LILIACEZE 155 
tary, radical leaf solitary, linear-lanceolate, flat, flower- 
stalks smooth; woods, not uncommon. G. Lzottardz, 
Schult. ; flowers 1-5, flower-stalks villous, bracts 2, oppo- 
site, radical leaves 1-2, tubular, bulbs 2; damp alpine 
pastures, frequent. G. pratensis, Schult. (stenopetala, 
Fr.); bulbs 2-3, without a common envelope, flowers 2-5, 
stalk glabrous, radical leaf solitary, linear; grassy places ; 
Switzerland, Tirol, Lombardy, local. G. a@rvenszts, Dum.; 
bulbs 2, enclosed in a common envelope, flowers 2-20, 
radical leaves usually 2, linear, channelled; fields and 
pastures, not uncommon. G. mznzma, Schult.; flowers 
2-5, perianth-segments acuminate, flower-stalk glabrous, 
bract solitary, radical leaf solitary, linear, bulbs 2; alpine 
pastures ; Switzerland, rare. G. saxatzlzs, Koch; flowers 
I—5, perianth-segments obtuse, radical leaves setaceous ; 
dry hills; Valais, rare. 
I5. ORNITHOGALUM, L. 
Flowers white or yellow, in racemes or corymbs, on a 
leafless scape springing from a bulb; stamens hypogy- 
nous, anthers dorsifixed ; sepals and petals distinct; leaves 
all radical, linear. 
O. nutans, L.; flowers large, white, with a green mid- 
rib to each perianth-leaf, 5-9 in a unilateral raceme, 
filaments 3-fid; lowland meadows and orchards. 0. 
pyrenaicum, L.; flowers greenish-yellow, smaller, very 
humerous, in an elongated raceme, filaments entire, 
dilated; mountain woods, frequent. O. umbellatum, L., 
Star of Bethlehem; flowers white, 5-20, crowded in a 
Short umbel-like raceme, filaments not 3-cleft; copses 
and fields, frequent. 
