate ; the cauline one or two much 

 shorter and attenuate: flowers numerous, scattered, in a much branched 

 open panicle: bracts lanceolate, 1-2 lines long, acuminate: pedicels slender, 

 6-10 lines long: segments of the perianth white with purple veins, 8-10 

 lines long, linear, opening only in the afternoon and closing over the ovary 

 in the night: capsule 8 lines high, the valves pinnately nerved: seeds 1)^-2 

 lines long. On dry ridges, southern Oregon 10 California. 



8 LILIUM L. Sp. 3u2. 



Herbs with simple leafy stems from scaly bulbs, with flat sessile 

 whorled or scattered leaves and usually large flowers in foliaceous- 

 bracted racemes or subumbellate clusters. Pedicels not jointed. 

 Perianth funnelform, of 6 distinct equal deciduous segments with 

 a nectariferous groove toward the base. Stamens 6, hiypogynous, 

 included : anthers linear to oblong, versatile, extrorse, longitu- 

 dinally dehiscent. Ovary sessile, many-ovuled. Style long, 

 clavate, deciduous: stigma 3-lobed. Capsule coriaceons, loculi- 

 cidally dehiscent, somewhat 6-angled. Seeds numerous, flat, 

 horizontal, in 2 rows in each cell, with brownish thin testa. 



* Flowers white to purplish or red : segments of the perianth with 

 long narrow claws, the tips spreading but not revolute. 



L. Washingtotiiauum Kellogg Proc. Calif, Acad, ii, 13. Bulb large, 

 somewhat rhizoraatous and oblique, 2-12 inches long, the scales imbricated, 

 lanceolate, 2-3 inches long, not jointed: stem terete, 1-7 feet high, glab- 

 rous or somewhat scabrous: leaves in several whorls of 6-18 the upper 

 and lower usually scattered, oblan/eolate, acute or acutish,3-5 inches long, 

 8-15 lines wide, more or less undulate: flowers one fo many, very fragrant, 

 white, becoming purplish with age, often finely dotted with purple, hori- 

 zontally declinate on stout nearly erect pedicels 1-1 inches long; segments 

 3-1 inches long, 3-10 lines wide, the upper third spreading: stamens a 

 little shorter, with yellow anthers 5-6 lines long: capsule obovate-oblong, 

 truncate, obtusely angled or sometimes narrowly winded, 1-1K inches 

 long. In loose soil on dry open mountain ridges, Oregon to California. 



L. rubescens Watson Proc. Am. Acad, xiv, 256. Bulb smaller, but 

 little oblique, 1-3 inches in diameter, the thick; lanceolate scales about an 

 inch long: stem stout, 1-7 feet high, smooth: leaves glabrous glnujous 

 beneath, undul»te or flat, the lower scattered the upper in 3-7 whorls, ob- 

 lanceolate, acute or acutish, 1-1 inches long, ($-L2 line-' wide: fl >wers 

 usually several, on ascending pedicels 1-3 inches long, pale lilac to white, 

 becoming rose purple, somewhat dotted with brown, segments l%-3 inches 

 long, the upper third spreading: stamens and style a third shorter : anthers 

 two to three lines long: ovary wing-angled, attenuate downward, half inch 

 long. On wooded hillsides, southern Oregon to California. 



L. Folanderi Watson 1. c. 377. Bulb small, ovoid : one to two in<hes 

 in diameter, the thick lanceolate scales 1-1% inch long: stem rather stout, 

 six inches to four feet high, one to several-flowered : leaves verticillate in 

 one to four approximate whorls, lanceolate to obovate, obtuse to acute, 

 often apiculate, glaucous beneath, one to two inches long: flowers ^uh to 

 several in a subumbellate cluster, somewhat nndd ng on erect pedi' els 1-4 

 inches long, s»gments lanceolate one to two inches long, three to six 

 lines wide, acute, dull purplish-red outride, bright red dotted Willi maroon 

 inside, the upper third spieading: stamens and style about two thiids as 





