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6. Fritillaria camtschatcensis (L.) 

 Ker-Gawl. 



Kamchatka Fritillary 



Fig. 1035. 



Lilium camtschatcense L. Sp. PI. 1: 303. 1753. 



Fritillaria camtschatcensis Ker-Gawl. Bot. Mag. 30: 

 under /•/. 1216. 1809. 



Fritillaria iunncllii A. Nels. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 20: 

 35. 1907. 



Bulbs of several large fleshy scales, subtended 

 by numerous rice bulblets. Stems stout, 3-5 

 dm. high ; leaves usually in 2 or 3 whorls, ap- 

 proximate near the summit, lanceolate to oblong- 

 lanceolate. S-7 cm. long ; flowers usually 2, ap- 

 proximate and short-pedicelled ; campanulate. 

 25-35 mm. long, deep-purple tinged with yel- 

 lowish green without ; perianth-segments oblong- 

 oblanceolate. with a very dark oblong gland at 

 base : stamens 12 mm. long ; styles well exceed- 

 ing the stamens, distinct to the middle ; ovary 

 10 mm. long; capsule obtusely angled. 



Moist open woods, Canadian Zone; Aleutian Islands 

 southward along the coast to western Oregon, also on 

 the Asiatic cc.^.^t to Kamchatka. 



7. Fritillaria lanceolata Pursh. 

 Ptirple Rice-bulbed Fritillary or Mission Bells. 



Fig. 1036. 



Fritillaria lanceolata Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 1 : 230. 1814. 



Bulb with numerous rice-grain bulblets. Stem 4-6 

 dm. high ; leaves 6-9, in 2 or 3 whorls, or scattered, 

 ovate-lanceolate, 5-10 cm. long ; flowers 1—4, racemose, 

 deeply bowl-shaped, dark-purple and usually more or 

 less mottled with greenish yellow ; perianth-segments 

 ovate to oblong, 25-35 mm. long, deeply concave, with 

 a large ovate lanceolate, usually dark purple gland 

 sharply defined ; stamens half the length of the seg- 

 ments ; anthers 3 mm. long ; styles exceeding the 

 stamens, distinct above ; capsule broadly ovoid, trun- 

 cate at each end, 2 cm. high, broadly winged on the 

 angles. 



Shaded slopes and along streams, Humid Transition Zone; 

 British Columbia to northern Idaho, and western Washington 

 and south near the coast to northern California. In BuUe 

 County, California, there is a smaller flowered form with the 

 perianth-segments more attenuated, and the styles dark purple. 



8. Fritillaria miitica Liiidl. Mission Bells. Fig. 1037. 



Fritillaria mittica Lindl. Bot. Reg. 20: under pi. 1663. 

 1834." 



Fritillaria lanceolata fioribunda Benth. PI. Hartw. 338. 

 1857. 



Bulb subtended by numerous rice-grain bulb- 

 lets. Stem 4—8 dm. high, glaucous ; leaves in 2 

 or 3 central whorls, and a few scattering, linear- 

 lanceolate. 3-9 cm. long, early radical leaf, long- 

 petioled. oval, often 8 cm. broad ; raceme 1-10- 

 flowered, elongated ; flowers greenish yellow- 

 blotched with bronze-purple, bowl-shaped ; per- 

 ianth-segments oblong-lanceolate, mostly 25-35 

 mm. long, concave, with a prominent oblong 

 greenish purple gland; stamens a little over half 

 the length of the segments ; styles slightly sur- 

 passing the stamens, connate to the middle ; 

 capsule truncate at each end. 15-20 mm. long 

 and as broad, conspicuously winged. 



Open wooded slopes. Upper Sonoran Zone; California 

 Coast Ranges, mostly east of the fog belt, Mendocino 

 County to Santa Barbara. Type locality: California. 



Fritillaria mutica gracilis (S. Wats.) Jepson, Fl. 

 West. Mid. Calif. 108. 1901. {Fritillaria lanceolata 

 gracilis S. Wats.) A smaller form with the perianth- 

 segments 15 mm. long, narrower and somewhat atten- 

 uated at apex. Marin and Xapa Counties, California. 



