308 LILIACEAE 



Loc. San Benito Peak, Jepson 2714. 



Eef. FRITILLARIA VIRIDIA Kell. Proc. Cal. Aead. 2:9 (1863), type loc. New Idria, Veatch. 



10. F. recurva Benth. SCARLET FRITILLARY. Stem stout, 18 to 30 inches 

 high ; bulb large and flattish, its scales numerous and thick, with rice-grain 

 bulblets at base ; leaves in 2 or 3 whorls near the middle of the stem, linear to 

 linear-lanceolate, 2 to 6 lines broad ; flowers 3 or 4 (to 6) ; perianth campanulate- 

 funnelform, 1 to 1% inches long, scarlet-checked upon yellow, the scarlet be- 

 coming crimson and purple in old flowers, the segments recurving strongly at 

 the tips; gland oblong, 3 lines long, slightly depressed; style slender, 3-cleft % 

 to 1/5 its length. 



Northern Sierra Nevada (Placer Co. northerly to Modoc Co.) ; Coast Ranges 

 (Mendocino Co. to Siskiyou Co.). North to Oregon. 



Locs. Butterfly Valley, Plumas Co., JR. M. Austin 303; Hatchet Creek, Shasta Co., Baker 

 $ Nutting; Modoc. Co., M. S. Baker; Yreka, Butler 1191; Sisson, L. S. Smith; Buck Mt., 

 Tracy 4176; Bound Valley, Westerman; Long Valley, -Bolander 4708. 



Var. coccinea Greene. Stems commonly more slender, 10 to 20 (or 30) inches high, 1 to 3 

 (or 5) -flowered; bulb small, higher than thick, its scales 2 to several; flowers scarlet, mottled 

 with yellow j segments with tips generally not recurved. Hoods Peak and Napa ranges ; north 

 to eastern Mendocino Co.: Middletown grade, Mt. St. Helena, Jepson; St. Helena, Jepson; 

 Bed Mt., se. of Ukiah, ace. Purdy; Eden Valley, ace. Purdy. 



Kefs. FRITILLARIA RECURVA Benth. PI. Hartw. 340 (1857), type loe. Sierra Nevada foot- 

 hills, n. Butte Co., Hartweg 294; Baker, Bot. Mag. t. 6264 (1876). Var. COCCINEA Greene, 

 Pitt. 2:230 (1892), type loc. Hoods Peak, Sonoma Co., Bioletti. F. coccinea Greene, I.e. 250. 



11. F. lanceolata Pursh. CHECKER LILY. Stem 1% to 2 (or 3) feet high; 

 scales few or none, the lower portion of the solid bulb covered with numerous 

 rice-grain bulblets ; leaves 6 to 10 in 2 or 3 whorls on the upper part of the stem, 

 ovate-lanceolate, 2 to 4 inches long ; raceme 1 to 4, sometimes to 13-flowered ; 

 perianth deeply bowl-shaped, 1 to l^/o inches long, dark purple mottled with 

 greenish yellow, the segments ovate to oblong, deeply concave, with a very large 

 ovate-lanceolate gland in the middle of the concavity ; gland deep green, sharply 

 defined, often with minute black dots; style cleft to below the middle; capsule 

 broadly winged, % inch long. 



Near the coast, on oak-covered or brushy hills: San Mateo Co. north to 

 Humboldt Co. Northerly to British Columbia and Idaho. Also called Rice-root 

 Lily. 



Locs. Lake Pilarcitos, Davy 1056; San Francisco, A. L. Grant; Inverness, Jepson 502b; 

 Long Valley, Mendocino Co., Bolander 4707; Kneeland Prairie, Tracy 2640; Eureka, Tracy 

 4419; Hupa, Manning; Quartz Valley, Siskiyou Co., Butler 1225. 



Var. floribunda Benth. Raceme 2 or 3 to several flowered; perianth campanulate, purple or 

 greenish, conspicuously spotted or checkered, 6 to 13 lines long; segments broadly oblong or 

 narrowly ovate, crisped or erosulate-marginecl, the outer often broader ; gland greenish, extend- 

 ing from the base % or % the way to the apex. Shady woods, Coast Ranges from Santa Clara 

 Co. north to Lake Co. 



Locs. Loma Prieta, Davy 671 ; Los Gatos, Heller 7271 ; Crystal Springs Lake, C. F. BaJcer 

 430; Livermore Valley, Hall 1629; Grizzly Peak, Davy 118; Mt. Tamalpais, Chandler 275; 

 Santa Rosa, M. S. Baker 722; Glen Ellen, M. L. Douglass; Vaca Mts., Jepson; Middletown 

 grade, Mt. St. Helena, Jepson; Kelseyville, Irwin 101. 



Var. gracilis Wats. Flowers smaller than the last, with narrow and more acuminate seg- 

 ments; stamens short and anthers often small. Marin Co. to Napa Co.: Angel Isl., F. P. 

 McLean; Napa Range near Calistoga, Jepson. 



Var. tristulis A. L. Grant n. var. Perianth scarcely mottled, gland black-purple, not dotted. 

 Near the coast in Marin Co., A. L. Grant (type). 



Refs. FRITILLARIA LANCEOLATA Pursh, Fl. 230 (1814), type loc., headwaters of the Colum- 

 bia River, Lewis; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 108 (1901). Var. FLORIBUNDA Benth. PI. Hartw. 

 338 (1857). F. mutica Lindl. Bot. Reg. sub t. 1663 (1835), type from Cal., Douglas; Jepson, 

 Fl. W. Mid. Cal. I.e. F. lanceolata Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2:181 t. 193 (1839), notVursh. Var. 

 GRACILIS Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 14:259. F. lanceolata var.(?) Benth. PI. Hartw. 340 (1857), 

 type loc. Corte Madera, Hartweg 218. F. mutioa var. gracilis Jepson I.e. Var. TRISTULIS 

 A. L. Grant. 



