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on the back. Stamens 6, adhering to the base of the perianth leaves; 
anthers inserted by their base upon the filaments. Style trigonous; 
stigma minute, 3-lobed. Capsule ovoid-trigonous, loculicidally 3-valved. 
Seeds few or several, subglobose ; testa rather soft, pale-yellowish. 
Herbs with bulbs consisting of few scales. Leaves radical, lmear- 
lorate. Scapes with an involucre of leaflike bracts at the base of a 
few-flowered subumbellate corymb of yellow flowers, opening in the 
forenoon and only in fine weather. 
The name of this genus was given in honour of Sir Thomas Gage, a Suffolk 
botanist and cultivator of flowers. 
SPECIES I—GAGEA LUTEA. Ker. 
Pirate MDXXTI. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. X. Tab. CCCCLXXVII. Fig. 1045. 
Ornithogalum Inteum, Linn. Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 21; and Engl. Fl. Vol. II. 
p. 142. 
Bulb ovate, subglobular, solitary, usually producing numerous 
minute bulbules at the base. Radical leaves commonly solitary, 
strapshaped, rather abruptly pointed, 3- to 5-ribbed. Stem leafless, 
with the exception of 2 unequal subopposite bracts immediately below 
the umbel. Peduncles glabrous. Perianth leaves oblanceolate-oblong, 
glabrous on the back. 
In bushy places and pastures and woods. Rare, but widely dis- 
tributed, extending from Somerset, Oxford, and Sussex, north to 
Moray, Forfar, and Perth. 
England, Scotland. Perennial. Spring. 
Bulb flowering when about the size of a large pea; only one enclosed 
in the yellowish coats, but usually there are a number of bulbules 
about the size of sago grains at the base. Radical leaf solitary, 6 to 
18 inches long, usually a little exceeding the flowers, slender at the 
base, which sheaths the stem, gradually enlarging upwards until beyond 
the middle, deep green, slightly shining, with 3, 5, or even 7 strong 
ribs, and fainter intermediate ones. Stem 4 to 14 inches high, with- 
out any leaves except those of the involucre, of which the longest 
about equals the pedicels or slightly exceeds them, the second falls 
short of them, and occasionally there is a third leaf which is still 
shorter than the second. [edicels 1 to 2 inches long, in a corymb 
with so short a rachis that it quite resembles an umbel. Perianth 
leaves about } inch long, yellow within, green with yellow margins 
on the outside, which are much broader on the three inner and 
narrower leaves than on the three outer. The capsule I have never 
seen. 
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