LiLiACE^. (lily family.) 785 



brownish ; pedicels longer than capsules, stiff, jointed at middle, the 

 lower clustered; divisions of perigouium oblauceolate, capsule obovate, 

 .007 to .01 long — Summer — Cassius and Amanus to Aintab, and 

 Marasli, 



1 1 1 Stem leajless, or leafy only toward iase. 



5. A. Damasceua, Boiss. (D 1 or more; root-stock short, thick, 

 with fine fibres; stem stout, ending in a spiked raceme, .3 to .4 long, 

 rarely branched. Leaves near the root, crowded, linear-triquetrous, 

 subulate-acuminate, margins scarcely rough. Bracts silvery, lanceolate, 

 acuminate, longer than pedicels; pedicels clustered, jointed above 

 middle, half as long as flower, becoming elongated to twice or thrice 

 the length of capsule ; divisions of perigonium linear-oblong, with dark 

 midrib; capsule obovate-triquetrous, .01 long — April to June — Mid- 

 dle to subalpine zones of mountains east of Jordan: Antilebanon; 

 Damascus plateau to Aintab, and northward. 



6. A. rccurva, Post. @ (Bull. Herb. Boissier, Vol. III. p. 16G). 

 .3; leaves all radical, not dense, linear, overtopping base of raceme, 

 strongly nerved, margins smooth, or scarcely roughened, base scarious- 

 dilated. Stem w^avy, ending in a loose, simple or 1 -branched raceme; 

 bracts deltoid at base, suddenly contracted into a cusp, subulate, half 

 as long as flowering pedicels; pedicels solitary, jointed above middle, 

 spreading in flower, recurved and twice to thrice as long as capsules in 

 fruit ; divisions of perigonium linear, white with a green midrib; cap- 

 sule oJoM^^e-^Zi^^'JiVy^^^, .008 long — May to September — Between Irbid 

 and Bu^rah (Hauran) ; near Antioch. 



4. EREMURUS, M. B. Eremurus. 



Perigouium funnel-shaped, tubular-campanulate or rotate, the 6 

 divisions more or less connate at base into a short urn, sometimes 

 somewhat irregular. Filaments 6, hypogynous, induj^licate or straight 

 in bud. Anthers fixed above base, often incurved, all alike. Ovary 

 o-celled, with 2-4 ovules in each cell; style filiform, often declined; 

 stigma dot-like. Capsule membranous-leathery, loculicidally 3-valved. 

 Seeds acutely triquetrous, with winged angles — Herbs, with root- 

 stocks and clustered root-fibres, strap-shaped root-leaves, naked stems, 

 and a simple raceme of small, yellowish, funnel-shaped flowers. 



E. §pectabilis, M. B. If .8 to 1; neck fibrous. Leaves appearing 

 with flowers, half as long as stem, .3 to .4 long, .01 to .015 broad. 

 Ptaceme .1 to .2 long; bracts lanceolate, long-tapering, ciliate, longer 

 than pedicels; pedicels not jointed, erect in flower, about twice as long 

 as perigonium, in fruit thickened, stiff, curved upward; divisions of 

 perigonium, linear-oblong, at length convolute, .01 long, filaments 

 twice as long as perigonium; capsule globular, one-half to one-third as 

 long as pedicel — April and May— Subalpine Lebanon and Antilebanon. 



5. AEEIUM, L. OxNiO]^. Bu>-iiL 



Perigonium G-cleft, campanulate or spreading, the divisions 1- 

 nerved, connate at base or distinct. Stamens more or less coherent to 

 base of sepals, and often connate with one another at base. Anthers 

 fixed by the middle of their dorsal surface. Ovary free, sessile, 3-celled, 



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