If SB LILIACE^. (LILY FAMILY.) 



Var. vireus, Boiss. Spathe somewhat longer; flowers reddish- 

 green — Wadi-es-t;^iMf (Northern Lebanon). 



6. A. $»i>]iaeroccplialiiiii, L. U .G to .8; bulb usually having 

 bulblets, and membranous tunics. Scape leafy to middle; spathe at 

 length lobed ; umbel globular the outer pedicels as long as flower, the 

 inner longer; perigonium purple to pink, ovate-campanulate, divisions 

 ovate-oblong, obtuse, smooth or roughish along keel ; the fertile cusp of 

 the inner three filaments as long as the sterile or longer — Summer — 

 Middle to subalpine mountain zones, 



Var. viri<lo-aII>idiiin, Tineo. Flowers whitish. 



7. A. desceiideiis, Fl. Grsec. 21 .6 to. 8; bulb not having bulb- 

 lets, tunics striate. Scape leafy to middle; spathe ovate, cuspidate, 

 shorter than umbel; umbel globular, at length having the outer pedicels 

 dejtexed, and deaj'ing sterile floicers, the central at length elongated, erect ; 

 perigonium purple, narrow -campanulate, divisions connivent, oblong- 

 linear, obtuse, smooth, the outer keeled; filaments all exserted, the 

 fertile cusp of the inner three shorter than the sterile — Summer — 

 Vineyards and hillsides; coast to middle mountain zones. 



§. A. Makmeliauuin, Post. If (Plantoe Postianae, III., 18.) 

 .1 to .15 ; tunics of bulb membranous, the outer blackish. Scape terete, 

 leafy to above middle, shorter than leaves; spathe soon torn, ovate, 

 abruptly cuspidate, shorter than umbel; umbel globular, .015 to .025 

 across, pedicels imequal, shorter than flower, or about as long ; peri- 

 gonium umbilicate at base, ovate, somewhat coriaceous, divisions ovate, 

 (chitish with a red midrih and scarious margin, minutely denticulate, 

 long mucronate ; fertile cusp of inner filaments included, one-fifth as 

 long as filament, one-third as long as sterile cusps, the latter as long 

 as perigonium; anthers reddish-brown ; ovary globular, style included 

 — July — Near snow-line, Eijal-el-'Asherah (Northern Lebanon) 2800 m. 



9. A, calyptratum, Boiss. If .3 to. 5; tunics of bulb brownish, 

 produced into elongated, loose sheaths. Scape leafy to its lower third 

 or middle, longer than linear leaves; spathe membranous, red, hood- 

 shaped, abruptly narroioed into a cusp longer than itself, at length cut 

 around and torn, deciduous; spathels white, torn afc the base of pedicels; 

 umbel loose, 10-15-flowered, pedicels unequal, once and a half as long 

 as flowers; perigonium ^r/izY^, short-campanulate, divisions ovate-oblong, 

 oljtuse, with a greenish, somewhat roughish keel, ending in a mucro ;> 

 filaments dilated, glabrous, the fertile cusp of the inner three some- 

 what exserted, the sterile thrice as long — June — Alpine ucgions of 

 Mt. Cassius. 



10. A. Cilicicuni, Boiss. % .2 to .4; bulb small, .01 long, 

 tunics produced along base. Scape slender, leafy to middle, leaves 

 narrowly linear, .003 broad; spathe rery short, soon splitting into linear 

 divisions ; umbel small, .01 to .025 in diameter, with slightly unequal 

 pedicels as long as flower or a little longer; perigonium oblong-campan- 

 ulatc, yurpjle, divisions keeled, the l-eeU of the outer, ollong, acutish ones 

 icaity; fertile cusp of the inner three filaments half as long as the 

 subexserted sterile ones — June — Jebel-ed-Duruz (Haurun) ; middle 

 to subalpine and alpine zones of Antilebanon, Amanus, Aintab, and 

 Akher Dagh, and northward. 



