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LILIACEAE 



9. Fritillaria multiflora Kell. Many-flowered Fritillary. Fig. 1038. 



Fritillaria multiflora Kell. Proc. Calif. Acad. 1 : 57. 1855. 



Fritillaria parviflora Torr. Pacif. R. Rep. 4: 146. 1857., 

 not Mart. 1838. 



Fritillaria viridia Kell. Proc. Calif. Acad. 2 : 9. 1863. 



Fritillaria micrantha Heller, Muhlenbergia 6: S3. 1910. 



Bulb with the solid centers subtended by 

 numerous rice-grain bulblets. Stems light green, 

 but not glaucous, slender, 3-5 dm. high ; racemes 

 3-20-flo\vered"; pedicels slender, slightly recurved ; 

 flowers broadly campanulate, greenish yellow, more 

 or less blotched with brownish purple, 15 mm. long; 

 perianth-segments oblanceolate, concave, with shal- 

 low nectaries ; stamens a little over half the length 

 of the segments ; styles exceeding the stamens, 

 distinct above the middle ; capsule prominently 

 6-winged. 



On shaded canon slopes or borders of springs. Arid 

 Transition Zone; Sierra Nevada from Siskiyou to Mariposa 

 County, also in the San Carlos Mountains. San Benito 

 Covmty. Type locality: probably Placerville, California. 



10. Fritillaria glaiica Greene. 

 Siskiyou Fritillary. Fig. 1039. 



Fritillaria glaiica Greene, Ervthea 1: 153. 1893. 



Bulb small, with few large fleshy scales. Stem 

 8-15 cm. high ; leaves 2-4, scattered, oblong-lan- 

 ceolate, glaucous ; flowers 1-3, purple marked 

 with greenish yeliow ; perianth-segments oblong- 

 lanceolate, 15-20 mm. long, with large oblong 

 nectary; stamens 12 mm. long; styles distinct to 

 the middle ; capsule broadh* winged. 



Barren slopes, Arid Transition Zone; Siskiyou Moun- 

 tains, southern Oregon. Type locality: near Waldo, 

 Oregon. 



11. Fritillaria atropurpiarea Xutt. 

 Purple Fritillary. Fig. 1040. 



Fritillaria atropurpurea Nutt. Journ. Acad. Philad. 7: 54. 

 1834. 



Bulb 10-15 nmi. in diameter, with several large 

 fleshy scales. Stem 1-5 dm. high, naked below the 

 middle ; leaves 6-20, scattered or the upper verticil- 

 late, narrowly linear, ?>-% cm. long; flowers 1-6, dull 

 purple, more or less blotched with yellowish green ; 

 perianth-segments 8-20 mm. long, elliptic to linear, 

 with obscure nectary ; stamens about two-thirds the 

 length of the segments; styles distinct almost to the 

 base; capsule broadly obovoid, about 15 mm. long, 

 acutely angled. 



Gravelly slopes, Canadian and Arid Transition Zones; 

 Blue Mountains, Oregon to the southern .Sierra Nevada and 

 l.ake County, California, east to North Dakota and Utah. 

 Type locality: on the borders of Flathead River, Montana. 



