LILY FAMILY. 







8. Lilium tigrinum Andr. Tiger l 

 (Fig. icia) 



Lilium tigrimttm Andr Bat Hep. 9: errata, ifc* 



Bulb solitary, globose, about i S' in dimeter. 

 composed of numerous oblong UnrroU- 

 pressed scales. Stem stoat, parpir or Marly 

 black, white-pubescent above, -s ull. leafy 

 nearly to the base; leave* lanceolate, all alter- 

 nate, glabrous or slightly pubescent, 4'-^ loaf, 

 5"-io" wide, the upper bearing liUckub tmlb- 

 lets, of 3 or 4 scales, in their axils, which some- 

 times emit roots while attached to the plant; 

 flowers 5-25, orange-red, nodd:: long. 



perianth sc^mt-nu lanceolate, papillor 

 curved, purple-spotted. 



;<_'! ::..:n . nr and MataadHMtttS. 



Native of China and Japan Suit. 



7. FRITILLARIA L. Sp. PI. 803. 1753. 



Bulbous herbs with simple leafy stems, and rather large nodding solitary or 

 leafy-bracted flowers. Perianth mostly campanulatc, deciduous, of 6 separate and nearly 

 equal oblong or ovate segments, each with a nectar-pit or spot at the base. Stamens 6, hy- 

 pogynous; filaments filiform or somewhat flattened; anthers linear or oblong. Ovary 

 nearly or quite sessile, 3 celled; ovules numerous in each cavity; stxlc slender or filiform. 

 3-lobed or 3-cleft, the lobes stigtnatic along the inner side. Capsule obovoid or globose. 6- 

 angled, loculicidally dehiscent. Seeds numerous, flat, obovate or suborbicuUr. margined or 

 winged. [Latin, irora/ritilltts, a dice-box or chess-board, in allusion to the form or to the 

 checkered markings of the perianth in some species.] 



About 50 species, natives of the north temperate 

 zone. Besides the following, about 12 others occur in 

 western North America. 



i. Fritillaria atropurpurea Nutt. Purple 

 Fritillaria. (Fig. ion.) 



Fritillaria atropurptirea Nutt. Journ. Acad. Thila. 7: 

 54- 1834- 



Bulb ^' in diameter or less. Stem 6'-is' high, 

 slender, leafless below; leaves linear, alternate, ses- 

 sile, i %'-$%' long, i^'-a" wide or less; flowers 

 1-6, purple or purplish green and mottled; peri- 

 anth-segments narrowly oblong, obtusish, 6 // -io / ' 

 long; peduncles J^'-i' long; stamens one-half to 

 two-thirds as long as the perianth; style 3-cleft to 

 about the middle, the lobes linear; capsule erect, 

 acutely angled, 5 // -6 // high. 



North Dakota to Nebraska, Wyoming and California. 



June -July. 



8. ERYTHRONIUM L. Sp. PI. 305- 

 J Low herbs, from deep membranous-coated corms, sometimes propagated byoftl 



Ve stem simple, bearing a pair of broad or narrow unequal leave*. 



Ae leaves thus appearing basal. Flowers large, nodding, 



'ome western species. Many plants are flowcrless and i-leaved. these leave.* 



longer petioled than those of the stem. Perianth-segments sep..- 



oblanceolate, deciduous, with nectariferous groove, and sometimes 



