LILIACE^. (LILY FAMILY.) 803 



four times as long as flowers, and somewhat longer than lanceolate, 

 acuminate bracts, to twice as long. Divisions of perigonium oblong, 

 with a broad green band, obtuse, the outer mucronulate ; filaments 

 half as long as perigonium; capsule ovate-oblong, .012 long — April — 

 Fields and stony places; middle to alpine mountain regions and interior 

 plateaus. 



9. O. tciiuiroliiiiii, Guss. ^2^ .1 to.:J; bulb shnjjlej ovate, .01 to 

 .02 long. Leaves glabrous, Jili/orm, erect, grooved, nearly or quite 

 destitute of a ichite hand, as long as scape or longer. Corymb few- 

 flowered ; pedicels spreading, the lower twice to live times as long as 

 flowers, and once to twice as long as lanceolate-subulate bract ; divisions 

 of perigonium oblong to linear-oblong, witli a green band as broad as 

 margin, the outer three obsoletely mucronulate ; filaments half as long 

 as perigonium; capsule obovate, somewhat retuse, the ribs acute, 

 approximated in pairs — Spring — Hills; coast to middle and alpine 

 regions and interior plateaus. 



Var. tricliopliyllum, Boiss. Leaves setaceous— Near Beer Sheba. 



10. O. Ilmbriatum, Willd. If .1 to .2; bulb simple, orate. 

 Leaves 3-8, linear, .002 to .007 broad, often recurved, clothed with 

 spreading or retrorse hairs, longer than hairy scape. Corymb loosely 

 8-15-flowered, the lower pedicels twice to thrice as long as flowers, and 

 as. long as or longer than the lanceolate, glabrous bracts; divisions 

 of the perigonium oblong-linear, obtuse, with a broad, green band; 

 filaments scarcely half as long as perigonium; ribs of capsule approxi- 

 mated in pairs, narrowly winged — Spring — Middle to subalpine 



•mountain zones. 



Var. ciliatiiiu, Boiss. Only margins of leaves ciliate — Jeru- 

 salem; Nazareth; Nusairy mountains. 



11. O. iieiirosteg'iuiii, Boiss. et BI. If .1 to .13; bulb ovate- 

 conical. Leaves 4-5, linear-lanceolate, long-tapering at base and tip, 

 .004 broad, longer than scape, retrorscly hispid. Raceme short, ovate, 

 5-7-flowered, pedicels scarcely longer than flowers, stifl;; bracts longer 

 than pedicel, lanceolate, acuminate, many-nerved, white-margined; 

 divisions of perigonium .012 long, oblong-linear, obtuse, pale green at 

 back, many-striate, narrowly lohite-margined ; filaments one-third as 

 long as perigonium; ovary top-shaped, subulate — Summer — .Turd 

 Tannurin. 



14. LILHIME, L. Lily. Zenho^p 

 Perigonium deciduous, campanulate or revolute, divisions C([ual, 

 oblanceolate, the claw;s furnished with a longitudinal, nectariferous 

 groove. Stamens C, somewhat perigynous, anthers versatile. Ovary 

 sessile, o-celled, style long, undivided, stigma 3-angled. Capsule obo- 

 vate, hexagonal. Seeds numerous, discoid — Stemmed herbs, with 

 scaly bulbs. 



fj. canclidiiiii, L. 11 1 or more; bulbs ovoid, yellow, .1 long. 

 Root-leaves in winter 0-8, oblanceolate; lower stem-leaves spreading to 

 ascending, oblanceolate, wavy, rather obtuse, upper apprcssed, lanceo- 

 late, acute, much smaller, llaccmc thyrsoid ; pedicels erect, nodding 

 at tip, with bracts and sometimes bractcolesatbasc; perigonium white, 

 .05 to .1 long, sweet-scented, funnel-campanulate, divisions oblanceo- 

 late; anthers yellow — INEay — Rocks; Kcsruwun (Lebanon). 



