TulipaceceJ] 



CALIFORNIA.— SUPPLEMENT. 



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Ord. LXII. TULIPACEiE. DC. 



1. Fritillaria mutica (LindL); cauli basi longe nudo apice racemoso multifloro, foliis 

 inferioribus verticillatis a lata basi longe angustatis ecirrhosis, floribus secundis tessellatis 

 nutantibus basi obtusis bracteis triplo brevioribus, pedunculis brevissimis recurvis. LindL 

 in Bot. Reg. sub t. 1663. 



This " has very much the aspect of F. verticillata, but the leaves are not cirrhose, and the flowers are 

 greenish-purple, spotted like F. Meleagris, growing- in long racemes." LindL — In our specimens the pedicels 

 can scarcely be called " very short," being often three quarters of an inch long, and the leaves are lanceolate 

 linear and acuminated, but not with a broad base. The style is, in this and in both the following, trifid, as in 

 the genuine species of Fritillaria. 



2. F. liliacea [LindL); caule stricto apice racemoso basi folioso foliis oblongo-lanceo- 

 latis inferioribus verticillatis superioribus alternis, floribus secundis concoloribus cernuis 

 basi angustatis, pedunculis erectis bracteis longioribus, capsula oblonga apice rotundata 

 basi mutica. LindL I. c. 



" Closely allied to F. alba of Nutt., from which it differs in its broader leaves, and differently shaped cap- 

 sule. It is a most remarkable plant, with the habit of a lily : its flowers are apparently pale yellow, narrow at 

 the base, and not unlike those of Lilium pudicum." Lindl. — Of this we possess two forms : one with the 

 flowers scarcely narrowed at the base, and about as obtuse there as in F. mutica, while the pedicels are con- 

 siderably longer than the bracteas : the other, as Lindley says, has flowers very similar to Lilium pudicum, 

 being remarkably narrowed at the base, but the pedicels are in every instance much shorter than the bracteas, 

 while the accompanying specimens in fruit resemble the first variety. All have the pedicels erect, except im- 

 mediately under the flower, where they are recurved. 



3. F. biflora [LindL) ; caule basi nudo apice bifloro, foliis verticillatis alternisve oblongo- 

 lanceolatis versus apicem caulis deficientibus, floribus pendulis subcylindraceis concolori- 

 bus, pedunculis bracteis brevioribus. LindL I. c. 



This " resembles F. tulipifolia in habit, but differs in its two-flowered stem, and numerous leaves which 

 are either alternate or verticil! ate." Lindl. — Our specimens, in habit as well as in the colour of the flowers, 

 approach so closely to F. Kamtschatccnsis, that they are scarcely to be distinguished but by the leaves of 

 the perianth being quite destitute of the curious crested veins, almost peculiar to that species, and which are 

 represented at Tab. 193. A. of the Flor. Bor. Am. 



1. Erytlironium grandiflorum (Pursh.) ; foliis oblongoseu elliptico-lanceolatis vix punc- 

 tatis, pedunculo 1-paucifloro, sepalis lanceolatis valde acuminatis fere ab ima basi reflexis, 

 stigmate tripartito. — /3. giganteum ; cauli 2-5 floro, floribus flavis. Hook. Flor. Bor. Am. 

 II. p. 1820. — E. giganteum. LindL in Bot. Reg. sub. t. 1786. 



Hab. /5. Blue Mountains, Snake Country ; Tolrnie. 



Dr Lindley distinguishes the var. /3., his 27. giganteum, from the type of the species, by the irregularly branch- 

 ed scape, the leaves of the perianth reflexed only from the middle, and the stigma 3-lobed, not 3-partite : but 

 there is no difference whatever in the two last points, and as to the first, these are insensible gradations from 

 a single to a several (lowered scape. 



