186 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
curved upwards; stigma short, indistinctly 3-lobed. Capsule tri- 
gonous or heaagonal, with 6 furrows, 3-celled, loculicidally 3-valved. 
Seeds numerous, in two rows in each cell, horizontal, discoid, flat on 
both sides, margined or winged ; testa rather soft, yellowish-brown. 
Herbs with scaly (rarely coated) bulbs. Stem leafy. Flowers 
large, showy, solitary or racemose or subverticillate, erect or drooping. 
Leaves sessile, alternate or verticillate. 
The derivation of the name of this genus appears to be from a Celtic word signify- 
ing whiteness, 
SPECIES I-LILIUM PYRENAICUM. Gouan. 
Prare MDXVU. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Hely. Vol. X. Tab. CCCCLIII. Fig. 992. 
Billot, F). Gall. et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1078. 
L. pomponium, Linn. (ex parte). Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. vi. p. 342 (non Aust. Plur.). 
Bulb subglobular, acute, with rather thin narrowly oblong-lanceolate 
acute scales. Stem stout, glabrous, leafy nearly to the top. Leaves 
scattered, crowded ; the lower ones elliptical-strapshaped; the upper 
strapshaped, acute, glabrous except on the margin and principal ribs, 
beneath which are single rows of white papillae. Leaves at the base 
of the terminal umbel broadly strapshaped, in a whorl of 3 to 5. 
Flowers pendulous, 2 to 8, two or three of them in a terminal umbel, 
generally with a few axillary ones arranged in a raceme below those 
in the umbel. Perianth leaves oblong-lanceolate, connivent for less 
than half their length and revolute for the remaining part, yellow with 
purplish-black elongate raised papillae. Style rather thick, twice as 
long as the ovary, curved upwards. 
Not native. Extending for about fifty yards on a hedge-bank on 
each side of the road at Sheepwash Farm, between South Molton 
and Mollond, North Devon, about a mile and a quarter from the latter 
place. Discovered by Mr. George Maw. 
[England.] Perennial. Summer. 
Bulb flowering when about the size of a small apricot, with brittle 
fleshy yellowish-white or pale yellow scales. Stem 1} to 4 feet high. 
Leaves very numerous, not whorled, except at the base of the 
peduncles, bright green, paler beneath, 2 or 4 inches long, spreading, 
the uppermost ones ascending; peduncles 2 to 6 inches long, curved 
immediately below the apex, so that the flower is drooping, but straight 
in fruit, so that the latter is erect. Flowers 14 inch across, the 
upper two-thirds of the perianth segments recurved so as to give the 
flower the appearance of a flattened yellow bull. Anthers chocolate ; 
