

332 HEXANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Nartheciura. 



sero'tinum. A. Leaves flattish above, convex underneath : stalk with 



1 to 4 flowers : upper floral leaves decurrent, bent 



inw 



ards. 





Jacq . austr app. 38-£. hot. 793-Ray 17. 1. at p. 474- 



J. B. ii. 665. 1« 



Hoot oblong, covered with scales, the remains of dead leaves. 

 Stalk with :■ or » sheathing floral leaves, spear-shaped, very mi- 

 nute, alternate. No flower sheath. Petals with tawney lines and 

 yellow claws. Filaments not woolly. Linn. Bless, permanent. 



I am indebted to J. W. Griffith, Esq. of Gam near Den- 

 bigh, for the above specific character, and also for the following 

 description of this rare and almost inaccessible species. 



Plant from *• to 8 inches high. Root a club-shaped, bent bulb, 

 covered with white laminated membranaceous scales. Leaves 2, 

 strap-awl-shaped, very slender, bending downwards, often longer 

 than the stalk. Stalk with 3 or 4 floral leaves, spear- awl-shaped, 

 the upper ones decur rent, bent inwards, the lower ones sheathing, 

 slanting outwards. Flowers from I to 4, but most frequently 

 single. Petals o, oblong, expanded, permanent, veined, white 

 within, keel dull pink with a tinge of green. Gtrmen obscurely 

 triangular : summits triangular, lopped. 



Mountain Saffron. Saffron Spidemvcrt. On high mountains, 

 as on Snowden, and on the mountains in the neighbourhood of 

 Llanberrys on the west side of Trigvylchau. Ray.— On Crib y 

 Ddeseil rocks near Lanberris, in inaccessible situations, tare ; 

 also on the most inaccessible rocks above Lynn Id well, Caernar- 

 vonshire, very near Tull du in the greatest abundance. Hvds. 



P. June. 



ossiTragum. A. Leaves sword -shaped: filaments woolly. 



Nartheeium ossifragum. Huds. which see, 



I 



:alycula 7 tum.A. Leaves sword-shaped : cup 3-lobed : filaments not 



woolly j flowers with 3 pistils. 



Remarkable as a Liliaceous plant in having a cup. I n exter * 

 ml appearance it accords so exactly with the A. ossifragum, that 

 so far from removing it from that natural order, we are oblige 

 to place them in the same genus, notwithstanding its .^cornered 

 calyx, the absence of a stjle, the :) germens, and the naked fig- 

 ments. Linn 



Tofieldia palvstris* Huds. which see. 



NARTHE'CIUM. Bloss. 6 petals, permanent: 



style none : caps, egg-shaped : seeds tapering 



- * to each end. 





