LILY FAMILY 



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1. Erythronium multiscapoideum (Kell. 



Sierra l''a\vn Lily. 



Fig. 



Fritillaria multiscapoidea Kell. Proc. Calif. Acad. 1 : 46. 1855. 



Erythronium Itartwegii S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 14: 261. 1879. 



Erythronium multiscapoideum Nelson & Kennedy, Muhlenbergia 

 3: 137. 1908. 



Corm ovate-oblong, 12-18 mm. long, offshoots pro- 

 duced at the base of the corm on slender stolons. Leaves 

 oblanceolatc. mottled ; flowers solitary or 2 or 3 in a 

 cluster arising from a sessile umbel, each on an elon- 

 gated scape-like pedicel, cream-yellow above orange 

 toward the base, fading to light pink ; perianth-segments 

 spreading, becoming recurved in age, lanceolate. 25-45 

 mm. long ; the inner with a small rounded appendage at 

 the base of the medial folds and a smaller one on the 

 edge ; filaments about 4 mm. long, stout, not dilated 

 below, white, the outer abruptly narrowed at the apex ; 

 anthers cream-yellow, 10 mm. long ; style 10-12 mm. 

 long : stigma 3-lobed, the lobes recurved ; ovary ovate- 

 oblong. 4 mm. long; capsule oblong-obovoid, 15 mm. 

 long, slightly winged. 



Open woods and moist rocky situations. Upper Sonoran and 

 Transition Zones; foothills of the Sierra Nevada from Placer to 

 Mariposa Counties. Type locality: Placerville, Tuolumne County, 

 California. Fritrillaria nntltiscapoidca Kell.. heretofore referred 

 to E. purpurasccns S. Wats., undoubtedly is this species. 



) Nelson & Kennedy. 

 1045. 



2. Erythronium grandiflorum Pursh. Yellow Fawn Lilv 



Fig. 1046. 



Erythronium grandiiiorum Pursh, Fl. Sept. 1: 231. 1814. 

 Erxthronium grandMorum minus Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 182. 



1840. 

 Ervthroiiium grandifiorum candidum Piper, Piper & Beattie, Fl. 



Southeast Wash. 61. 1914. 



Leaves 7-15 cm. long, oblong-lanceolate, acute or 

 acutish, narrowed to a broad and usually short petiole, 

 not mottled ; scape elongated, bearing a solitary flower 

 or often a raceme of 2-6 flowers ; perianth-segments 

 bright yellow lanceolate, acuminate, strongly recurved, 

 3-5 cm. long; filaments about 12 mm. long, dilated below 

 the middle ; anthers reddish purple, 4-6 mm. long after 

 dehiscence ; ovary narrowly oblong, narrowed to a short 

 stipe ; stigma 3-lobed, the lobes at length recurved ; 

 capsule narrowly oblong-oblanceolate, gradually nar- 

 rowed to a short stipe. 



Open forests and grassy hillsides, Arid Transition Zone; 

 British Columbia to Oregon, east of the Cascade Mountains, east 

 to Montana and Utah. A white-flowered form (var. candidum) 

 sometimes occvirs. Type locality: "on the Kooskooskee," near 

 the present town of Kamiah, Idaho. 



3. Erythronium parviflorum ( S. Wats.) 

 Goodding. 



Small-flowered Fawn Lily 



Fig. 1047. 



Erxthronium grandiiiorum parvifioriim S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 

 26: 129. 1891. 



Erythronium parviHorum Goodding, Bot. Gaz. 33: 67. 1902. 



Corm narrowly oblong, 3-5 cm. long, arising in suc- 

 cession from a short rhi^ome. Leaves oblong, gradually 

 narrowed at both ends, 10-15 cm. long, 3-4 cm. wide, not 

 mottled : scape slender, 10-20 cm. long ; flowers rarely 

 more than one, terminating an abruptly curved pe- 

 duncle ; perianth-segments bright yellow with a very pale 

 greenish base, broadly lanceoiate-acuminate, 2-3 cm. 

 long, 1 cm. wide, strongly reflexed ; filaments slender, 

 slightly dilated below, 1-1.5 cm. long; anthers cream 

 color ; style clavate, 3-lobed ; capsule broadly oblong to 

 oval, 2-3 cm. long. 



In subalpine meadows, Canadian and Hudsonian Zones; Brit- 

 ish Columbia, south through the Olympic and Cascade Mountains 

 to northern California, extending eastward to Wyoming and 

 Colorado. Type locality: Telephone Mines, Wyoming. 



