LILIACEiE. (LILY FAMILY.) 807 



gonium- February to May — Palestiae to subalpiuc and alpine Loba- 

 uon, Damascus, Aleppo, and northward. 



3. O. foliosa, Presl. 2C Root-leaves 2, linear; stem-leaves 2, 

 alternate or rarely opj^osite, glabrous or ciliate, the lower formino- a sort 

 of spathe. Flowers 1-few, corymbed ; pedicels simple or forked and 

 then furnished with linear bracteoles, villous; perigonium yellow, 

 divisions linear-oblong, obtuse, elongated in fruit, glabrous or villous at 

 base; filaments two-thirds as long as perigonium; capsule obcordatc, 

 about half as long as perigonium — February to May — Common. Too 

 near the last, probably only a variety of it. 



4. O. Boliemica, Zauschn. If Tufted. Root-leaves setaceous- 

 filiform, longer than stem. Stem low, 1-3-flowered; floral-leaves al- 

 ternate, lanceolate, acuminate, pedicels short, villous; divisions of 

 perigonium oblong -siKithulate, obtuse, yellow, with paler margins ; fila- 

 ments three-quarters as long as perigonium; capsule obovate-oblong — 

 Sjmng — Less common than the last two. 



* * Bulb 1, erect, enveloped by tunics, the radical leaf j'roni the tip, and 

 the flowering stem lateral, near the base. Seeds flattened. 



5. €r. reticulata, Pall. If Tunics numerous, 2^^'oduced into a 

 more or less elongated, reticulated sheath ; stem more or less exserted from 

 sheath, 1 -flowered or with 2-5-umbelled flowers. Leaves linear to fili- 

 form, crisp-puberulent, the upper somewhat whorled under the umbel. 

 Pedicels thickish, much longer than flower; divisions of perigonium 

 lanceolate, acute to acuminate, many-striate, green with yellow margins ; 

 filaments half as long as perigonium ; capsule obovate-oblong, obtuse, 

 two-thirds as long as perigonium — Spring — Common. 



Var. teiiuifolia, Boiss. Leaves filiform, often circinnate-re- 

 curved — Sinai; subalpine Lebanon; Antilebauon Plateau; Palmyra. 



6. O.Dania§cena, Boiss. et Gail]. 2f T\m\Q^ produced into short 

 lobes, scarcely flbrous, at lengtJi separated into fibres ; stem more or less 

 elongated, forked, 2-4-flowered. Leaves puberulent, linear; floral 

 leaves lanceolate. Pedicels elongated, stiff in fruit ; divisions of peri- 

 gonium oblong -linear, obtuse, 5-6-striate, green, yellow-margined; flla- 

 ments two-thirds as long as perigonium ; capsule oblong-club-shaped, 

 truncate, somewhat shorter than perigonium — Spring — Common. 



T. Cr. clilorantha, M. B. If Tunics scarious, produced along 

 the base of the stem, and there separated into fihres ; radical leaf filiform, 

 longer than stem ; stem-leaves alternate, filiform to narrow-lanceolate, 

 usually ciliate-margined. Pedicels thickish, 1-3, simple or 2-o-flowered, 

 bracteoled at the forks ; divisions of perigonium oblong, obtuse, green, 

 yellow-margined ; filaments half as long as perigonium ; capsule ellipti- 

 cal-oblong — Spring — Near Jerusalem. 



8. O. Persica, Boiss. 2|! Tunics scarcely produced along base of 

 stem; stem slender, flexuous, leafless below, forked-corymbose above; 

 radical leaf elongated ; loiter stem-leaf lanceolate, clasping, flat, 7?ia;z2/- 

 nert;^^, usually ciliate, the others short, filiform; bulblets in axils 1-5, 

 small, nuiked. Pedicels capillary, twice to thrice as long as flower; 

 divisions of perigonium. 006 long, oblong-lanceolate, obtusish; filaments 

 somewhat shorter than perigonium; stigma capitate-trilobed ; capsule 

 club-shaped triquetrous, stipitate, truncate — Spring — Alpine Lebanon 

 about and above Cedars. 



