Editing Fritillaria (section)

== Etymology ==

When Noël Capperon, an [[Orléans]] apothecary,<ref>{{cite book|last=Dubois|first=François Noël Alexandre|title=Histoire du siège d'Orléans|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oQ5BAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR19|year=1894|publisher=H. Herluison|page=19|quote= Dès les premières années du XVI° siècle, le pharmacien orléanais, Noël Capperon, découvrait, sur les bords du [[Loiret]], la jolie fritillaire |language=fr}} ()</ref> discovered ''F. meleagris'' growing in the [[Loire]] meadows in 1570, he wrote to [[Carolus Clusius]], describing it, and saying that it was known locally as ''fritillaria'', supposedly because the checkered pattern on the flower resembled the board on which [[checkers]] was played. Clusius believed this to be an error, in that {{wikt-lang|la|fritillus}} is actually the Latin name for the box in which the dice used in the game were kept,{{sfn|Yates|1859}} not the board itself.{{sfn|Ellacombe|1895}}{{sfn|Clusius|1583}}{{sfn|OED|2017}}{{sfn|Botts|2017}}

Some North American species are called "'''mission bells'''".