Fritillaria. LILIACE.E. 169 



-i H Capsule short and thick, acutely anyled or winged, GOMOCARPA, Baker. 

 H- Floivers usually large (an inch long or more). 



4. F. lanceolata, Pursh. Bulbs of thick scales half an inch long or less : stem 

 a foot or two high, 1 - 2-flowered, deep green and glaucous throughout : leaves 

 usually 6 to 12, in 1 to 3 whorls on the upper part of the stem, linear-lanceolate to 

 lanceolate, 2 to 5 inches long : flowers on slender pedicels (at least the lower ones 

 an inch long or more), broadly campanulate, dark purple somewhat mottled with 

 greenish yellow ; segments narrowly oblong-lanceolate, strongly arched, with a large 

 oblong nectary: stamens 6 to 8 lines long; anthers 1| to 3^ lines long: capsule 

 broadly winged, nearly an inch long. Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. ii. 181, t. 193, B. 



Var. floribunda, Benth. Flowers several (1 to 8), usually lighter colored, 

 coarsely blotched with brownish purple ; segments broad (4 to 6 lines), acute, the 

 margin finely crenulate-undulate. PI. Hartw. 338. F. mutica, Lincll. 1. c. 



Var. gracilis, Watson. Flowers smaller than in the last, with narrower and 

 more acuminate segments : filaments short and anthers often scarcely longer than 

 broad. Proc. Am. Acad. xiv. 259. F. lanceolata, var. (?), Benth. PI. Hartw. 340. 



The typical form ranges from British Columbia southward near the coast into Northern Cali- 

 fornia (Mendocino County, Jjolander, n. 4707). The varieties are common in the Coast Ranges 

 from Santa Cruz to Marin Counties, the var. gracilis the less frequently (Corte Madera, ffarttccg, 

 n. 2005 ; near the Geysers, Bolander, n. 3969 ; also by Bridges, n. 350 ; at Camp Bidwell, Mat- 

 thews, and near Chico, with very dark flowers, Mrs. J. Bidwell). The F. viridia of Kellogg, 

 Proc. Calif. Acad. ii. 9, from near New Idria, appears to be a form with light-colored uumottled 

 flowers. The radical leaves are sometimes very large, ovate or elliptical. 



H- -H- Flowers smaller : leaves linear. 



5. P. parviflora, Torr. Bulb as in the last : light green, not glaucous or 

 the slender stem slightly so, 18 inches high, 3 - 20-flowered : leaves narrowly 

 linear-lanceolate, 6 to 15, more or less verticillate, 3 or 4 inches long : flowers on 

 short (6 lines long or less) and strongly recurved pedicels, yellowish with more or 

 less of purplish brown ; segments concave, oblanceolate, spreading, 6 to 8 lines long, 

 with shallow nectaries: stamens 4 or 5 lines long; anthers oblong, unequal, Ii to 

 3 lines long: capsule 6-winged. Pacif. R. Rep. iv. 146. F. multiflora, Kell. 

 1. c., i. 57, apparently. 



Near Murphys, Calaveras County (Bigelow) ; Big Tree Grove, Torreij, Brewer. Distinguished 

 from the last by its more numerous smaller and lighter-colored flowers on shorter pedicels, the 

 segments less arched. 



6. F. atropurpurea, Nutt. Bulb of numerous thick scales, half an inch long 

 or less : stem usually slender, 8 to 15 inches high or more, 1 -6-flowered : leaves 6 

 to 20, scattered 011 the upper part of the stem or somewhat verticillate, 2 or 3 inches 

 long : flowers on slender pedicels, dull purple with more or less of yellowish green ; 

 segments 5 to 9 lines long, spreading, with obscure nectaries : stamens about 4 lines 

 long ; anthers 1 \ to 2 lines long : style slender : capsule acutely angled, broadly 

 obovate. Journ. Acad. Philad. vii. 54. 



In the Sierra Nevada from Placer County to the Columbia, and eastward to the Wahsatch. 



* * Styles connate and stigma shortly 3-lobed: flowers not spotted: capsule, 



obtusely angled. 



7. F. pluriflora,Torr. Bulb of large thick scales, a half-inch to an inch long: stem 

 stout, a foot high or more, 4 - 1 2-flowered : leaves 8 to 15, nearly covering the stem, 

 somewhat verticillate, narrowly lanceolate, 3 or 4 inches long : flowers nodding on 

 long pedicels, uniformly reddish purple ; segments somewhat spreading, 9 to 12 lines 

 long, oblanceolate ; nectaries obscure : stamens unequal, 6 or 7 lines long, shorter 

 than the style; anthers 2 lines long. Benth. PI. Hartw. 338; Baker, 1. c. 270. 



On the Upper Sacramento (Hartwcg), and on the Feather River, Fremont. Peculiar in the size 

 of its bulb. 



