158 THE FLORA OF THE ALPS 
20.. FRITILLARIA,, L, 
Flowers large, solitary or few, bell-shaped, drooping, 
on leafy scapes ; sepals and petals distinct ; anthers dorsi- 
fixed; styles 3; leaves narrow. } 
F. Meleagris, L., Fritillary, Snake’s-Head (Pl. 116); 
flowers solitary, yellow or variegated with purple, 14 in. 
long, stem 10-18 in., leaves linear; damp meadows; Neu- 
chatel, Jura, Savoy, Carinthia, Styria, Pyrenees. /. pyre- 
natca, L..; flowers yellow- or purple-brown, petals larger 
than the lanceolate sepals, leaves lanceolate, broader than 
in the last; Pyrenees. F. delphinenszs, Gren.; resembling 
the last, but sepals oblong, stem-leaves numerous ; high ; 
Dauphiny. /. zzvolucrata, All.; perianth-leaves all oblong 
and submucronate, leaves linear-lanceolate, mostly oppo- 
site, a whorl of three beneath the flower; Dauphiny. 
Order LXXXIX.—JUNCACEZ. 
Flowers small, bisexual, in axillary or terminal cymes ; 
sepals and petals 3 each, distinct, brown or green; sta- 
mens 6, rarely 3; ovary superior; stigmas 3, feathery; 
seed-vessel a I-—3-celled capsule; stem smooth, pithy; 
leaves very narrow. 
Tt. JUNCUS, i. 
Sepals keeled; ovary 3-celled with axile, rarely 1-celled 
with parietal ovules. Very glabrous plants, with usually 
cylindrical leaves and pithy stem. 
Most of the lowland English species of Rush are found 
also in Switzerland, viz.:—/. effusus, L. (communis, 
