WILD FLOWERS OF CALIFORNIA 131 



1781. Lilium parvum 



Sierra Nevada. Orange-yellow spotted with purple, Mowers 2-28 or more 

 on a stalk. It grows in nearly all springy places up to 7,000 feet. 



1782. Lemon Lily Lilium Parryi 



Rootstock not branched. Flowers clear lemon-yellow. Southern Cali- 

 fornia mountains. 



1783. Coast Lily Lilium maritimum 



Leaves alternate; rarely whorled. Flowers 1-5 dark red. Low, coast 

 meadows Marin County, northward. 



1784. Chaparral Lily Lilium rubescens 

 Chamise Lily 



Redwood Lily 

 Stems 2-5 feet high. Flowers nearly white, dotted with brown, aging to 

 rose-purple. Chaparral slopes in mountains Marin County to Howe Mt., 

 northward. 



1785. Lilium Humboldtii 



Stems 3-5 feet high very stout. Flowers large, orange-red, spotted with 

 maroon. Open woods, lower yellow pine belt of Sierra Nevada. 



1786. Washington Lily Lilium Washingtonianum 

 Shasta Lily 



Stems 4-6 feet tall. Flowers pure white, among the chaparral, Sierra Ne- 

 vada. Upper pine forests or thickets. 



1787. Lilium Columbianum 



In Sierra Nevada and of northerly distribution. Flowers bright reddish 

 orange. Stems slender, 2-4 feet or more high. 



1788. Camass Camassia esculenta 

 Quamash 



Wet meadows Santa Rosa Valley northward to Washington. Flowers 

 dark blue or nearly white. 



1789. Camassia leiehtlinii 



In Sierra Nevada. Ukiah and northward to Washington. Flowers blue 

 to white. Bulbs formerly much eaten by the Indians who boiled them or 

 roasted them in pits. 



1790. Soap plant "Amole" Chlorogalum posneridianum 



Throughout California. Plant 2-5 feet high. Flowers white, purple veined. 

 Opens in the afternoon only. Bulbs employed by the Indians for washing and 

 as food. They cook them in pits with California grape leaves. 



1791. Chlorogalum angustifolium 



Lower San Joaquin and northward. Flowers white with yellowish green 

 lines. 



1792. Star Zygadenus Zygandenus Fremontii 

 Black Grass Nut 



Common and variable. Coast Range hillsides among bushes. 



1793. Death Camass Zygadenus venenosus 



Hog's Potato 



Lobelia (Nevada) 



Mystery Grass 

 Grows in meadows near the coast from Monterey northward. Also Found 

 in the Sierra Nevada. It is a dangerous enemy of the stock man. It poisons 

 sheep that eat the plant. When young its leaves are hard to distinguish from 

 the grass among which it grows. Both leaves ;.nd bulbs are poisonous. H 

 eat the bulbs and are immune 



