shorter than stamens; nerve flesh-coloured. Claw of filaments obovate, 
densely papillose at'margin. Fruit very small. Sem much branched. 
Radical fibres swollen, the enlarged part obovate, only about twice as 
long as broad. 
Asphodelus microcarpus, Viv. excl. syn. Boiss. Fl. Cors. p. 5; Gren. 
et Godr. Fl. de Fr. iii. 228. A. ramosus, Woods, Tour. FI. p. 365. 
Hasirats.—(A.) Gathered by me on Mont Coudon, near Hyeres, 
May 7, 1868. (B.) Capsule of Asphodelus cerasiferus, Gay, gathered 
by my father, March 12, 1867, on Mont Mulacé, Mentone. (C.) Cap- 
sule of Asphodelus albus, Mill., from a specimen in M. Gay’s Her- 
barium, from Napoiéon -Vendée, collected by M. Pontarlier, July 5, 
1856. (D.) Collected near Monaco by my father; flowers, March 29, 
and fruit, January 10, 1867. 
Remarxs.— The three species of Asphodel here alluded to, form 
the subject of an excellent paper by M. Gay in the ‘ Annales des 
Sciences’ quoted above. They are, as he tells us, not only distin- 
guished by the characters already cited, but also by the districts which 
they inhabit. The small-fruited Asphodel (A. microcarpus, Viv.) loves 
the hot shores of the Mediterranean and its islands; the White As- 
phodel (A. albus, Mill.) usually chooses high alpine situations, or 
descends into the cooler plain-country of Western France; while the 
Cherry Asphodel (A. cerasiferus, Gay) prefers the mountains near 
the Mediterranean, where it can always be within sight of the olive- 
trees. I shall now give an abstract of the principal stations mentioned 
by M. Gay, either in his paper alluded to above or in a later, unpub- 
lished manuscript of 1856. When quoting from the latter, I shall place 
MSS. after the locality. Asphodelus microcarpus, Viv., is found in the 
Canary Islands, in Teneriffe, Palma, Lancerota (MSS.); Estremadura 
and Southern Portugal (MSS.), Cadiz, in Seville (MSS.), in Algeria, 
Tunis, Egypt, and Syria, on the shores of Asia Minor and of the Sea 
of Marmora, in the Ile des Princes, near Constantinople (Thuret (MSS.), 
Zante (MSS.), abundantly in Greece (MSS.), Fiume, and at Rome 
(MSS.). Along the Riviera, and as far as Marseilles, I only know 
of A. microcarpus, Viv., as being found in very small quantity near 
Monaco, abundantly on the [le Sainte Marguerite, at Auribeau (Ar- 
doino) and Agay, near Cannes, and in profusion about Hyéres. A. 
albus, Mill., is widely spread in the Sierra di Guadamarra, in the chain 
of the Alps, the Apennines, and even on the further side of the Adri- 
atic, but not reaching into Hungary, Servia, or Roumelia; amongst 
these mountains it ranges from the zone of the beech-tree to a maximum 
of 6500 feet ; it can grow near the sea-shore, as for example at Trieste ; 
in the neighbourhood of mountains at Nettuno, near Rome, and espe- 
cially in the south-west of France, where it reaches its extreme northern 
limit in latitude 49°. From Marseilles to Genoa, Asphodelus albus, 
Mill., seems to be not uncommon in the mountainous and alpine 
region. Asphoedelus cerasiferus, Gay, is wanting in the Canaries, and 
