652 LILIACE^E erythronium 



Near the coast, Vancouver Island to Oregon. E. Johnsoni Bolander Eryth. 

 iii, 127, appears to be a pink-flowered form of this species. 



E. gigantenm Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1786. Scape 6-18 inches high, 1-6- 

 flowered: leaves broadly lanceolate, or in poorly developed specimens 

 narrower, green mottled with brown and white, 4-6 inches long, mostly 

 acute and shortly apiculate, rather abruptly narrowed below to a short and 

 broadly margined petiole : outer segments of the perianth lanceolate, acu- 

 minate, 1^-2 inches long, 4-6 lines wide; inner ones a little wider and 

 more acuminate, all cream-color marked with yellow and orange near the 

 base, strongly revolute ; the inner ones auricled and 4- toothed at base : 

 style clavate, about as long as the stamens, the stigmas distinct and at 

 length strongly revolute. On stony ridges, western Washington to Calif. 



E. montauum Watson Proc. Am. Acad, xxvi, 130. Scape slender, 

 6-18 inches high, 1-3-flowered : leaves broadly lanceolate to almost ovate, 

 more or less abruptly contracted at base into a winged petiole, the blade 

 2-4 inches long, pale green, not mottled : segments of the perianth pure 

 white with orange base, often turning pinkish in age, 1-1;% inches long, 

 broadly lanceolate, slenderly acuminate, the inner ones with small teeth 

 at base: style clavate, much longer than the stamens ; the stigmas distinct 

 and at length spreading. On grassy slopes in the highest parts of the 

 Cascade Mountains in Oregon and Washington. 



E. citrinum Watson Proc. Am. Acad, xxii, 480. Corm oblong, 1-2 

 inches long, 4-6 lines in diameter; scape rather stout, 6-10 inches high, 

 1-9-flowered, the flowers approximate and all opening at near the same 

 time : leaves very broadly lanceolate, 4-6 lines long, obtuse and very shorty 

 apiculate, attenuate at base to a very short petiole, the margins more or 

 less undulate, green markeed with dark brown and white : segments of the 

 perianth broadly lanceolate, obtuse, 12-15 lines long, bright lemon-color 

 with orange base, the tips drying pinkish, strongly revolute, the teeth at 

 the base of the inner ones thin: filaments not dilated downward: style 

 rather thick shorter than or barely equalling the stamens : the stigmas 

 coalescent by the edges : capsule, an inch long, very obtuse. On dry ridges 

 in pine woods, near Deer Creek southern Oregon. 



E. Hendersoni Watson 1. c. 479. Scape slender, 6-12 inches high, 

 1-3-flowered : leaves lanceolate to oblong, obtuse and very shortly apiculate, 

 narrowed below to a short petiole, the blade 3-6 inches long, green mottled 

 with white and brown : segments of the perianth lanceolate, obtuse, 12-18 

 lines long, purple with very dark base bordered above with yellow ; the 

 inner ones auricled above the very short claw, the auricles fleshy and sub- 

 saccate, the 2 scales subglobose-inflated: filaments purple, very slender 

 and attenuate upward, thrice longer than the brownish anthers : style 

 narrowly clavate, shorter than or about equalling the stamens, the trian- 

 gular cupulate stigma very shortly 3-lobed. Common in the Rogue river 

 valley, southern Oregon. 



E. Hotvelliii Watson 1. c. 480, Scape rather slender, 6-18 inches high, 

 1-3-flowered : leaves oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate, 3-6 inches long, an 

 inch or less wide usually acute and shortly apiculate, green mottled with 

 white and brown : segments of the perianth lanceolate, 18 lines long, straw- 

 color to white'with orange base, often drying pinkish : the inner narrowed 

 downward, without auricles or scales : stamens white, the filaments very 

 slender : style slightly clavate, shorter than the stamens ; the cupulate 

 stigma faintly 3-lobed. In dry open woods near Waldo southern Oregon. 



12 CALOCHORTUS Pursh El. 240. 



Perennial herbs from coated corms, simple or branched leafy 

 stems,' Hnear leaves, the radical in our species solitary, and large 



