192 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
SPECIES I-—LLOYDIA SEROTINA. Reich. 
Pirate MDXXI. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. X. Tab. CCCCX4. 
Billot, F\. Gall. et Germ. Exsice. No. 1769. 
Anthericum serotinum, Linn. Sm, Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 793 ; and Engl. Fl. Vol. IV. 
p- 150, 
Bulb very small, covered as well as the lower part of the stem with 
numerous fuscous sheaths. Leaves filiform, semicylindrical-trigonous, 
those on the stem short and slightly dilated below. Flowers solitary, 
or 20nastem. Perianth rotate-cupshaped, not attenuated below; the 
leaves with a transverse nectariferous pore a little above the base. 
Capsule turbinate, 3-lobed, scarcely longer than broad. 
On rocky ledges. Very rare, and confined to the Snowdon range 
of mountains in Carnarvonshire, whence I have specimens labelled 
“Clogwyn Ddu” and “Glyder Ffawr.” 
England. Perennial. Early Summer. 
Bulb so minute that it does not bulge out the sheaths which sur- 
round it and the base of the stem sufficiently to indicate where it ends 
and the base of the stem begins. Radical leaves 1 or 2, very slender, 
3 to 9 inches long. Stem 2 to 8 inches long with 2 to 4 rather 
short leaves, and usually a single terminal erect flower, but some- 
times with a second flower beneath the terminal one. Perianth spread- 
ing while in flower, about § inch long, oval-elliptical, obtuse, yellowish- 
white, with three dull reddish lines on the outside of each leat. Capsule 
about the size of a pea, surrounded by the withered stamens and pistil. 
The ripe seeds I have not seen: Smith describes them as “angular, 
wrinkled, and of bright chestnut colour.” 
Mountain Lloydia. 
French, Loydie tardive. 
Trise J1.—HY ACINTHE 2. 
Perianth leaves free or more or less coherent. Seeds globular, with 
the testa commonly black. Rootstock a tunicated bulb, or very rarely 
a scaly bulb. Leaves usually all radical and sheathing at the base. 
GENUS XI—GAGEA. Salisb. 
Perianth coloured, yellow, widely funnelshaped-rotate ; perianth 
leaves 6, free, subpersistent and marcescent, more or less spreading, 
without a nectariferous pore at the base; the outer leaves herbaceous 
