t 

 Fritilluria. LILIACE^E. 



bright orange-red with a lighter orange centre and large purple spots on the lower 

 half: stamens and style a third shorter; anthers red, 4 or 5 lines long : ovary 12 to 

 14 lines long : capsule narrowly oblong with acutish angles, 1 inches long or more, 

 umbilicate at the summit. Proc. Calif. Acad. ii. 12; Baker, 1. c. 242. L. Cali- 

 fornicum, Lindl. ; Florist, 1873, t. 33. L. siiperbum, var. pardalmum, Baker, 

 Journ. Hort. Soc. 1873, 45. L. Canadense, vars. pardalinum and Californiciim, 

 Bolander, 1. c. 



Var. angustifolium, Kell. Stem slender, 2 or 3 feet high : leaves scattered or 

 somewhat verticillate, linear (3 or 4 lines broad), obscurely 3 - 5-nerved : flowers 1 

 to 10, with narrow segments. Watson, 1. c. 258. L. Canadense, var. Hariweyi, 

 Baker. L. Roezli, Regel, Gartenfl. 1870, t. 667 ; Baker, 1. c. 243. 



From Central California probably to Oregon, in the Coast Ranges and foothills of the Sierra 

 Nevada to an altitude of 4,000 feet, on stream-banks and in wet localities ; the variety on moist 

 slopes in the lower foothills. Roezl's reported locality for the variety (mountains of Utah) was 

 doubtless a mistake. It has also been found iu the Santa Cruz Mountains (Harlwecj) and iu 

 Huuiboldt County, Kclloyy. 



H- -H- Bulbs ovoid, with fleshy lanceolate Imbricated scales. 



7. L. Humboldtii, Roezl & Leiclitlin. Bulbs large, 2 to 6 inches in diameter, 

 white or purplish, the very fleshy ovate-lanceolate acute scales 2 or 3 inches long : 

 stems stout, purplish, puberulent or glabrous, 4 to 8 feet high : leaves usually in 4 to 

 6 whorls of 10 to 20 each, oblanceolate, undulate, 4 or 5 inches long and 9 to 12 

 lines wide, acute, bright green, somewhat scabrous or pubescent on the margin and 

 beneath : bracts often ovate : flowers few to many, on usually stout and widely 

 spreading pedicels 3 to 6 inches long or more, scattered ; segments 3 or 4 inches 

 long, 6 to 12 lines broad, strongly revolute above the short abruptly narrowed claw, 

 reddish orange with purple spots, papillose-ridged toward the base : stamens 1^ to 

 2 inches long, about equalling the style, with red oblong-linear anthers 4 to 8 lines 

 long: capsule large, obovoid, acutely 6-angled. Duchartre, Obs. 105; Regel, 

 Gartenfl. 1872, t. 724 ; Fl. Serres, t. 1973 ; Krelage, Not. de Lis, 27, t. 4. L. Gana- 

 dense, var. pubendum, Torr. Pacif. Ii. Rep. iv. 146. L. Bloomerianum, Kellogg, 

 Proc. Calif. Acad. iv. 160, and var. ocellatum, same, v. 88, t. 4. 



In dry open localities in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada at 2,500 to 3,500 feet altitude, south- 

 ward to San Diego County (Palmer) and Santa Rosa Island off Santa Barbara, Harford. 



8. L. Columbianum, Hanson. Bulb small (1^ to 2 inches in diameter), with 

 lanceolate acute closely appressed whitish scales : stems 2 or 3 feet high or more, 

 slender : leaves in whorls of 5 to 9 or sometimes more, the upper and lower scattered, 

 oblanceolate, 2 to 4 inches long and 6 to 15 lines wide, acute, smooth : flowers few 

 to many, scattered, on slender curving more or less divergent pedicels 3 to 6 inches 

 long ; segments H to 2 inches long and 4 to 6 lines wide, strongly revolute, bright 

 reddish orange thickly spotted with purple : stamens about equalling the style, 12 

 to 15 lines long, with yellow oblong anthers 2 or 3 lines long : capsule short-oblong, 

 an inch long, acutely 6-angled. Baker, Gard. Chron. 1871, 1257, and 1. c. 243. 

 L. Canadense, var. parvijiorum, Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. ii. 181. L. Canadense, vars., 

 Wood, 1. c. 166. L. lucidum, Kellogg, 1. c. vi. 144. 



Frequent in Washington Territory and Oregon, and southward iu the Sierra Nevada to Plumas 

 and Sierra Counties. 



19. FRITILLARIA, Linn. 



Perianth campanulate to funnelforrn, deciduous, of 6 distinct equal oblong-oblanceo- 

 late concave segments, somewhat spreading, more or less blotched or tinged with 

 purple, or sometimes yellow or white, and with a smooth shallow nectariferous pit 

 near the base. Stamens 6, inserted on the base of the segments, included ; filaments 

 slender ; anthers oblong, versatile, extrorse, dehiscing laterally. Ovary sessile or 



