804 LlLlACEiE. (LILY FAillLY.) 



15. FRITILJLARIA, L. Fritillaria. 



Perigouium deciduous, divisions 6, obovate to oblong-spathulate^ 

 furnished with a nectariferous pit at or above base. Stamens 6, peri- 

 gynous, shorter than perigonium, anthers fixed near base. Ovary ses- 

 sile, 3-celled. Style filiform, more or less parted into 3 stigmas, or 

 undivided. Capsule obovate or cylindrical, usually short-stalked, 

 obtusely or acutely hexagonal ; seeds numerous, discoid — Bulbous, 

 caulescent herbs, flowers camj^anulate or obconical. 



* Bulbs small. Flowers terminal, solitary or few. • 



t Style tvifd. Verigmiium carrvpanulate. 



1. F. acmopetala, Boiss. % .6; steml-2-flowered, leafy for its 

 upper two-thirds. Leaves linear to linear-lanceolate, the uppermost 

 tapering. Flower .04 long, nodding, cylindrical-campanulate, divisions 

 oblong-oblanceolate, ahruptly contracted into a more or less recurved 

 mucro, with an ovate-oblong nectary at somewhat gibbous base, 

 brownish-red with yellowish margins, yellow within, red-tesselated 

 below; filaments papillose, once and a half as long as anther; style tri- 

 lid beyond middle; capsule .035 long, oblong-club-shaped — Spring — 

 Subalpine regions of Lebanon, Amanus, and northward. 



Yar. iiiermis, Post. Divisions of perigonium obtuse, papillose at 

 tip. Perhaps this is F. Olivieri, Baker. 



2. F. crassifolia, Boiss. et Huet. 2|! .1 to .25 ; stem 1-2-flowered, 

 o-6-leaved above middle. Leaves fleshy, oblong-lanceolate .015 to .02 

 broad, to linear-lanceolate .005 broad, all acute. Flow^er campanulate, 

 .02 to .025 long, nodding, browmish-yellow, with red, longitudinal lines, 

 and mottled with red at inner face; divisions oblong-elliptical, obtuse, 

 furnished with a small, ovate nectary above base ; filaments nearly twice 

 as long as anthers ; style tritid for one-third of its length, capsule globu- 

 lar-top-shaped, .015 long and broad, obtusely angled — Spring — Alpine 

 Lebanon; Suq-Wadi-Barada ; Aintab. 



Var. Heruiouis, Boiss. Flower smaller, deeper colored — Top 

 of Hermon. 



1 1 Style entire or dbsoletely trilobed. Perigonium olconical. 



3. F. viridiflora, Post. 2f (Bulletin Herbier Boissier, III., 1G4). 

 .2; stem 1-2-flowered, leafy from middle. Leaves (?;;2^^S2Ye or scattered, 

 oblong-lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, lower .07 long .013 broad, upper 

 shorter and narrower, all rather obtuse, the upper three usually forming 

 an involucre. Flower .025 to .03 long, olconical-cylindrical, rounded at 

 base; peduncle nodding, one-half to one-third as long as flower; 

 divisions of perigonium oblong, green, parallel-nerved; stamens half as 

 long as perigonium, filaments papillose, twice as long as anther; style 

 undivided, 3-grooved, about as long as ovary; stigma short-3-lobed"— 

 April — Stony, inundated fields in the Kurd Dagh. 



* * Bulb large, scaly. Inflorescence racemed. Style simple. 



4. F. l.ibaiiotica, Boiss. 71 1, glaucous; stem thick. Leaves 

 crowded, ternately whorled, oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate, .01 to .025 

 oroad, acute, oblique. Raceme .15 to .3 long, 10-25-flowered ; pedun- 

 cles nodding, once and a half as long as flower; perigonium obconical, 

 .014 long,^ Hlac-yelloio, with deeper colored veins, divisions obovate, 

 obtuse, with an ovate nectary at base; filaments papillose, 4-5 times as 



