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12. Fritillaria pinetorum Davidson. Davidson's Fritillary 



Fritillaiia pinetorum Davidson, iluhlenbergia 4: 67. 1908. 

 Fritilliaria atropiirpiirea pinetorum Johnston, Plant World 22: 84. 1919. 



Plants glaucous throughout, 10-30 cm. high. Leaves few 

 to many, scattered, narrowly linear, 5-15 cm. long; flowers 

 erect or scarcely nodding, 1-3, dull purple mottled with green- 

 ish yellow ; perianth-segments elliptic, 12-15 mm. long, with 

 obscure nectary ; styles distinct nearly to the base ; capsule 

 12-15 mm. long and as broad, the winged angles witli horn- 

 like processes at the summit. 



Open pine forests, Arid Transition Zone; southern Sierra Nevada, 

 especially on the desert slopes to Mt. Pinos and the San Bernardino 

 Mountains. Type locality: !Mt. Cummings, Tehachapi ilountains. 



Fig. 104L 



13. Fritillaria pluriflora Torr. 



Fig. 1042. 



Wine-colored Fritillary, 



Fritillaria pluriflora Torn; Benth. PI. Hartw. 338. 1857. 



Bulbs of large fleshy scales, seated 10-15 cm. 

 Stems stout, 2-4 dm. high ; leaves 6-20, scattered 

 from near the base to the summit, sometimes 

 somewhat verticillate, narrowly lanceolate, 6-9 

 cm. long ; flowers 4-12, nodding on slender 

 elongated pedicels, uniformly reddish purple, 

 not at all blotched, campanulate, 20-35 mm. long; 

 perianth-segments, oblanceolate, with obscure 

 nectaries ; stamens half the length of the seg- 

 ments ; styles connate exceeding the stamens ; 

 stigmas shortly 3-lobed ; capsule obtusely angled. 



Adobe soil on the plains and foothills, Upper Sonoran 

 Zone; Sacramento Valley. Butte and Yolo Counties. 

 Type locality: Feather River, California. Locally 

 known as Adobe Lily. 



14. Fritillaria brandegei Eastw. Brandegee's Fritillarv 



'Fig. 1043. 



Fritillaria braudcaci Eastw. Bull. Torrey Club 30: 484. 1903. 



Bulbs unknown. Stems apparently tall, stout ; 

 leaves in whorls of 5-9, lanceolate, 7-9 cm. long, 1-2 

 cm. wide ; flowers about 7, in rather stout recurved 

 pedicels, purplish, campanulate, 2 cm. long ; perianth- 

 segments oblong-lanceolate, becoming involute and 

 spreading, somewhat revolute from the base, with a 

 tuft of silky hairs at apex ; nectaries obscure ; fila- 

 ments acuminate, 2 mm. liroad. 6 mm. long; styles 

 exceeding the stamens, 1 cm. long connate ; stigma 

 capitate, scarcely 3-lobed ; ovary 6-winged. truncate, 

 6 mm. long ; capsule unknown. 



Open pine forests. Transition Zone; southern Sierra 

 Nevada. Type locality: Coburn's Mills, Tulare County, 

 California. 



