LILY FAMILY 307 



(1906), type loe. Hernandez, San Benito Co., Laura M. Lathrop; leaves succulent, covered with 

 a bloom. — Ex. char. Var. inflexa Jepsou. Var. inbsiana Jepson. 



6. F. purdyi Eastw. Stem 4 to 9 inches high, 1 to 7-fio\vei-ed ; basal leaves 

 ovate to oblong, obtusish, li/4 to 214 inches long, the upper linear; flowers white 

 and purple mottled, shaded with pink ; style cleft about to the middle. 



Humboldt and Trinity cos. 

 Loc. — Le\viston, Wendell Philips. 



Bef.— Fritillaria purdyi Eastw. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 29:75, pi. 6 (1902), type loc. 

 Kneeland, Humboldt Co., C. Lowe. 



7. F. agrestis Greene. Stink Bells. Stem from vei-y deep-seated bulb, 12 

 to 20 inches high, leafy on the lower half; leaves 8 to 12, oblong-oblanceolate to 

 linear-lanceolate, alternate or the lower somewhat whorled ; raceme 3 to 8-flowered, 

 the flowers exactly campanulate, nodding on pedicels abruptly recurved at sum- 

 mit ; jterianth-segments 1 to ly^ inclies long, 4 to 5 lines wide; yellowish green, 

 with prominent or ligulate green band running nearly to the apex, distinctly 

 glandular at base, and more or less glandular above ; style cleft to about the 

 middle. 



Grain fields, region of the lower San Joaquin and Sacramento rivers. Odor 

 very obnoxious. 



Locs. — Turlock, comm. Edith M. Wiclces; e. side of Mt. Diablo, Linda Gehringer; Antioch, 

 Davy 987; Sacramento Co., J. Durham (1-flowered dwarf). 



Refs. — Fritillaria agrestis Greene, Erythea 3:67 (1895), type loc. Antioch, Greene; 

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



8. F. parviflora Torr. Bkown Bells. Stem IV^ to 21/0 feet high; bulb 

 witli numerous rice-grain bulblets; leaves linear to linear-lanceolate, 2i/^ to 4 

 inches long, 3 to 4 lines wide, borne on the upper half of the stem, the lower ones 

 3 to 5 in a whorl, the upper whorled or alternate ; raceme long, with 4 to 10 

 campanulate flowers on short recurved pedicels; perianth 4 to 6 lines long, pur- 

 plisli or greenisli white to greenish purple, often lighter inside, rarely faintly 

 mottled, the veins evident, darker; segments obovate-oblong, obtuse to acumi- 

 nate, with oblong-lanceolate glands on lower third ; stamens with subulate fila- 

 ments, % as long as the segments and a little sliorter than the style ; style cleft 

 1 ■{ to 7-5 its length, the terminal flowers often (or occasionally several or all the 

 flowers) with pistil less than half developed; ovary and capsule broadly winged. 



Pine woods: Sierra Nevada from Yuba Co. to Tulare Co., 1500 to 3900 feet; 

 occasional in the inner Coast Range. 



Logs. — Sierra Nevada: Penn Valley, Nevada Co., Jepson; Squaw Valley, Placer Co., L. S. 

 Smith; New York Falls, Amador Co., Hansen 51; Avery, Calaveras Co., A. L. Grant; Gwin 

 Mine, Calaveras Co., Jepson 1788; Yankee Hill, Tuolumne Co., Jepson 6404; Kinsley, Mariposa 

 Co., (iKirlotie Hoak; Sequoia Mills (Millwood). Ea.<itn:ood; Marble Fork, Kaweah River, 

 Hopping 303. Coast Ranges: Hollister, Bettiis; Mt. Diablo, Jepson 7573. 



Refs. — Fritillaria parviflora Torr. Pac. R. Rep. 4:146 (1857), type loc. Murphy's, 

 Calaveras Co., Bigelow. Not F. parviflora Mart. (1838). F. micrantlia Heller, Muhl. 6:83 

 (1910). 



9. F. viridia Kell. Stem 8 to 20 inches high, 3 to 6-flowered ; bulb 1,4 to 1/2 

 inch in diameter, its scales round and tliick; leaves lance-linear, subacute, 1% 

 to 21/2 inelies long in 1 or 2 whorls on the upper half of the stem ; flowers pendent 

 on short pedicels, pale green to almost black, campanulate, 5 to 7 lines long; 

 perianth-segments lanceolate, somewhat chartaceous; gland dark green, lanceo- 

 late, extending from the base and continued less distinctly to the apex, or quite 

 obscure; apical tuft of hairs short, dense, white, glandular; anthers minutely 

 but distinctly mucronate ; style 3-cleft to about the middle; ovary cylindrical, 

 acutely angled ; capsule not seen. 



San Carlos Range. A local and long-neglected species, but perhaps too near 

 the preceding. 



