LiLiACE^. (lily family.) 807 



gonium - February to May — Palestine to subalpiue and alpiue Leba- 

 uon, Damascus, Aleppo, and northward. 



3. G. foliosa, Presl. 11 Hoot-leaves 2, linear; stem-leaves 2, 

 alternate or rarely opposite, r/lubrous or ciUate, the lower forming a sort 

 of spathe. Flowers 1-few, corymbed ; pedicels simple or forked and 

 then fm-nished with linear bracteoles, villous; perigonium yellow, 

 divisions linear -eUong, obtuse, elongated iu fruit, glabrous or villous at 

 base; filaments two-thirds as long as perigonium; capsule ohcordate, 

 about half as long as perigonium - February to May — Common. Too 

 near the last, probably only a variety of it. 



4. O. Boliemica, Zauschn. 21 Tufted. Root-leaves sctaccous- 

 filiform, longer than stem. Stem low, 1-3-flowered; lloral-leaves al- 

 ternate, lanceolate, acuminate, pedicels short, villous; divisions of 

 l^ei'igomum oNouf/sj^atlndate, oUuse, yellow, with paler margins; fila- 

 ments three-quarters as long as perigonium ; capsule obovate-oblong — 

 Spring — Less common than the last two. 



* * Bulb 1, erect, enveloped by tunics, the radical leaf from the tip, and 

 the floicering stem lateral, near the base. Seeds flattened. 



5. Cr. reticulata, Pall. % Tunics numerous, produced into a 

 more or less elongated, reticulated sheath; stem more or less exserted from 

 sheath, 1-flowered or with 2-5-umbelled flowers. Leaves linear to fili- 

 form, crisp-puberulent, the upper somewhat whorled under the umbel. 

 Pedicels thickish, much longer than flower; divisions of perigonium 

 lanceolate, acute to acuminate, many-striate, green with yellow margins ; 

 filaments half as long as perigonium; capsule obovate-oblong, obtuse, 

 two-thirds as long as perigonium — Spring — Common. 



Var. teiiiiifolia, Boiss. Leaves filiform, often circinnate-re- 

 curved — Sinai ; subalpine Lebanon ; Antilebanon Plateau ; Palmyra. 



6. O.'Damasceiia, Boiss. et Gain. 2f TmAc^ produced, ii do short 

 lobes, scarcely fibrous, at length separated into fibres ; stem more or less 

 elongated, forked, 2-4-flowered. Leaves puberulent, linear; floral 

 leaves lanceolate. Pedicels elongated, stiff iu fruit ; divisions of peri- 

 gonium oblong -linear, obtuse, 5-G-striate, green, yellow-margined; fila- 

 ments two-thirds as long as perigonium; capsule oblong-club-shapcd, 

 truncate, somewhat shorter than perigonium — Spring — Common. 



7. G-. cliloraiitlia, M. B. % Tunics scarious, produced along 

 the base of the stem, and there separated into fibres ; radical leaf filiform, 

 longer than stem; stem-leaves alternate, filiform to narrow-lanceolate, 

 usually ciliate-margiued. Pedicels thickish, l-o, simple or 2-0-flowered, 

 bracteoled at the forks; divisions of perigonium oblong, obtuse, green, 

 yellow-margined; filaments half as long as perigonium; capsule ellipti- 

 cal-oblong— Spring — Near Jerusalem. 



8. G. Per§ica, Boiss. % Tunics scarcely produced along base of 

 stem; stem slender, flexuous, leafless below, forked-corymbose above; 

 radical leaf elongated; lower stem-leaf lanceolate, clasping, flat, 7nany- 

 ?ie;'i;.2^, usually ciliate, the others short, filiform; bulb/cts in a.viU 1-5, 

 •onaU, nahed. Pedicels capillary, twice to thrice as long as flower: 

 divisions of perigonium .OOG long, oblong-lanceolate, obtusish; filaments 

 somewhat shorter thau perigonium; stigma capitatc-trilobed; capsule 

 club-shaped triquetrous, stipitate, truncate — Spring — Alpine Lebanon 

 ubout and above Cedars. 



