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0. unifolium Gawl. Sandy heaths ; frequent, locally abundant ; 

 3-5. [I. K. Fl. p. 161.] III. i. and ii. ! Reaches high up 

 mountains. 



0. uvibellatum L. var. longihracteatum Wk. Bushy or sandy 

 places, and in woods ; common ; 2-4. I. Levant ! Near Mon- 

 key's Cave ! Europa Flats ! Above Haynes's Cave ! III. ! 

 Reaches top of El Frayle ridge ! 



Scilla verna Huds. var. major Boiss. (*S. Eamhurei Boiss.). 

 Rough slopes and heathy places ; frequent, but rather local ; 2-4. 

 Taller than type, flowers many, racemose, not subcorymbose, 

 anthers blue. I. Rock Gun ! Below Signal Station ! III. i. 

 Almoraima! Second Pine Wood ! ii. Algeciras, Lc»i. ! Palmones 

 Pinar and Heath ! iii. Guadarranque Marshes ! 



S. liemispharica Boiss. Rough slopes on Rock, and marshes 

 in Spain ; locally very common ; 3-4. I. Mediterranean Steps ! 

 Governor's Cottage ! North-west slopes ! III. ! Rare in i. ! 



S. monophylla Link (S. immila Brot.). "Woods ; locally abun- 

 dant ; 1-4. III. i. Queen of Spain's Chair ! Cork Woods ! 

 ii. Mountains ! 



S. autumnalis L. Sandy places ; abundant ; 9-10. I. ! III. ! 

 Not seen in II., but I have not been there in its flowering time, 

 and no doubt it occurs. 



Urginea Scilla Steinh. (S. maritima L.). Rough and grassy 

 slopes ; common ; 9-10. I. ! III. ! Rare in woods ! 



[Endymion canqxinulatus Wk. {Scilla camp. Ait.) is said by 

 Kelaart to form large beds by the road to San Roque, but it is a 

 sylvestral species not likely to occur there, and not confirmed.] 



Uroj^etalum serotiimim Ker. Sandy fields ; rare on Rock, 

 frequent in Spain ; 3-4. The flowers are always olive-brown or 

 greenish, but often turn quite vermilion on drying. Is this 

 the origin of U. fulvus Rouy, which is described as having 

 fulvous or orange flowers ? I. Mediterranean Steps ! Levant ! 

 II. ! III. ! 



Muscari comosum Mill. Sandy and grassy fields ; common ; 

 3-4. I. Below Victoria Battery and above Alameda, Lcm. 

 Europa Flats, Gai)t. Luck. II. ? Abundantly, K. From Kelaart's 

 mention of the races I think North Front is meant, but I have 

 seen it in neither. III. ! Rare in ii. ! 



Simethis hicolor Kunth. Open woods and bushy hills ; rather 

 locally common ; 2-5. III. i. Queen of Spain's Chair and else- 

 where ! ii. Mountains 1 



[Aloe arboresceiis Mill, is only planted.] 



Asphodelus fistulosus L. Dry sandy soil, rocks, and old walls; 

 locally frequent ; 2-4. I. ! North Front ! II. ! III. i. S. Carbo- 

 nera, D. iii. Salt Pans ! 



A. microcarpus Viv. Rocky slopes, fields, and woods ; very 

 common ; 1-4. Always spreading-branched, bracts pale, rather 

 narrow, filaments papillose to middle, claws square or twice as 

 long as broad, fruit ovoid, 5 lines long by 4 lines wide, central 

 keel as prominent as angles. I. ! III. I 



\A. serotinus W.-Dod in Journ. Bot. 1914, p. 13. Woods and 



