Descr. Root, a small, pale-coloured, roundish bulb, 
scarcely so large as a Hasel-nut. Leaves, solitary in the 
wild specimens, generally two in the cultivated ones ; linear- 
lanceolate, striated, grooved, attenuated at both extremi- 
ties, ten to twelve inches long. Scape much shorter than the 
leaves, rounded, bearing an umbel of six to eight bright 
yellow flowers on slender stalks. Bracteas four to five, 
membranous, forming an imperfect involucre. Perianth of 
six leaves, spreading above, united below by the filaments 
of the stamens, deep yellow within, paler and with a brown 
streak on the outside, below greenish. Filaments six, large, 
"Sere deeply bifid, alternately smaller: Anther oblong, 
xed between the segments of the filament. Germen oval- 
triangular, stipitate: Style nearly as long as the germen: 
Stigma glandular, of three deflexed lobes. 
Fig. 1. Base of the Perianth, showing the Stamens. 2. Two of the Sta- 
mens. 3. Pistil :—magnified. 
