LILY FAMILY. 



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winged and produced beyond the anther in the form of thin append- 

 ages. Ovary on a short stipe or sessile. Capsule loculicidal, 

 beaked by the style which splits with the valves. (William Hooker, 

 1779-1832, botanical artist of London.) 



Umbel loose, mostly few-flowered, borne on a short rigidly erect scape; 

 pedicels firm: perianth-tube turbinate or urn-shaped, the segments equalii g 

 or exceeding the tube; stamens inserted high on the perianth, those with 

 anthers 3; those opposite outer segments changed to siaminodia and 

 bearing white petal-like plates; unthers innaie; corms not flattened. 

 Scapes almost wholly subterranean, the umbel sessile on the ground; 



staminodia yellowish i. H. terrestris. 



Scapes 3 to 18 in. high; staminodia white. 

 Perianth turbinate-caiupanulate; staminodia commonly retuse, longer than 



the stamens 2. H. minor. 



Perianth-tube oblong with rotate or recurving segments; staminodia acute, 



mostly shorter than the stamens 3. H. coronaria. 



Umbel capitate, many-flowered, borne on a straight erect or even very tall and 



twining scape; perianth-tube urn-shaped or tubular, angular or saccate 

 and more or less inflated; segments about equaling the tube; stamens 6, 

 all with innate anthers or those opposite the outer segments with half-sized 

 anthers or entirely sterile; leaves mostly 2, fleshy. 

 Stamens with anthers 3. 

 Flower rose-red or pinkish; filaments and staminodia emarginate; scapes 



very much e'ongated. commonly twining 4. H. volubilis. 



Flowers blue-purple; anthers bifid at each end, sessile; staminodia deeply 



cleft 5. if. congetta. 



Stamens with anthers 6; inner filaments with two lanceolate appendages 

 extended beyond the anthers; outer filaments dilated at base; bracts 

 conspicuous, of a violet-purple or metallic color . . . 6. H. capitata. 

 Umbel loose, many-flowered, borne on a straight, erect, and rather slender 

 scape; flowers blue, white, or yellow; perianth-tube narrowly turbinate 

 to open-campanulate. not inflated or angular or saccate, longer or shorter 

 than the segments; stamens 6; anthers versatile; filaments slender or 

 .winged; ovary on slender stipe or rarely subsessile; corms somewhat 

 flattened. 



Flow ers yellow; filaments dilated, forked at apex, the anther borne on a cusp 



in Ihe middle of the notch 7. H. ixioides. 



Flowers commonly blue or purple, sometimes pale or nearly white; filaments 

 mainly coalescent with the perianth, the short free portion slender, not 

 winged; anthers versati e. 

 Perianth violet-purple; anthers 2-lobed at base, all with distinct filaments. 



8. H. laxa. 



Perianth pale rose-purple or nearly white; " anthers retuse at apex." those 



opposite ihe outer segments sessile 9. H. peduncularis. 



Flowers white; filaments with broadly triangular and slighily united bases. 



10. H. hyacinthina. 



1. H. terrestris (Kell.) Greene. Scape very short, scarcely rising 

 above the surface of the ground, or altogether subterranean; umbels 

 2 to 10 or 20-flowered, the slender pedicels 3 to 4 in. long; perianth 

 purple, 8 to 10 lines long, the limb rotate; anthers oblong, sagittate, 

 H lines long, slightly longer than the filaments and shorter than the 

 staminodia, these yellowish, emarginate and with revolute edges. — 

 (Brodia?a terrestris Kell.) 



Near the coast from Monterey and "Watsonville to Mendocino; 

 common in the sandy soil in the region about San Francisco. June- 

 July. 



2. H. minor (Wats.) Britten. Scapes slender, 3 to 6 in. high, 

 bearing an umbel of 2 to 5 blue flowers on pedicels 1 to 2} in. long; 



