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LILIACEAE 



3. Fritillaria purdyi Eastw. 

 Purdy's Fritillary. Fig. 1032. 



Fritillaria purdvi Eastw. Bull. Torrey Club 29: 75. 

 1902. 



pi. 6. 



Bulb with 1 or 2 large fleshy scales, seated 

 10-15 cm. Stem stout, 2-4 dm. long; basal 

 leaves approximate, opposite, in 2-3 pairs, thick, 

 pale green, 6-9 cm. long, 15-30 mm. wide, obtuse, 

 the cauline 3 or 4, alternate about half as wide ; 

 flowers 1 or 2, the lower on a slender erect ped- 

 icel, recurved at top, campanulate white mottled 

 with purple lines and spots ; perianth-segments 

 20-25 mm. long, the outer obovate, the inner 

 oblong-lanceolate ; stamens half the length of 

 the segments ; styles surpassing the stamens, 

 connate to the middle ; capsule obtusely angled, 

 abruptly tapering at base. 15 mm. long. 



Upper Sonoran and Transition Zones: Humboldt and 

 Mendocino Counties, California. Type locality: Knee- 

 land, Humboldt County. 



Beuth. 



Fig. 1033. 



4. Fritillaria recurva 



Scarlet Fritillary 



Fritillaria recurva Benth. PL Hartw. 340. 1857. 



Bulb 20-25 mm. in diameter, of numerous thick 

 scales 6-8 mm. long or less. Stems rather stout, 

 4-7 dm. high; leaves usually 8-10, mostly in two 

 whorls near the middle of the stem, linear-lanceo- 

 late, 5-8 cm. long, 3-10 mm. wide; flowers 1-9, on 

 erect or ascending pedicels, campanulate-funnel- 

 form, 20-30 min. long; perianth-segments scarlet, 

 slightly tinged with purple without, yellow spotted 

 with scarlet within, oblanceolate, acutisli, recurved 

 at tip ; nectary obscure ; stamens nearly equalling 

 the segments; anthers 3 mm, long; style very 

 slender, equalling the stamens, united to near the 

 apex, the free portion 2 or 3 mm. long. 



Dry hillsides in open chaparral or woods, Upper 

 Sonoran and Transition Zones; southern Oregon to 

 Mendocino County in the Coast Ranges, and to Placer 

 County in the Sierra Nevada, California. Type locality: 

 "in montibus Sacramento," the Sierra Nevada probably 

 in Butte or Placer County, California. 



Fritillaria recurva coccinea Greene, Pittonia 2 : 230. 1892. Distinguished from the typical form in 

 perianth-segments not recurved at apex, and the flowers usually more brilliantly scarlet. Ongnially collected 

 on Mt. Hood, Lake County, California. Considered by some {Fritillaria. coccinea Greene, Pittonia 2: 250. 

 1892) as a distinct species, and including with it all the Coast Range plants; but, as plants of Mendocino 

 County sometimes have recurved segments, and plants in the Sierra Nevada sometimes straight petals equally 

 bright scarlet, the distinction does not hold geographically. 



5. Fritillaria biflora Lindl. 

 Black Fritillary 



Fig. 1034. 



Fritillaria biflora Lindl. Bot. Reg. 20: under pi. 1663. 1834. 

 Fritillaria grayaua Reichenb. & Baker, Journ. Bot. 16: 263. 1878. 



Bulb 15-20 mm. in diameter, of a few thick fleshy 

 ovate scales, 6-10 mm. long. Stem stout, 15-45 cm. 

 high ; leaves 2i-7, mostly approximate or somewhat 

 verticillate at base, oblong-oblanceolate, 5-10 cm. long, 

 10-25 mm. wide, the cauline smaller, lanceolate; flow- 

 ers 1-4. campanulate, 25-35 mm. long, dark brownish 

 purple tinged with green; perianth-segments spread- 

 ing, oblong-lanceolate; stamens 8-10 mm. long; an- 

 thers 3 mm. long, mucronate ; styles distinct above, 

 exceeding the stamens ; stigmas linear ; capsule broadly 

 obovoid. 12-18 mm, long, obtusely 6-angled. 



Usually in stony adobe soil, Upper Sonoran Zone; San Luis 

 Obispo to Riverside and San Diego Counties. Type locality: 

 California; collected bv Douglas, exact station not known. 



