LILY FAMILY 



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10. F. glauca. 



11. F. atropiirpurea. 



Styles distinct above; stigmas linear. 



Capsule rather obtusely angled, not winged; bulbs with few to several large fleshly scales. 

 Flowers white or whitish, at least not scarlet or dark purple. 

 Segments not mottled. 



Flowers creamy-white, fragrant. 1. F. liliacea. 



Flowers greenish white, very ill-scented. 2. F. agrestis. 



Segments mottled with purple. 3. F. piirdyi. 



Flowers scarlet or dark purple. 



Flowers scarlet, yellowish within. 4. F. recurva. 



Flowers dark brownish purple throughout. 5. F. biflora. 



Capsule acutely angled and winged. 

 Bulbs with niunerous rice-bulblets. 



Leaves approximate below the flowers; flowers campanulatt. - 6. F. camtscliatceiisis. 



Leaves in 1-3 whorls, near the center of the stem remote from the flowers; flowers bowl-shaped. 

 Leaves broadly lanceolate; flowers deep purple, often mottled with greenish yellow. 



7. F. lanccolata. 

 Leaves narrowly lanceolate to linear; flowers green mottled with bronze-purple. 

 Herbage glaucous; flowers mostly 20—30 mm. long. ,S. F. mutica. 



Herbage pale green, not glaucous; flowers mostly 15 mm. long. 9. F. multiflora. 



Bulbs with few large fleshy scales; herbage very glaucous. 

 Leaves ovate to lanceolate; flowers usually only 1 or 2. 

 Leaves narrowly linear; flowers only 1 or usually several. 

 Capsule wings without horn-like processes; ovary obtuse. 

 Capsule wings with horn-like processes at the base and apex; ovary truncate. 



12. F. pinetortim. 

 Styles connate to the 3-lobed stigmas. 

 Flowers usually several, not yellow. 



Perianth reddish purjjle, glabrous, 25-35 mm. long. 13. F. phiriflora. 



Perianth purple, with a tuft of hairs near the apex of the segments, 20 nun. long. 



14. F. brandegci. 

 Flower usually solitary, nodding, yellow. 15. F. pudica. 



1. Fritillaria liliacea Lindl. Fragrant Fritillary. Fig. 1030. 



Fiitiilaria iiliacea Lindl. Bot. Reg. 20: under pi. 1663. 1S34. 

 Liliorhiza lanccolata Kell. Proc. Calif. Acad. 2: 46. fig. 1. 

 1860. 



Bulb.s 15-20 mm. in diameter, of few thick scales, 

 6-8 mm. lotig. Stem slender, 2-4 dm. high ; leaves 

 5-20. usually approximate or verticillate near the 

 base, the lower oblanceolate, 5-8 cm. long, 6-15 mm. 

 wide, the upper few, becoming linear ; flowers 1-5, 

 campanulate, fragrant ; perianth-segments, oblong- 

 ovate to obovate, 12-18 mm. long, creatny-white, 

 more or less tinged with green, with a greenish 

 purple gland at base ; stamens about half the length 

 of the perianth-segtnents ; anthers 3 mm. long ; styles 

 exceeding the stamens, divided to below the middle ; 

 stigmas slender ; capsule stipitate, truncate at each 

 end, 10-15 mm. broad and as long, obtusely angled. 



Open grassy slopes, usually on outcrops of basalt. Upper 

 Sonoran Zone; Sonoma to Santa Clara Counties, California. 

 Type locality: California; collected by Douglas probably in 

 the vicinitv of San Francisco. 



2. Fritillaria agrestis Greene. 

 Ill-scented Fritillary, Stink Bells. Fig. 1031. 



Fritillaria bifiura agrestis Greene, Man. Bay Reg. 311. 1894. 

 Fritillaria agrestis Greene, Erythea 3: 67. 1895. 

 Fritillaria sticculenta Elmer, Bot. Gaz. 41: 311. 1906. 



Bulbs with several large fleshy scales, usually seated 

 15-20 cin. Stems leafy at base, naked or nearly so 

 above, 2-4 dm. high ; leaves 5-12 approximate near the 

 base, mostly oblanceolate, 5-7 cm. long, 8-15 mm. wide, 

 thick and more or less succulent ; racemes 1-5-flowered ; 

 pedicels slender. 4 cm. or less in length ; flowers creamy- 

 white tinged with green and purplish at base, campanu- 

 late, 15 mm. long, with a strong disagreeable tishy odor ; 

 perianth-segments oblong-ovate ; stamens 10 mm. long ; 

 styles distinct above, somewhat exceeding the stamens ; 

 capsule obtusely angled, abruptly rounded at base to a 

 short stipe. 



Low ground in usually adobe soil. Upper .Sonoran Zone; 

 upper Sacramento X'alley south to southern San Joaquin Valley 

 and in the Inner Coast Range valleys from Contra Costa to San 

 Benito and Monterey Counties. Type locality: "grain-fields 

 among the valleys of the Mt. Diablo Range, California." 



