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LILY FAMILY LILIACEAE 



1725. Dwarf Fritillary Fritillaria pudica 



Rare. Found near Sierraville; 1-6 flowered. Flowers yellow, sessile. 



1725a Pink Fritillary Fritallaria plnriflora 



Foothills in adobe soil. Solano and Yolo Counties, Upper Sacramento Valley. 

 Six to ten inches high. 



1726. Scarlet Fritillary Fritillaria coccinea 



Mt. Hood and Xapa Ranges and north to Edin Valley. Stems slender, ten to 

 eighteen inches high. 



1727. Checker lily Fritillaria lanceolata 

 Rice-root lily 



Near sea in shady woods, San Mateo to Pt. Reyes and northward. The bulbs 

 live just one year. Dark purple mottled with greenish yellow. 



1728. Mission Bells Fritillaria lanceolata var. 



Floribunda 

 Three to many flowered. Dark purple or greenish conspicuously spotted or 

 checkered. 



1729. Mission Bells Fritillaria lanceolata 



var. gracilis 

 Corte Madera and northward to Xapa Valley. Very small flower, narrower. 



1730. Black Lily Fritillaria biflora 

 Chocolate Lily 



San Luis Obispo and southward. Stout 1-2 to 1 1-2 ft. high. Greenish or 

 mostly dark purple or purple lined. 



1731. Stink Bells Fritillaria agrestis 



Antioch in grain fields. Odor very obnoxious. Possibly introduced in grain 

 seed. Stems 1 to 1 1-2 ft. high. 



1732. White Fritillary Fritillaria liliacea 



Open rocky hilltops. San Francisco, Vallejo, Olema. Stems 3-8 in. high ; to 5 

 flowered. Flowers dull white. 



1733. Small Flowered Fritillaria parviflora 



Fritillary 

 Occasional in pine woods below 6,000 ft. altitude in the Sierra Nevada. Flow- 

 ers purplish brown with yellow markings. Plant 1 1-2 to 3 ft. high. Very smooth. 



1734. Fawn Lily Ervthronium Calif ornicum 

 "Easter Lily" 



Abundant in Napa Valley and northward. March. Flowers nodding, 

 creamy white; base of segments orange. 



Ervthronium Hartwegii 

 Sierra Nevada foothills. Flowers white or cream with orange or yellow 

 base. 



1735. Dog-Tooth Violet Ervthronium purpurascens 

 Glacier Lily 



Sierra Nevada, Placer to Plumas Counties, above 4,000 feet. Leaves not 

 mottled. Flowers very small, light yellow. 1-8, crowded. 



Ervthronium revolutum 

 Leaves lightly mottled. Flowers white or light pink. Mendocino and 

 Humboldt Counties. 10-15 miles from coast in a strip four miles wide and 

 northward. 



