TulipacecE,'] 
CALIFORNIA.— SUPPLEMENT. 
397 
Ord. LXII. TULIPACE^. DC. 
1. Fritillaria mwiica (LiW/.); cauli basi longe nudo apice racemoso multifloro, foliis 
inferioribus verticillatis a lata basi longe angustatis ecirrhosis, floribus secundis tessellatis 
nutantibus basi obtusis bracteis tidplo 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 “ ver}" 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. 1. c. 
“ Closely allied to F. alba of Nutt., from w'hich 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. 1. c. 
This “ resembles F. tulipifolia in habit, but differs in its two-flowered stem, and numerous leaves which 
are either alternate or verticillate.” Lindl. — Our specimens, in habit as well as in the colour of the flowers, 
approach so closely to F. Kamtschatcensis, 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. Erythronium grandflorum [Pursh.); foliis oblongoseu elliptico-lanceolatis vixpunc- 
tatis, pedunculo 1-paucifloro, sepalis lanceolatis valde acuminatis fere abima basi reflexis, 
stigraate tripartito. — giganteum; cauli 2-5 floro, floribus flavis. Hook. Flor. Bor. Am. 
11. p. 1820. — E. giganteum. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. sub. t. 1786. 
Hab. /3. Blue Mountains, Snake Country ; Tolmie. 
Dr Lindley distinguishes the var. p>., his if. 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 flowered scape. 
