170 LILIACE^E. Fritillaria. 



8. F. pudica, Sprengel. Bulb of numerous very small rounded scales : stem 3 

 to 8 inches high, 1 - 6-flowered : leaves 3 to 8, linear to narrowly oblanceolate, 

 scattered or somewhat verticillate, 2 to 4 inches long : flowers usually solitary, nod- 

 ding, yellow or orange and tinged with purple, with very obscure nectaries ; seg- 

 ments 5 to 9 lines long, oblong-spatulate, obtuse, somewhat spreading : stamens 

 nearly equalling the style, 6 to 8 lines long ; anthers 2 lines long : capsule oblong to 

 subglobose, 6 to 12 lines long. Syst. ii. 64. Lilium jmdicum, Pursh, Flora, 228, 

 t. 8. Amblirion pudicum, Eaf. ; Torr. in Stansb. Eep. 396, t. 9. Theresia pudica, 

 Klatt. 



In the mountains from Carson City to British Columbia and eastward to Montana and Utah. 

 Flowering in early spring. 



20. ERYTHRONIUM, Linn. 



Perianth broadly funnelforni, deciduous, of 6 distinct nearly equal lanceolate seg- 

 ments, mostly strongly recurved from near the base, yellow (varying to white or 

 purplish), the inner usually auriculate below and callous- toothed on each side of a 

 nectariferous groove. Stamens 6, hypogynous, with rather short slender filaments, 

 and linear anthers attached by the base and laterally dehiscent. Ovary nearly ses- 

 sile, many-ovuled : style slender, entire with short 3-lobed stigma, or 3-cleft and the 

 linear stigmas at length revolute, deciduous. Capsule inembranaceous, obtusely tri- 

 angular, loculicidally 3-valved. Seeds oblong-obovate, ascending in 2 rows in each 

 cell, with brown rugulose testa somewhat loose at the apex. Stem simple, low, 

 lax, from an oblong membranous-coated conn, bearing near the base a pair of closely 

 approximate flat dilated net-veined leaves ; flowers showy, solitary or few in a naked 

 raceme or rarely subumbellate. Baker, Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 296. 



An American genus, with the exception of a single species which ranges through Europe and 

 Asia. Three other species are found in the Atlantic States. 



1. E. grandiflorum, Pursh. Corm narrow, often 2 inches long : leaves not 

 mottled, always closely approximate, oblong-lanceolate, acute or acutish and with 

 broad and usually short petioles, 3 to 6 inches long by one or two wide : flowers 

 solitary or often in a raceme of 2 to 6 or more, yellow or cream-color with a more or 

 less orange base ; segments lanceolate and somewhat acuminate, strongly recurved, 

 1 to 2 inches long : filaments long and slender ; anthers 3 to 5 lines long : ovary 

 and capsule narrowly oblong, narrowing to a short stipe ; capsule an inch long or 

 more. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1786 ; Eegel, Gartenfl. 1876, t. 874, fig. 6. 



Var. (?) Smithii, Hook. Flowers large, tinged with purple or rose-color : fila- 

 ments often short and bi-oadly dilated : ovary broader and more obtuse. Fl. Bor.- 

 Am. ii. 182. E. revolutum, Smith, Rees Cyc. E. grandiflorum, var. revolutum, 

 Baker, 1. c. 



The various forms referred to this species are imperfectly known and need investigation. The 

 typical form, common in Washington Territory and Oregon, appears also to be found in Northern 

 California. The purplish variety, collected in the redwoods of Mendocino (Bolander, n. 4709), is 

 probably identical with the form of the plant described by Smith and first discovered by Menzic.s 

 at Vancouver Island, and may prove distinct. A variety with smaller flowers than the type, but 

 apparently otherwise the same (var. minar, Morren, Belg. Hort. 1876, 109, t. 6), is common in 

 the mountains of Utah and Colorado and northward. What is called var. aHrifluruin, Hook. 

 (Regel, Gartenfl. 1874, t. 767, and figured as E. giyanteum in Bot. Mag. t. 5714), of Washington 

 Territory, is described as having mottled leaves and very large white flowers with a yellow and 

 orange base. The fruit and bulbs as well as the fresh Howers of these varieties need to be com- 

 pared. 



2. E. Hartwegi, Watson. Bulb small (6 to 8 lines long), ovate-oblong : leaves 

 often more or less distant, apparently mottled, oblanceolate : flowers solitary, or 2 

 or 3 in a sessile umbel, light yellow and orange ; the lanceolate acuminate segments 



