306 LILIACEAE 



Loc. — Bear Creek, Tulare Co., Furpus. 



Eef. — Fritilaria brandegei Eastw. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 30:484 (1903), t}-pe loc. Coburn 

 Mill, Bear Creek, on North Fork, Tule Eiver, T. Braiidegee. 



3. r. pluriflora Torr. Adobe Ltly. Stems 6 to 12 inches high, leafy chiefly 

 at base, 1 to 7-tlo\vered; bulb somewhat yellowish, its scales few (6 to 8), i/o to 1 

 inch long ; leaves 4 to 10, oblong-lanceolate ; perianth uniform pink-purple, the 

 segments obovate-oblong, aeutish, 1 to 1% inches long; style 3-parted at apex; 

 capsule as broad as long, truncate at apex, narrowed toward the base, strongly 

 3-lobed, each lobe with 2 longitudinal dorsal ridges or wings with intervening 

 depression. 



Adobe soil in the foothills bordering the Sacramento Valley: Solano, Yolo 

 and Butte cos. Feb.-Mar. Also called Pink Fritillary. 



Locs. — Vacaville, Jepson 5303; Sweeney Creek, Solano Co., E. H. Piatt; Clear Creek, Butte 

 Co., H. E. Brmrn 141. 



Refs. — Fritillaria pluriflora Torr.; Beutli. PI. Hartw. 338 (1857), ba.sed on Fremont 

 313 (Feather River) and Hartweg 258 (Sierra foothills, n. Butte Co.); Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. 

 Cal. 107 (1901). 



4. F. Uliacea Lindl. White Fritillary. Stem 3 to 10 (or sometimes 12) 

 inches high, often somewhat stout and succulent. 1 to 5-flowered ; leaves of the 

 basal tuft linear to oblong-lanceolate, 14 ^o % inch broad, \\\ to 41^ inches long, 

 the cauline leaves few, linear-oblong or linear ; flowers dull white ; perianth- 

 segments oblong-ovate to obovate, 6 to 9 lines long ; gland greenish, purplish- 

 dotted, the greenish veins sometimes glandular nearly or quite to the apex of 

 the segments ; style cleft to about the middle ; capsule stipitate, truncate at each 

 end, I/O inch long and as broad, the back of each lobe slightly channeled and 

 2-ridged. 



Open hilltops near the coast from San Francisco Bay to Monterey Co. Mar.- 

 Apr. 



Locs. — Pfeifer's Ft., Monterey coast, Marion Farscms; Carmel Bay, F. G. Woodcoclc (odor 

 disagreeable like F. agrestis) ; Redivood City, Jepson 5732; Hillsboro, Inez Smith; Potrero 

 Hills, San Francisco, Dunn (dwarfed) ; San Leandro, A. E. Wieslan-der; Stege (Dai'y 6530) 

 and Point Richmond {Tracy (512), growing in low ground, tall, succulent, with narrow leaves. 



Refs. — Fritillaria liliacea Lindl. Bot. Reg. sub t. 1663 (1835), tvpe from Cal., Donglas; 

 Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 109 (1901). 



5. F. biflora Lindl. Mission Bells. Stem stout, 4 to 10 (rarely 12) inches 

 high, 2 to 4 (rarely 1, less rarely as many as 7) -flowered ; leaves 2 to 7, scattered 

 or somewhat whoiied below, oblong to ovate-laneeolate, 2 to 4 inches long, 14 

 to 114 inches wide; perianth campanulate, 8 to 12 lines long, dark brownish or 

 greenish-purple ; .segments oblong-lanceolate, with a longitudinal greeni.sh gland- 

 ular band extending from the base nearly to the apex ; style cleft to about the 

 middle ; capsule nearly 1 inch broad, and not quite as high. 



Southern California (cisniontane region) northerly to San Luis Obispo Co.; 

 apparently localized also in the North Coast Kanges. Also called Chocolate Lily 

 and Black Lily. 



Locs. — San Diego, Cooper; Winchester, Riverside Co., Sail 384; San Dimas, Chandler; 

 Los Angeles, C. J. Fox; San Luis Obispo, J. A. Metsler; (?) Ilkiah, Bolander. 



Var. inflexa Jepson n. var. Longitudinal band much thickened at apex, especially on the 

 inner perianth-segments and infiexed in such a way as to form a channel at apex on the back 

 of the segments. — (Segmenta pcrianthii virga media ad apicem crassiore, inflexa. ) — Palisades 

 region, Calistoga, Elizabeth C. Wrir/lit (tyjie). Var. ineziana Jepson n. var. Stem slender, 

 1 or 2-flowered: leaves linear-oblong to lanceolate, 2 to 3 inches long, 2 to 4 lines wide; 

 perianth-segments widely spreading, often faintly mottled with yellow; odor very disagreeable. 

 — (Caulis tenuis, 1-2-floribus ; folia liiieari-oblong.a vel lineari-lanceolata; odor nauseosus.) — 

 San Mateo Co.: Hillsboro, Inez Smith {type). Intermediate between the species and F. purdyi. 

 Also closely allied to F. liliacea. 



Refs. — Fritillaria bifi^ora Lindl. Bot. Reg. sub t. 1663 (1835), type from Cal., Dcniglas. 

 F. lanceolota Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound, pi. 61 (1859). F. suceulenta Elmer, Bot. Gaz. 4l':311 



