156 THE FLORA OF THE ALPS 
TO. SCILDA,: bs. 
Flowers blue or rarely pink, few, in a short raceme, on 
a short leafless scape springing from a small bulb; sepals 
and petals distinct, spreading; filaments flattened; seed- 
vessel a 3-celled few-seeded capsule. 
S. bifolia, L. (Pl. 115); flowers 2-5 on erect flower- 
stalks, bracts 0, stem 4~8 in., glabrous, leaves 2, lanceo- 
late; woods and orchards, frequent. SS. zéalica, L.; 
flowers more numerous, each subtended by two linear- 
lanceolate bracts, stem 8-12 in., leaves 2-5, linear-lan- 
ceolate ; rare; Bern, Valais, Dauphiny. S. verna, Huds., 
Squill; raceme very short, few-flowered, each flower 
subtended by one linear-lanceolate bract, stem 8-12 in., 
leaves numerous, broadly lanceolate, recurved; high 
' pastures ; Pyrenees. 
Our English Blue-bell or Wild Hyacinth (Scclla nutans, 
Sm., Agraphis nutans, Lk.) occurs at low elevations in 
the Pyrenees, but is entirely absent from Switzerland. 
17. MUSCARI, Tourn. 
Flowers very small, blue, globose, in a dense raceme 
on a leafless scape springing from a small bulb; 
perianth-leaves all united below; stamens attached to 
the middle of the corolla-tube, filaments very short. Not 
alpine. 
M. comosum, Mill., Grape-Hyacinth; racemes at first . 
dense, afterwards much elongated, flower-stalks hori- 
zontal, longer than the flower, many of the flowers often 
sterile, stem 12-18 in., leaves channelled; grassy slopes ; 
Southern and Western Switzerland, Pyrenees. JV. dotry- 
