10-12 em, long, 1.5-2.5 cm. wide, all acute, or shortly acuminate; racemes 
l-several flowered, the pedicels 8=25 cm, long in fruit; flowers nodding, 
bright orange dotted with purple, the segments 4-6 cm, long, 8-15 mm, 
wide, lanceolate, acute, narrowed at the base; stamens 3-4 em, long, 
the filaments slender, anthers 6-9 ma, long, yellow; ovary very slender, 
1,5-2 cm, long, narrowed below the middle, capsule erect, oblong, 3-4 cm, 
long, 1.5-2 cm. wide, narro ed at the base, truncate or rounded at the 
summit, 5-lobed; seeds 4-7 mm, in diameter, wing-margined, light brown, 
Common in burns and open places, below 3000 fte, rarely in forest; 
observed chiefly north of the Coeur d'Alene Rg; not seen in the Clearwater 
Foreste 
)3. 
ff Pritillaria (Tourn.) Le Fritillary. 
rect glabrous unbranched herbs with scaly bulbs, commonly bearing 
grain-like bulblets. Leaves alternate and whorled, sessile. Flowers 
showy, nodding, comaonly sevcral in a short raceme or solitary, leafye 
bracted, FPerianth deciduous, its segments rather fleshy, subeoual, 
distinct, not recurved, each with a nectar-pit at the base. Stamens 65. 
included, the anthers basifixed. Style deciduous, simple or 3-cleft, 
Capsule loculicidal, Seeds brovm, flat, horizontally arranged in two 
rows in each locule. 
O Style S-cleft; perianth segments 25-35 mn, long, 
| ae purple, mottled with greenish yellow; 
Nleaves lanceolate 4. Fe lanceolata 
O Style entire, stigua S-lobeds; perianth segments 
yj 10-20 rae long, yellow or orange, tinted 
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“with purple; leaves narrowly oblong 4) Fe pudica 
