386 LILIACEJE. [Ti:up,\. 



Stem 1-2 ft., terete, flexuous. Flowers 2 in., fragrant, bright yellow ; seg- 

 ments elliptic-lanceolate. Filaments woolly at the base. Capsule 1 in., 

 acute above and below. DISTRIB. Europe. 



14**. LIL'IUM, L. 



Bulb of many imbricate fleshy scales. Leaves all cauline, not sheathing, 

 alternate or whorled. Flowers few or many, large, solitary, erect or 

 drooping ; perianth-segments free, caducous," erect below, recurved or 

 revolute above ; nectary median, elongate. Stamens hypogynous or on 

 the base of the segments, filaments subulate ; anthers fixed above the 

 base in front, versatile, bursting inwards. Ovary 6-grooved ; style terete, 

 stigma obtuse ; cells many-ovuled. Capsule erect and seeds as in Fritil- 

 laria. DISTKIB. Temp. N. regions ; species 40. ETYM. Unknown. 



L. MAR'TAGON, L. ; leaves petioled obovate-lanceolate whorled, upper 



linear, flowers erect racemose. Purple Martagon Lily. 



Copses, naturalized near Mickleham, Surrey ; fl. Aug.-Sept. Bulb large, 

 scales white. Stem 2-3 ft., terete. Leaves 3-8 in., chiefly in a few 

 whorls of 6-8, subacute. Flowers 1^ in. diam., drooping; bracts ^-1 in., 

 green, linear-lanceolate ; pedicels 1-5 in., stout, curved ; perianth-segments 

 oblong, revolute beyond the middle, pale purple or white, with dark raised 

 papillae ; nectary with thick raised borders. A ntlm-s red-brown. Capsule 

 1 in. DISTRIB. Europe from Mid. France southwards and eastwards. 



15. COL'CHICUM, L. MEADOW SAFFRON. 



Corm coated. Leaves all radical, usually vernal. Bracts spathaceous. 

 Flowers autumnal, solitary or fascicled, subsessile on the top of the conn, 

 erect, crocus-like ; perianth-tube very long, slender, limb campanulate ; 

 segments 6, oblong, in 2 series. Stamens on the mouth of the perianth, 

 included, filaments filiform ; anthers oblong, fixed above the base in front, 

 bursting inwards, afterwards resupinate. Ovary deeply 3-grooved ; styles 

 3, wholly free, filiform, tips recurved, stigmas decurrent on their inner 

 faces ; cells few- or many-ovnled. Capsule membranous, 3-grooved to the 

 axis, septioidally 3-valved at the top. Seeds subglobose, testa rugose, 

 'fuuicle fleshy ; embryo minute, excentric, remote from the hilum. 

 DISTRIB. Europe, N. and E. Asia; species 20. ETYM. Classical. 



1. C. antumna'le, L. ; leaves lanceolate, sheaths stout long large. 

 Meadows, from Westmoreland and Durham to Dorset and Surrey, rare and 

 local, naturalized in Scotland; S. and Mid. Ireland; fl. Aug.-Oct. Corm 

 large, oblique, compressed ; scales shining, chesnut. Leaves flat, 6-10 in. , 

 nerves close-set. Flowers appearing in succession ; ovary subterranean ; 

 perianth-tube 2-6 in. ; limb 1J in., pale purple. Anlltert ^ in., yellow. 

 Capsule 1-2J in., shortly peduncled, ellipsoid, acute at both ends. Seed* 

 many, small, pale brown. DISTRIB. Europe from Denmark southwards. 

 Yields the famous drug. Flowers when vernal greenish and imperfect. 



16. TOFIEL'DIA, Hudson. 



Rootstock shortly creeping. Leaves radical, equitant, ensiform. Scape 

 slender. Flowers racemed, small, green ; bracteoles 3, miuute connate ; 



