LiLiACE^. (lily family.) 793 



long, divisions ovate, obtuse ; filaments about as long as perigonium, 

 connate, triangular-lanceolate, tapering ; style longer than perigonium 

 — Spring — Sandy places and deserts of southern Palestine and et-Tih. 



31. A. €a§&iuin, Boiss. 21 .3 to .3; bulb .ovate, with greyish 

 tunics, at length densely pitted. Scape slender, flexuous, leafy below ; 

 leaves narrowly linear, puberulent or glabrescent, scarcely shorter than 

 scape; spathc half as long as pedicels, 2-4-lobed; umbel 7-12-flowered, 

 pedicels once and a half to thrice as long as flowers ; perigonium white 

 to pale pink, campanulate, divisions oblong-linear, obtuse; lilamcnts 

 half as long as perigonium, connate at base, lanceolate, subulate-taper- 

 ing at tip; style subulate, longer than filament — May and June — 

 Lebanon at Cedars; Buqa'; top of Mt. Cassius; Akher Dagh. 



32. A. Zebaclaneiisc, Boiss. et Noe. % .3 to .G; bulb ovate; 

 tunics tawny. Scape leafy below, leaves lanceolate-linear^ acute, flat, 

 shorter than scape, smooth or roughish at margin; spathe ovate, short- 

 tapering, about as long as pedicels ; umbel 0-many-flowered, pedicels 

 scarcely longer than flowers; perigonium white, divisions oblong to 

 elliptical, obtuse; filaments two-thirds as long as perigonium, connate 

 at base, lanceolate gradually tapering; style somewhat longer than 

 anthers — May and June — Subalpine to alpine Lebanon and Amanus. 



33. A. Carineli, Boiss. 2X .1 to 1.3; bulb ovate, with thickish, 

 white tunics. Scape as thick as a goose quill, smooth, leafy for a 

 quarter of its height; leaves linear, elongated, .01 to. 015 broad at base, 

 folded, long-tapering, shorter than scape, hirsute and ciliate on both faces, 

 sheaths velvety with retrorse hairs ; umbel many-flowered, globular, 

 pedicels nearly four times as long as flowers ; spathe shorter than umbel, 

 parted into ovate-inflated, setaceous-caudate lobes; perigonium cream- 

 colored, .01 long, hemispherical -campanulate, divisions oblong, obtuse, 

 concave, nearly free ; filaments adherent to base of perigonium, longer 

 than its divisions, lanceolate-tapering; style exserted — May — Rocky 

 places, Carmel. 



34. A. IVeapolitauuui, Cyr. % .5 to .6; bulbs globular, with 

 scarious tunics. Scape triquetrous, leafy at base; leaves lorate or 

 broad-linear, often .02 broad, tapering; spathe 1-valved, ovate, tapering, 

 shorter than pedicels ; umbel many-flowered, .05 to .1 broad, pedicels 

 thrice as long as flowers; perigonium white, .015 broad, S2}readinff, 

 divisions ovate-eHiptical, obtuse; filaments half as long as perigonium, 

 adnate at base, lanceolate, subulate-tapeiing at tip ; style longer than 

 stamens — Spring — Coast to middle mountain regions. 



35. A. Sclmberti, Zucc. If .3 to .6; bulb ovate, .02 to .03 

 long. Scape terete, hollow, ia fruit .008 thick, leafy only at base; 

 leaves spreading, lorate-lanceolate, .01 to .025 broad, flat, more or less 

 ■icavT/, rough at margin; spathe short, 2-3-valved; umbel becoming .3 

 broad in fruit, 20-200 flowered, usually polygamous, pedicels ma?iy 

 times as long as flowers, at length very unequal, stiff, the fertile shorter, the 

 sterile three to four times as long, all club-shaped at tip ; perigonium 

 pink, divisions connate at base, lanceolate, acute, twice as long as 

 stamens, rigid, spreading after flowering; filaments connate at base, 

 gradually tapering into a subulate cusp— April and May— Fields; 

 common along the coast of southern Palestine, and interior tablelands. 



36. A. nigrum, L.' 1( .5 to 1; bulb ovate to globular, .03 to .05 

 long. Scape .01 thick in fruit, terete, hollow, leafy only at neck; 



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