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acute, somewhat scabrous or pubescent on the margins and beneath; 

 flowers usually many on short and widely spreading pedicels, 7-15 

 cm. long or more, scattered; segments 6-10 cm. long, 12-24 mm. 

 broad, reflexed, strongly revolute above the short abruptly narrowed 

 claw, reddish-orange with maroon spots, papillose-rigid toward the 

 base; stamens 4-5 cm. long, about equaling the style; anthers oblong, 

 8-16 mm. long, red; capsule large, obovoid, acutely 6-angled. 



Frequent in canyons of the San Gabriel and Santa Monica 

 Mountains. June-July. 



2. L. parryi S. Wats. Bulbs small of numerous thick jointed 

 scales, 2.5 cm. long; stems slender, glabrous, 5-8 dm. high; leaves 

 scattered or the lower whorled, linear-lanceolate, 10-15 cm. long; 

 flowers 2-10, pale yellow, inconspicuously dotted, the segments 6-8 

 cm. long, 10-12 mm. wide, somewhat spreading above or at length 

 recurved at tip; stamens and style shorter; anthers oblong, brown- 

 ish, 6 mm. long; capsule narrowly oblong, acutish, 4-5 cm. long, 

 12 mm. wide. 



Wet meadows and streambanks in the San Bernardino. One of 

 the most attractive and fragrant California lilies. 



10. FRITILLARIA L. Mission Bells. 



Stems erect from scaly bulbs with thick fleshy scales. 

 Leaves scattered or verticillate, mostly narrow and 

 sessile. Flowers solitary or racemose, leafy-bracted, 

 mostly dull-colored, nodding. Perianth campanulate or 

 funnelform, deciduous, of 6 distinct equal oblong-oblance- 

 olate concave segments, more or less blotched or tinged 

 with purple or yellow or white and with a smooth nectar- 

 iferous pit near the base. Stamens inserted on the base 

 of the segments; filaments vslender; anthers oblong, ver- 

 satile, extrorse, dehiscing laterally. Ovules many; style 

 slender, united to the middle or throughout, deciduous. 

 Capsule membranous, ovate or oblong, 6-angled or 

 winged, loculicidally 3-valved. Seeds flat, in 2 rows in 

 each cell, brownish. 



1. F. biflora Lindl. Bulb of a few very thick and fleshy ovate 

 scales, 6-10 cm. long; stem usually stout, 15-45 cm. high, 1-3- 

 flowered; leaves 2-6, mostly near the base, somewhat verticillate 

 or scattered, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 5-10 cm. long; perianth 

 dark brownish-purple tinged with green; segments spreading, oblong- 

 lanceolate, about 25 mm. long; stamens 8-10 mm. long; anthers 

 4 mm. long, mucronate; styles distinct above; stigmas linear; capsule 

 broadly obovoid, somewhat 6-angled, 12-18 cm. long. 



Occasional in open places in the foothills. April. 



