. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Genus 7. LILY FAMILY. 505 7. FRITILLARIA [Tourn.] L. Sp. PI. 303. 1753. Bulbous herbs with simple leafy stems, and rather large nodding solitary or racemed leafy-bracted flowers. Perianth mostly campanulate, 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
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Genus 7. LILY FAMILY. 505 7. FRITILLARIA [Tourn.] L. Sp. PI. 303. 1753. Bulbous herbs with simple leafy stems, and rather large nodding solitary or racemed leafy-bracted flowers. Perianth mostly campanulate, 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; style slender or filiform, 3-lobed or 3-cleft, the lobes stigmatic along the inner side. Capsule obovoid or globose, 6-angled, loculi- cidally dehiscent. Seeds numerous, flat, obovate or suborbicular, margined or winged. [Latin, from fritillus, 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. Type species: Fritillaria pyre- naica L. i. Fritillaria atropurpurea Nutt. Purple Fritillaria. Fig. 1263. F. atropurpurea Nutt. Journ. Acad. Phila. 7: 54. 1834. Bulb ¥ in diameter or less. Stem 6'-is' high, slender, leafless below; leaves linear, alternate, ses- sile, i¥-sk' long, ii"-2" wide or less; flowers 1-6, purple or purplish green and mottled; perianth- segments narrowly oblong, obfusish, 6"-io" long; peduncles i'-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, Montana and California. June-July. 8. TULIPA (Tourn.) L. Sp. PI. 305. 1753. Bulbous herbs with erect leaf-bearing stems and large solitary (rarely
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