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LILIACEiE. 



Adobe hills in" upper Vaca Valley, Jepson, 1885; Sweeny Creek, 

 Solano Co., Piatt, 1898; upper Sacramento Valley on the Sierran side. 

 Feb. The segments are usually deeper colored or longitudinally lined 

 at base and often also with a longitudinal and very narrow brown 

 band running from base to apex. Fleshy tap-like roots are often 

 formed below the bulb, similar to those occurring on Hookera capitata. 



2. F. coccinea Greene. Scarlet Fritillaria. Stems slender, 

 10 to 18 in. high; leaves 3 to 7, narrowly linear, 2£ in. long; 

 flowers 1 to 4, campanulate-funnelform, scarlet, evidently mottled, 

 f to 1£ in. long; segments recurving at tip, gland near base of 

 segment small, narrowly oblong, 3 lines long. 



Hood's Peak, Sonoma Co., Bioletti; Mt. St. Helena, Jepson; 

 Ukiah, Purdy. Last of Apr. and first of May. There seem to be 

 forms identical with this, save that the color characters are those of 

 the next; hence this species may need to be made a variety. 



3. F. mutica Lindl. Mission Bells. Rice-root Lily. Scales 

 few or none, the lower portion of the solid bulb covered with round- 

 ish bulblets like rice-grains; stems 1J to 2£ ft. high, glaucous; radical 

 leaf 1 ft. long or less, 3 to 5 in. wide, usually not present in the 

 second (flowering) season; stems leafy above the base only; leaves 

 2 to 6 in a whorl (the whorls mostly 2 or 3), or the upper alternate, 

 lanceolate or linear, 4 in. long or less; bracts similar but smaller; 

 raceme 3 to 17-flowered; pedicels less than 1 or 2 in. long, often 

 recurved after anthesis; perianth campanulate, dark-purple or green- 

 ish, conspicuously spotted or checkered, 6 to 13 lines long; segments 

 broadly oblong or narrowly ovate, distinctly crisped or erosulate- 

 margined, usually concave-carinate towards the base, the outer often 

 broader; gland greenish, broadly lanceolate, extending from the base 

 ^ or f the way to the apex; capsule with 8 broad wings at base and 

 apex, 6 to 8 lines long. 



Shady woods of the Coast Ranges; the most common species: 

 Berkeley; Vacaville; Sonoma. Mar. The var. gracilis (F. lanceo- 

 lata Pursh var. gracilis Wats.) has very small flowers and narrower 

 more acuminate segments; anthers scarcely longer than broad. — 

 Corte Madera (Marin Co.), northward to Ukiah, Purdy. 



4. F. lanceolata Pursh. Checker Lily. Bulbs of few thick 

 scales £ in. long; stem \\ to 2 ft. high; leaves 6 to 9 in 2 or 3 whorls 

 on the upper part of the stem, ovate-lanceolate, 2 to 4 in. long; 

 pedicels 1 in. long or less; perianth broadly campanulate, dark-purple 

 mottled with greenish-yellow, 1 or mostly 1} to 1£ in. long; segments 

 ovate to oblong, deeply concave, with a very large ovate-lanceolate 

 gland in middle of concavity; gland deep-green, sharply defined, 

 often with minute black dots; stamens 6 to 8 lines long; anthers 1£ to 

 2^ lines long; capsule broadly winged, less than 1 in. long. 



Vicinity of the ocean from Lake Pilarcitos, San Mateo Co., Davy; 

 Inverness, Jepson; Mendocino Co., Bolander, and northward. 

 Feb.-Mar. 



5. F. biflora Lindl. Black Lily. Stem stout, £ to 1£ ft. high, 



