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Fritillaria monantha Migo (9). Forests, moist places on limestone hills, flood lands; 100 - 1600m. Anhui, Henan, Hubei, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Zhejiang. Very leafy plant, leaves whorled, the uppermost sometimes coiled. Flowers large, narrowly bell-shaped, square at the base, tessellated with purple or brownish; nectary large and projecting; style with long branches, 3 - 8mm long. Southwest China This has a Himalayan flora, which goes north into Sichuan and Gansu west of the Sichuan plain. Eleven species: it is still not clear how distinct some of these species are: in the case of the species close to F . cirrhosa, the flowers seem to get smaller and narrower towards the north and west, ending in the deserts of Qinghai. Fritillaria fusca Turrill (20). Moist and gravelly places, open flood lands; 5000 - 5100m. S Xizang, north of Llasa. A very small, broad-leaved plant with blackish flowers. Fritillaria delavayi Franchet syn. F . bhutanica Turrill (19). Sandy and gravelly places, flood lands; 3400 - 5600m. Qinghai, Sichuan, Xizang, Yunnan, Bhutan, Sikkim. Short stems with overlapping, broad, greyish leaves; greyish, rounded flowers, slightly tessellated inside: recorded from Bai Ma Shan and from Lijiang. Fritillaria sinica S. C. Chen (8). Open thickets, hill grasslands; 3400 - 3600m. W Sichuan; on Erlang Shan. Short stems to 30cm, with few (3 - 8) leaves, mostly opposite. Flower solitary, tessellated, like F . latifolia. Fritillaria dajinensis S. C. Chen (18), syn . F . lixianensis Y. K. Yang & J. K. Wu. Thickets, meadows; 3600 - 4400m. NW Sichuan. Flower yellowish-green, dark spotted near the base, very narrowly campanulate; style undivided. (Flower like F . ehrhartii.) Fritillaria crassicaulis S. C. Chen, syn . F . omeiensis S. C. Chen (7). Forests, bamboo thickets, alpine grasslands; 2500 - 3400m. SW Sichuan (Mt Omei), NW Yunnan (Zhondian plateau, Lijiang). Leafy plants with 10 to 18 lanceolate leaves in 3 or 4 whorls of 3 to 6. Flowers large to 5.5cm, green, tessellated with brown (Yunnan), or yellow, lightly tessellated (Sichuan). Fritillaria cirrhosa D. Don (4). Forests, alpine thickets, meadows, flood lands, moist places; 3200 - 4600m. Gansu, Qinghai, Sichuan, Xizang, Yunnan. Leaves narrow, the upper in a whorl of 3, coiled at the tips. Flowers green or yellowish, tessellated with brown, sometimes very heavily tessellated so as to appear black, 9
sometimes all pale yellow. Nectary usually ovate, 2 - 5mm long. Fritillaria sichuanica S. C. Chen, syn . F . cirrhosa var. ecirrhosa Franch. (3). Hill thickets, grassy slopes; 2000 - 4000m. S Gansu, S Qinghai, W Sichuan. Similar to F . cirrhosa, but with slightly smaller, narrower flowers and upper leaves usually solitary, without coiled tips. Nectary 4mm long, 2mm wide, tear-shaped. Fritillaria yuzhongensis G. D. Yu & Y. S. Zhou Fritillaria unibracteata (6). Grassy slopes; 1800 - 3500m. Gansu, Henan, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Shanxi. Very similar to F . cirrhosa, but with slightly smaller (2 - 4cm), usually yellowish-green flowers; nectary round, 2mm across. Fritillaria unibracteata P. K. Hsiao & K. C. Hsia (17a). Thickets, meadows; 3200 - 4700m. S Gansu, SE Qinghai, NW Sichuan. Similar to F . przwalskii, but flowers small, blackish; sometimes grows with F . przwalskii, but sometimes they are in separate populations. Var. longinectaria (17b) Thickets, meadows; 3200 - 4700m. NW Sichuan. Chang xian. Differs in having a very long, narrow nectary, 6-11 cm long, deeply impressed. Fritillaria przwalskii (16)Thickets, grasslands; 2800 - 4400m. S Gansu, E Qinghai, NW Sichuan (above Woolong). Leaves narrow, all alternate. Flowers yellow, slightly tessellated, narrow bell-shaped; style divided at apex for 1mm. Nectary small. Fritillaria davidii Franchet (24) Betula alnoides forests, grassy slopes, loose peaty soil with ferns, rocky moist places along streams, mossy cliff ledges; 1600 - 2600m. W Sichuan. Bulb solid, with numerous rice-grains. Leaves growing direct from bulb in autumn, flowering in spring; stem leafless except for 1 or 2 small bracts. Flowers large, purplish-red at the base, yellow at the apex, regularly scattered with fat glands. Nectary small and round; capsules unknown. Footnote This article was first published in Journal 27 of The Fritillaria Group of the Alpine Garden Society (2010) and is reprinted here by kind permission of the Society. 10
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Page 25 and 26: 18 David Parsons and his wife Mary.
Page 27 and 28: Sandy Best, a well-known Canadian p
Page 29 and 30: Lilium polyphyllum phenological stu
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Page 33 and 34: Close up of Lilium polyphyllum flow
Page 35 and 36: ground bulb at different phenophase
Page 37 and 38: John Muir’s eloquent description
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Lilium rubellum on Gorin-Daira, Shi
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Above , Example flowers of the natu
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Above, Stable Lilium japonicum popu
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First there was the Rose Phase. I d
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A group of Lilium carniolicum in th
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throw stones to attract my quarry
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a week or two away from flowering.
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74 Timothy Whiteley, OBE, DL, JP Ca
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78 The beginnings of a national col
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‘Angela’ ‘Rosemary’ collect
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supplemented with a section of non
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6 Chinese lilies (Ch) from species
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ecause they looked alike. In the mo
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stands out is that the tepals do no
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Above, Prosartes hookeri two year o
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and flowers dangle. Streptopus, or
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Lilium mackliniae 96 A guide to bas
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A Ryirube hybrid Lilium primulinum
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lily and does well in my garden. I
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Lily seed Lily seed is transparent
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Mike Kune and Wade Hall (right) sco
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Lilium pyrophilum bulbs. divided in
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108 In search of Lilium ledebourii
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A bulb and scales of Lilium ledebou
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Lilium duchartrei situations was no
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Fritillaria affinis 91 albidiflora
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