LILIACE®. 179 
Stem arching, with strongly elevated lines. Leaves glabrous, sub- 
distichous, ascending in two directions at an obtuse angle with each 
other, oval or elliptical, semiamplexicaul, submembranous, glabrous, 
glaucous beneath. Peduncles from the axils of most of the leaves 
except the very lowest and a few of the uppermost, 1- or 2- (rarely 
3- or 4-) flowered, branched only in the lower half. Flowers pendu- 
lous, widely-cylindrical, attenuated at the base, not contracted near 
the middle. Filaments glabrous. 
Var. a, genuinum. 
P. vulgare, Boreau, Fl. du Centr. de Ja Fr. ed. iii. Vol. II. p. 614, 
Peduncles 1-flowered, or rarely one or two of them with 2 flowers, 
from the peduncle being forked from the very base. 
Var. 8, intermedium. 
P. intermedium, Boreau, l.c. p. 615. 
Peduncles mostly 2- or 3-flowered (sometimes 4-flowered), branched 
about the middle or a little below it. Whole plant usually larger and 
stouter than var. «; the leaves commonly broader, closer together, 
and rather thicker in texture. 
In woods and on the ledges of limestone cliffs. Rare. I have 
specimens of var. a from Gloucestershire; Settle, Yorkshire; Kyloe 
Crags, Northumberland; and a doubtful form from Leigh Wood, 
Somerset: var. & from Colerne, Wilts. lesides this, the plant has 
been reported from Dorset, Hants, Kent, South Wales, and the Lake 
district; but I am unable to say which of the forms occur there: 
indeed, possibly in some of these counties P. multiflorum has been 
mistaken for it. 
England. Perennial. Early Summer. 
Very similar to P. multiflorum, but usually smaller, with the stems 
conspicuously angular, from having raised lines on it which are most 
developed in the upper part; the leaves usually thicker and more am- 
plexicaul; the peduncles often 1-flowered and always few-flowered ; 
the perianth larger (about 1 inch long), more narrowed at the base, 
and not evidently constricted above the ovary, and with shorter and 
broader deltoid teeth: the berry is precisely similar, but scarcely so 
large. 
Of var. @ I received roots from Mr. T. B. Flower; these, when 
oe beside P. intermedium from M. Boreau, sent me by M. 
enormand, so closely resembled the French plant, that where the 
two ran together by extending their creeping roots, it was impossible 
to say which was which. Mr. J. Tatham was kind enough to send me 
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