LILIACE^. (LILY FAMILY.) 808 



four times as long as flowers, and somewhat longer than lanceolate, 

 acuminate bracts, to twice as long. Divisions of perigonium oblong, 

 with a broad green band, obtuse, the outer mucronulate; filaments 

 half as long as perigonium; capsule ovate-oblong, .013 long — April — 

 Fields and stony places; middle to alpine mountain regions and interior 

 plateaus. 



9. O. tenuifolium, Guss. 21 .1 to. 3; bulb simjole, ovate, .01 to 

 .02 long. Leaves glabrous, filiform, erect, grooved, nearly or quite 

 destitute of a white 'hand, as long as scape or longer. Corymb few- 

 flowered ; pedicels spreading, the lower twice to five times as long as 

 flowers, and once to twice as long as lanceolate-subulate bract ; divisions 

 of perigonium oblong to linear-oblong, with a green band as broad as 

 margin, the outer three obsoletely mucronulate ; filaments half as long 

 as perigonium; ca,psule obovate, somewhat retuse, the ribs acute, 

 aijproximated in pairs — Spring — Hills; coast to middle and alpine 

 regions and interior plateaus. 



Var. tricliopliylliim, Boiss. Leaves setaceous— Near Beer Sheba. 



10. O. iimbriatuiii, Willd. If .1 to .2; bulb simple, ovate. 

 Leaves 3-8, linear, .002 to .007 broad, often recurved, clothed with 

 spreading or retrorse hairs, longer than hairy scape. Corymb loosely 

 8-15-flowered, the lower pedicels twice to thrice as long as flowers, and 

 as long as or longer than the lanceolate, glabrous bracts; divisions 

 of the perigonium oblong-linear, obtuse, with a broad, green band; 

 filaments scarcely half as long as perigonium; ribs of capsule approxi- 

 mated in pairs, narrowly winged — Spring — Middle to subalpine 

 mountain zones. 



Var. ciliatum, Boiss. Only margins of leaves ciliate — Jeru- 

 salem ; Nazareth ; Nusairy mountains. 



11. O. neurostegium, Boiss. et Bl. % .1 to .13; bulb ovate- 

 conical. Leaves 4-5, linear-lanceolate, long-tapering at base and tip, 

 .004 broad, longer than scape, retrorsely hispid. Raceme short, ovate, 

 5-7-flowered, pedicels scarcely longer than flowers, stiff; bracts longer 

 tlian pedicel, lanceolate, acuminate, many-nerved, white-margined; 

 divisions of perigonium .012 long, oblong-linear, obtuse, pale green at 

 back, many-striate, narroioly white-margined ; filaments one-third as 

 long as perigonium; ovary top-shaped, subulate — Summer — Jurd 

 Tannurin. 



14. LILiritt, L. Lily. Zenloq. 

 Perigonium deciduous, campanulate or revolute, divisions equal, 

 oblanceolate, the claws furnished with a longitudinal, nectariferous 

 groove. Stamens 6, somewhat perigynous, anthers versatile. Ovary 

 sessile, 3-celled, style long, undivided, stigma 3-angled. Capsule obo- 

 vate, hexagonal. Seeds numerous, discoid — Stemmed herbs, with 

 scaly bulbs. 



ti. caiidicluiu, L. 11 1 or more; bulbs ovoid, yellow, .1 long. 

 Root-leaves in winter 6-8, oblanceolate; lower stem-leaves spreading to 

 ascending, oblanceolate, wavy, rather obtuse, upper appressed, lanceo- 

 late, acute, much smaller. Raceme thyrsoid; pedicels erect, nodding 

 at tip, with bracts and sometimes bracteolesatbase; perigonium white, 

 .05 to .1 long, sweet-scented, funnel-campanulate, divisions oblanceo- 

 late ; anthers yellow -~ :May — Rocks ; Kesruwan '.Lebanon). 



