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LILIACE-flS. 



many, racemose or the lower in whorls, on long spreading pedicels; 

 segments 2 to 3 in. long, 6 to 9 lines wide, strongly revolute, bright 

 orange-red with a lighter orange center and large purple spots on the 

 lower half; capsule narrowly oblong, acutely angled, 1£ in. long. 



Stream banks and wet meadows of the Coast Ranges toward the 

 sea and in the Sierra Nevada. June-Aug. 



2. L. maritimum Kell. Coast Lily. Bulb conical, 1 to in. 

 in diameter; stems 1 to 4 ft. high with alternate or rarely whorled 

 leaves; these narrowly oblanceolate or linear, 1 to 5 in. long and 3 to 

 7 lines wide; flowers 1 to 5, horizontal on long pedicels; segments 

 deep reddish-orange, spotted within with purple, 1^ to 1£ in. long, 

 the upper ^ somewhat recurved; stamens less than 1 in. long, exceed- 

 ing the style; capsule said to be long and narrow. 



Low meadows near the coast from Marin Co., northward to 

 Humboldt Co. 



3. L. rubescens Wats. Bulbs rhizomatous, 2 in. in diameter; 

 stem 2 to 5 ft. high; lower leaves scattered, the upper in 3 to 7 

 whorls; flowers several on ascending pedicels 1 to 3 in. long, nearly 

 white, somewhat dotted with brown, ageing to rose-purple; segments 

 1^ or 2 in. long, the upper ^ revolute; capsule obovoid with sub- 

 truncate apex and abruptly short attenuate base, wing-angled, If in. 

 long. 



Wooded slopes in the mountains from Marin Co., to Howell 

 Mountain, Napa Co., and northward. Near the coast called Red- 

 wood Lily; towards the interior Chaparral Lily. 



3. ERYTHRONIUM L. 



Low herbs from deep-seated membranous-coated corms and simple 

 stems with the leaves radical or borne below the middle, or in plants 

 flowerless in a given season there is but one broad long-petioled 

 leaf. Flowers large, solitary or several and racemose; perianth seg- 

 ments distinct with longitudinal nectar-bearing groove and 2 or 4 

 scale-like processes at base, or only the inner segments so provided. 

 Stamens 6, hypogynous, shorter than the perianth. Style 3-lobed or 

 -cleft; stigmas 3. Capsule somewhat 3-angled, loculicidal. (Derived 

 from the Greek eruthros, red, in allusion to the color of the flowers 

 in some species.) 



1. E. grandiflorum Pursh. Scapes 5 to 9 in. high, 1 to 3 or even 

 4 or 5 flowered; leaves mostly 2, oblong, obtuse, 4 to 6 in. long, 1 to 

 1^ in. wide; flowers nodding, from white to pale lemon-yellow, the 

 bases of the segments orange; segments broadly oblong, tapering from 

 the middle or below the middle to base and apex, 1} in. to 1£ in. 

 long, 5 to 7 lines wide; inner segments longitudinally 2-channeled on 

 back; stamens 5 lines long; capsule obovoid, 1 in. long. 



Cloverdale (where it is very abundant and called "Easter Lily," 

 Setchell) and northward. Mar. 



4. CALOCHORTUS Pursh. Mariposa Lily. 

 Stems from membranous-coated corms, with few narrow radical or 



