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with pink, the segments frequently with a green spot close to the 
apex. 
The name of this genus is derived from the Greek Aevxdc, white, and toy, a violet. 
SPECIES I—LEUCOIUM A#STIVUM. Lin. 
Pirate MDV. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. IX. Tab. CCCLXII. Fig. 805. 
Billot, F\. Gall. et Germ. Exsicc. No. 3230. 
Leaves broadly linear-lorate, nearly flat, green, not glaucous, ap- 
pearing in winter before the flowers. Scape stout, ancipitate. Spathe 
1-valved, entire at the apex, nearly as long as the longest pedicels. 
Flowers 2 to 6. Perianth segments rhombic-oval, connivent into a 
wide bellshaped funnel. Style clavate-cylindrical, with a conical apex. 
Seeds soft, white, suborbicular, without a prominent caruncule. 
In wet meadows. Apparently native by the Thames, where it has 
been reported from the neighbourhood of Reading, the Isle of Dogs, 
and on the Essex shore opposite Woolwich, and at the south end 
of Dagenham Breach; I have seen it plentifully between the em- 
bankment and the river below Greenwich, opposite Blackwall, on 
the ground now occupied by the works of the Blakeley Gun Company, 
and behind the butts at Plumstead. In the old “ Botanist’s Guide,” 
it is said to be “a troublesome weed in pastures at Little Stoneham,” 
Suffolk; and in the same work it is reported to occur in a moist 
meadow at Upton, and in a peat-field at Dorney, Buckinghamshire. 
It was formerly found by the Avon near Stratford, and the banks of 
the Isis near Oxford. Its occurrence in Dorsetshire rests on old 
authority, and probably L. vernum may have been mistaken for it in 
that county. 
England. Perennial. Early Summer 
Bulb flowering when about the size of a nutmeg, with a whitish 
covering. Leaves and scape enclosed by a few scarious sheaths, 
appearing in the beginning of winter, linear-lorate, slightly channelled, 
straight, shining, green, } to 1 inch wide when full grown. Scape 
about as long as the leaves when in flower, 9 to 18 inches high, hollow, 
two-edged. Spathe at first subherbaceous, afterwards scarious, with a 
green point. Flowers 3 to 6, expanding in succession, erect in bud, 
drooping when expanded; the pedicels very short at first, afterwards 
much longer and drooping. Perianth segments about } inch long, 
rhombic-oval, acuminated into a small obtuse point, white, with conco- 
lorous veins, and a green spot immediately below the apex both without 
and within; when in flower the segments are connivent into a wide bell- 
