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The key to the various subgenera here given is essentially Baker's in his monograph in Jour. Linn. Soc. 14:251 (1875); it rarely happens that the botanical and horticultural interests agree in using such simple and obvious characters as those of the bulb and style. The nectaries or glands are less useful and reliable, but they help to explain the natural groups in this varied genus.
The key to the various subgenera here given is essentially Baker's in his monograph in Jour. Linn. Soc. 14:251 (1875); it rarely happens that the botanical and horticultural interests agree in using such simple and obvious characters as those of the bulb and style. The nectaries or glands are less useful and reliable, but they help to explain the natural groups in this varied genus.
F. agrestis, Greene. Bulbs very deep-seated: sts. 1-1 ½ ft.: lvs. 8-12, oblong-lanceolate to linear-lanceolate: fls. 3-8, on abruptly recurved pedicels, yellowish green, with prominent midnerve on each segm. Calif.—Said by Purdy to occur in 2 forms, one a dainty plant a few inches high with fls. having light green or yellow base- color and heavily lined with brown (Mendocino Co.): the other a foot or two kill and similarly marked, so fetid as to be called "stink bells" (edge of .San Joaquin Valley, Contra Costa Co.). Probably not in cult.—F. askabadensis, Mich. St. about 3 ft.: upper lvs. linear-lanceolate, whorled: fls. 5-8, hanging amongst the uppermost lvs.. about 1 in. long, bell-shaped, pale yellow-green. Cent. Asia. B.M. 7850. G.C. III. 31:238; 45:184. Gn. 01, p. 256. G.M. 45:745. R.H. 1903:180. J.H. III. 44:293. F. S. R. 1:134.— F. conica, Hort. Lvs. in a rosette: fls. bell-shaped, pale yellow outside and bright yellow inside. Greece.—F. pontica, Wahl. St. tall, 1 ½ ft., leafy at middle, the lvs. broadly lanceolate, lower ones opposite: fls. yellow-green, margined and tipped red, the segms. bearing nearly orbicular nectaries. Asia Minor. Gn.W. 21:407.—F. tuntiina, Heldr. St. 8-10 in.: lvs. long and glaucous: fls. 4-6, bell- shaped, about 1 in. across, intense dark maroon. Greece. Gn.W. 23:435.—F. ziihnii, Hort. Fls. bell-shaped, rather large, brown, checkered with green inside and streaked with yellow outside.
Wilhelm Miller.
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