LILlACEaS. (LILY FAMILY.) SQl 



6. S. bifolia, L. 2f Bulb ovate, large. Leaves 2, sheathing the 

 scape to its middle, nearly opposite or distant, linear-lanceolate, .004 

 to .015 broad, grooved, obtuse, spreading or recurved, as long as scape. 

 Scape .2 to .5 high, raceme 8-20-flowered, the lower pedicels 2-1 times as 

 long as flower; perigonium blue, divisions .008 to .01 long, oblong- 

 elliptical, obtuse; cells of ovary 5-6-ovuled; capsule globular, 

 obtusely 3-angled — Spring — Coast to alpine mountains and interior 

 plains. 



Var. nivalis, Baker. Lower, more slender; leaves narrower; 

 raceme few-flowered ; flowers smaller, divisions narrower — At melting 

 snows near top of Jebel Makmel (Lebanon). 



13. ORNITHOCcALilJIWI, L. Star of Bethlehem. 



Perigonium composed of six divisions connate only at base. Fila- 

 ments six, hypogynous, inserted on the receptacle, or adherent to the 

 base of the perigonium, lanceolate to linear, sometimes tricuspid at tip, 

 anthers versatile. Ovary sessile, 3-celled, ovules numerous, in two 

 vertical rows; style filiform, stigma capitate, somewhat 3-grooved. 

 Capsule membranous, the angles wingless or winged. Seeds obovatc 

 or angled — Bulbous herbs with racemed or corymbose flowers, the 

 divisions of the perigonium white, usually with a green band, rarely 

 cream -colored, never blue or purple, 



* Maceme elongated. 

 t All the Jilaments or three of them triclentate at tip. 



1. O. Liibaiioticiim, Boiss. et Bl. 2f .3; bulb ovate. Leaves 

 lanceolate, flat, tapering at base, as long as scape, shorter than raceme. 

 Raceme .1 long; pedicels ascending, half as long as flower, in fruit 

 nodding, as long as capsule; bracts scarious, long-tapering, longer 

 than pedicel; divisions of perigonium white without green band, ob- 

 long-linear, obtuse; filaments alternately simple and tricuspid, the 

 middle cusp fertile, triangular, acute, the lateral obtuse, shorter; cap- 

 sule ovate, .01 long, 6-ribbed — May — Valley of Hasroun and about 

 Ehedin, 



\ ^ All the filaments umlimded. 



2. O. Pyrcnaicum, L. If .5 to .7; bulb ovate. ^ Leaves glau- 

 cous, linear, grooved, usually marcescent Icfore floicering is over, shorter 

 than scape. Raceme many-flowered, pedicels ascending, as long as 

 flowers or longer, in fruit appressed ; bracts lanceolate, tapering, shorter 

 than pedicel; divisions of perigonium linear -ollong, .01 long, .0015 

 broad, yellowish, with a median green band; filaments three-quarters 

 as long as perigonium; capsule ovate, .009 long, 3-grooved — June — 

 Woods south of Kessab, and northward. 



3. O. fu§cesceiis, Boiss. et Gaill. 2^ .4; bulb ovate. Leaves 

 linear, grooved, .014 to .018 broad, shorter than scape. Raceme many 

 flowered, thyrsoid; pedicels ascending, tioice to once and a half as, long 

 as bract and flower; bracts lanceolate, acuminate, furnished at middle 

 on either side with a linear Me; divisions of perigonium tawny with a 

 2Hiler margin, elliptical, obtuse; filaments scarcely half as long as peri- 

 gonium — Summer — Fields ; near Rasheya. 



4. O. IVarbonemc, L. .3 to 1; bulb ovate, .01 to .03 long. 

 Leaves more or less linear, .003 to .01 broad, usually persistent during 



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