152 THE FLORA OF THE ALPS 
A. albus, Mill.; flowers in a compact spike, stem 3-6 
ft., simple, leafless; Southern Switzerland, very rare 
(Valais, Monte Generoso), Pyrenees. A. vamosus, L.; 
stem 14-3 ft., branched above, flowers much smaller, 
in panicles formed of loose spikes; high; Pyrenees, 
Dauphiny. 
11. ANTHERICUM, L. 
Flowers white, in a lax terminal raceme, on a leafless 
scape springing from a tuberous root-stock; sepals and 
petals distinct, spreading ; leaves narrow. 
A. ramosum, L.; panicle branched, flowers distant, 
stem 13-2 ft., slender, leaves linear, channelled, shorter 
than the stem; mountain woods, frequent. A. Lzlago, 
L.; flowers larger (about I in.), raceme not branched, 
stem 4-18 in.; open hill-sides; Switzerland, Jura, 
Pyrenees. 
12. PARADISIA, Mazz. 
Flowers large, funnel-shaped, white, in a terminal uni- 
lateral raceme on a leafless scape; leaves very narrow ; 
ovary shortly stalked. 
P. Liliastrum, Bert. (Anthericum Liltastrum, L.) 
(Pl. 114); flowers very large (2 in.), milk-white, racemes 
2—8-flowered, leaves linear, as long as the stem, stem 
12-18 in.; alpine pastures, rare; Valais, Jura (Déle), 
Tirol, Carniola, Carinthia, Dauphiny, Pyrenees. 
13. ALLIUM, L. 
Flowers in umbels surrounded by a membranous 
spathe, on a usually leafless scape springing from a 
tunicated bulb; sepals and petals distinct; seed-vessel 
