LILY FAMILY. 



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cauline leaves and showy white, yellow, lilac or bluish-tinged flowers 

 borne terminally on the stem or branches or in an umbellate fascicle. 

 Perianth deciduous, the segments distinct and more or less concave. 

 Sepals lanceolate, greenish or sometimes colored. Petals for the most 

 part broadly cuneate-obovate and usually with a conspicuous gland 

 or pit near the base. Stamens 6, on the base of the segments. Ovary 

 triquetrous; stigmas sessile, recurved, persistent. Capsule elliptical or 

 oblong, membranaceous, 3-angled or -winged, commonly septicidally 

 dehiscent. Seeds numerous, in 2 rows in each cell, somewhat flat- 

 tened. (Greek kalos, beautiful, and chortos, grass, in allusion to the 

 flowers and grass-like leaves.) 



Flowers and capsule erect, the former open campanulate; gland densely hairy; 

 stem bearing bulblets at base; radical leaves usually a pair, channeled, 

 linear.— Mariposa Liliks. 

 Petals mostly white or lilac, with an eye-spot; gland round; capsule linear or 



linear-clavate . . 1. C. venustus. 



Petals clear lilac; gland small, round and densely hairy, or absent; capsule 



linear 2. C. splendens. 



Petals yellow, usually without eye-spot; gland lunate; capsule attenuate from 



a broad base 3. C. lutem. 



Flowers erect or ascending, campanulnte; petals with a transverse scale cover- 

 ing upper portion of gland; capsule nodding; stem low, bulblet-be iring in 

 none of the following except the first; the radical leaf long and conspicuous, 

 surpassing the inflorescence. — Star Tulips. 

 Petals lilac, glabrous or nearly so; stem bulblet-bearing at base; open wet 



meadows ." 4. C. uniflorus. 



Petals white with scant hairs on lower third; woodland plants . . ' . 



5. C. umbeliatus. 



Petals white or purplish-blue, covered with long erect hairs. . 6. C. Maweanus. 

 Flowers and capsules nodding; petals strongly incurved or arched, the gland 

 transver-ely crested or hairy; capsule ellipticnl or broadly oblong, deeply 

 triquetrous, the lobes thin, acute or winged.— Globe Tulips. 

 Petals white; gland lunate, with 4 transverse imbricate scales fringed with 



short glandular hairs . . 7. C. albus. 



Petals light yellow; gland bordered with stiff hair- which cross each other . . 



8. C. pvlchellxis. 



1. C. venustus Dougl. White Mariposa Lily. Stem erect, 

 stiff, usually branching, 4 to 10 in. high, 1 to 4-flowered; bulblet at 

 base usually 1; radical leaves 1 or 2, linear, 1 to 3 lines wide, very 

 glaucous; pedicels 2 to 8 in. long; sepals oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 1 to \\ in. long; petals broadly obovate-cuneate, 1 to If in. broad, 



1 to 2 in. long, white to lilac with an eye-spot in the middle, 

 frequently penciled toward the base, and often with a transversely 

 oblong rose-colored blotch near the apex; gland roundish, lunate, or 

 oblong, densely matted with short hairs; filaments dilated, shorter 

 than or a little exceeding the anthers; capsule linear or linear-clavate, 



2 to 3£ in. long, the sides obliquely and rather closely veined. 

 Light sandy soil or in alkaline fields: Vacaville to the Mt. Diablo 



region and southward in the Coast Ranges; Napa Mountains, varying 

 into bright yellow, Tracy. Also in the Sierras, in a modified color 

 form. Petals mostly roundish, or even somewhat acute at apex, 

 rarely truncate. 



2. C. splendens Dougl. Mariposa Ltly. Stems often bulblet- 

 bearing at base, 1 to 1£ ft. high, slender; sepals ovate, acuminate. 



