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flowers white, silvery, large, cyme dense; mountain 
woods, local. ZL. Szeberz, Tausch.; resembling sylvatica, 
but smaller, leaves more hairy; high. JL. spadicea, DC. ; 
cyme lax, flowers black-brown, leaves linear, bearded 
at the base; alpine pastures, frequent. L. lutea, DC.; 
leaves glabrous, linear-lanceolate, cyme spreading, flowers 
golden-yellow; alpine pastures, frequent. L. glabrata, 
Koch ; cyme lax, flowers black-brown with white margin, 
leaves shortly lanceolate ; dry; Tirol, Styria, Salzburg. 
C. Flowers in spikelets, forming a cyme, panicle, or 
umbel:—Z. spicata, DC.; spikes forming a drooping 
umbel, flowers dark brown, leaves linear; alpine pastures, 
frequent. L. multiflora, Lej. (including al/pzna, Hoppe, 
and nzgricans, Desv.); ceespitose, spikelets black-brown, 
forming an umbel, leaves linear, hairy ; alpine pastures, 
frequent. L. pedzformis, DC.; flowers forming an oblong 
drooping spike, leaves linear, stem 18-24 in.; Dauphiny, 
Mont Cenis, Pyrenees. 
Order XC.—MELANTHACEZ. 
Resembling Lz/zaceg, but root-stock a corm or creeping 
rhizome; anthers bursting laterally or outwardly. Dis- 
tribution similar. 
1. COLCHICUM, L. 
Flowers solitary or in clusters, springing from a fleshy 
corm; perianth with a very long tube; stamens 6; leaves 
all radical. (Closely resembling Crocus, but with a superior 
ovary.) 
C. autumnale, L., Meadow Saffron, Autumn Crocus ; 
VOL, TL L 
