LILY FAMILY. 



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Shady woods of the Coast Ranges from Monterey Co. to Oakland,_ 

 the Napa Mountains and westward to the ocean, and northward. 

 Mar. -Apr. 



2. S. amplexicaulis Nutt. Rootstock stout, elongated; stem 1 to 

 3 ft. high, this and the under surface of the leaves with a minute 

 fuzzy pubescence or rarely glabrous; leaves oblong-ovate to lanceo- 

 late, 3 to 7 in. long, acute at apex, sessile by a broad clasping base; 

 panicle usually short peduncled, oblong, 2 to 4 in. long; pedicels 

 solitary, 1 line long or less; perianth segments less than 1 line long; 

 filaments lanceolate or broadly subulate, much longer and often 

 broader than the segments; style very short; berry light red, very 

 finely sprinkled with dark red dots, 2 to 1\ lines in diameter, usually 

 1 -seeded; seed whitish, \\ lines broad. 



Shades of woods. Range of the preceding, but also in the Sierras. 

 Apr. 



22. DISPORUM Salisb. Fairy Bells. 



Rootstocks short, horizontal, bearing fibrous roots and giving rise 

 each year by a terminal bud to an erect stem, which is branched 

 above and leafy. Leaves alternate, ovate, thin, transversely-veined 

 between the primary nerves. Flowers greenish or white, drooping 

 on a terminal peduncle, solitary or few in an umbel. Perianth nar- 

 rowly campanulate, deciduous. Filaments attached within the 

 anthers, above the base. Fruit a berry. (Greek di, two, and spora, 

 seed, some species with two seeds in each cell of the ovary.) 



Flowers greenish, % in. long; style glabrous, entire; leaves mostly cordate at 

 base 1. D. Hookeri. 



Flowers whitish, y A to 1 in. long; style densely short-hairy, slightly 3-cleft at 

 apex; leaves mostly rounded or subcordate at base 2. D. Mtnziem. 



1. D. Hookeri (Torr.) Britton. Roughish-pubescent, 1 to 2^ ft. 

 high; leaves ovate, sessile by the cordate base, abruptly acute or 

 attenuate, 1£ to 3 in. long, the uppermost somewhat oblique; perianth 

 green, narrowly campanulate, 5 to 6 lines long, the tips of the seg- 

 ments spreading; stamens equaling or exceeding the perianth; anthers 

 much longer than the filaments; style glabrous, entire; berry obovate, 

 obtuse, scarlet. 



Shades of woods: Santa Cruz Co.; Oakland Hills; Mt. Diablo; 

 north of San Francisco Bay (Marin Co. to Napa Valley) but not 

 reported from the inner North Coast Ranges. Mar. -May. 



2. D. Menziesii (Don.) Britton. Soft-pubescent or almost 

 glabrous; stems 1 to 3 ft. high; leaves ovate, or sometimes round-ovate 

 to ovate-lanceolate, rounded or subcordate (and often a little oblique) 

 at base, at apex acuminate-attenuate, 2 to 4 in. long; perianth 

 whitish, broad and cup-shaped at base, f to 1 in. long, the tips of the 

 segments erect; stamens shorter than the perianth; style densely 

 short-hairy, except at the very base, slightly 3-cleft at apex; fruit 

 oblong-obovate, attenuate above into a short beak, \ in. long, salmon- 

 color. 



