170 



LILIACE^E. Fritillaria. 



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

 to 8 inches high, 1 - G-llo\veml : leaves 3 to 8, Ihiear to narrowly oblanceolate, 

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

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

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

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

 subglobose, G to 12 lines long. — Syst. ii. 04. Lilinm pudicum, Pursh, Flora, 228, 

 t. 8. Amblirion pudicum, IJaf. ; Torr. in Stansb. IJep. 390, t. 9. Theresia piuUca, 

 Klatt. 



In the mountains from Carson City to Biitish Cohimbia and eastward to Jlontana and Utah. 

 Floweiing in early spring. 



20. ERYTHRONIUM, Linn. 

 Perianth broadly funnelform, decitluous, of G distinct nearly equal lanceolate seg- 

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

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

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

 and linear anthers attaclied 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 mend)ranaceous, 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 corm, 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 f^enus, with the exception of a sinf^le species which ranges througli Europe and 

 Asia. Three otlier species are found in the Atlantic States, 



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

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

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

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

 less orange base ; i^egnients lanceolate and somewhat acuminate, strongly recurved, 

 1 to 2 inches long: iilaments long and slender; anthers 3 to b lines long: ovary 

 and capsule narrowdv oblong, narrowing to a short stii)0 ; ea])sule an inch long or 

 more. — Lindl. Bot. Beg. t. 1780 ; Kegel, Cartenfl. 1870, t. 874, iig. G. 



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

 ments often short and broadly dilated : .ovary broader and more obtuse. — Fl. Bor.- 

 Am. ii. 182. E. revolulum, Smith, Bees Cyc. E. yrandijhrum, var. revulutinn, 

 Baker, 1. c. 



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

 tyjjical form, common in Washington Territory and Oregon, apjieurs also to \)C found in Korthcrn 

 California. The jiurplish variety, collected in the redwoods of Mendocino (lUdiDuhr, n. 470l»), is 

 probably identical with tlic form of the jilant described by Smith and lirbt discovered by Menzies 

 at Vancouver Island, and may prove distinct. A variety witli smaller Howers than tlie type, but 

 apparently otherwise the same [war. viiiior, Morren, Belg. Hort. 1876, 109, t. 6), is common in 

 the mountains of Utah and Colorado and northward. What is called var. all/ijlonnn, Hook. 

 (Hegel, Oartenfl. 1874, t. 767, and figured as E. gujanlcum in Hot. Ma^,'. t. 5714), of Wa.sliiufjton 

 Territory, is descril)ed as liaving mottled leaves nntl very largo white Ilowers with a yellow and 

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

 pared. 



2. E, Hartwegi, Watson. Bulb small (G 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 



