306 LILIACEAE 



Loc. Bear Creek, Tulare Co., Purpus. 



Eef. FRITILARIA BRANDEGEI Eastw. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 30:484 (1903), type loc. Coburn 

 Mill, Bear Creek, on North Fork, Tule River, T. Brandegee. 



3. F. pluriflora Torr. ADOBE LILY. Steins 6 to 12 inches high, leafy chiefly 

 at base, 1 to 7-flowered; bulb somewhat yellowish, its scales few (6 to 8), 1/2 to 1 

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

 segments obovate-oblong, acutish, 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. Plait; Clear Creek, Butte 

 Co., H. E. Brown 141. 



Eefs. FRITILLARIA PLURIFLORA Torr.; Benth. PI. Hartw. 338 (1857), based on Fremont 

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

 Cal. 107 (1901). 



4. F. liliacea 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 to % inch broad, IVi to 4i/o 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, 1/2 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 Pt., Monterey coast, Marion Parsons; Carmel Bay, F. G. Woodcock (odor 

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

 Hills, San Francisco, Dunn (dwarfed); San Leandro, A. E. Wieslander; Stege (Davy 6530) 

 and Point Richmond (Tracy 612), growing in low ground, tall, succulent, with narrow leaves. 



Refs. FRITILLARIA LILIACEA Lindl. Bot. Reg. sub t. 1663 (1835), type from Cal., Douglas; 

 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 whorled below, oblong to ovate-lanceolate, 2 to 4 inches long, 14 

 to li/4 inches wide ; perianth campanulate, 8 to 12 lines long, dark brownish or 

 greenish-purple ; segments oblong-lanceolate, with a longitudinal greenish 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 (cismontane region) northerly to San Luis Obispo Co.; 

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

 and Black Lily. 



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

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



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

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

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

 region, Calistoga, Elisabeth C. Wright (type). 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 lineari-oblonga 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 BIFLORA Lindl. Bot. Reg. sub t. 1663 (1835), type from Cal., Douglas. 

 F. lanceolota Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound, pi. 61 (1859). F. succulenta Elmer, Bot. Gaz. 41:311 



