400 AMARYLLIDEJE. [GALANTHW?. 



2. GAIiANTHUS, L. SNOWDROP. 



Leaves 2, linear. Scape compressed. Flowers solitary, pendulous, 



white ; spathe membranous. Perianth campanulate ; sepals spreading ; 



petals small, erect, notched, with 2 green honeyed grooves. Stamens 6, 

 epigynous ; anthers pointed, connivent, slits 2 terminal. Ovary ovoid ; 



style subulate, stigma simple. Capsule ovoid, herbaceous. Seeds few, 



subglobose, testa soft white. — Distrib. Europe ; species 3. — Etym. 

 yd\a, milk, and &v6os 1 flower. 



G. niva'lis, L. ; leaves glaucous keeled. 

 Meadows and copses, wild? iu Hereford and Denbigh; naturalized elsewhere 

 in England, Scotland, and Ireland ; fl. Jan.-March. — Bulb \ in., ovoid. 

 Leaves 6-10 in., obtuse. Scape longer, prostrate in fruit ; spathe 2-fid, 

 2-nerved ; pedicel slender. Flower lin.; sepals obovate, concave; petals 

 white. — Distrib. From Holland southd. (excl. Greece), W. Asia. 



3. LEUCO'JUM, L. Snow-flake. 



Characters of Galanthus, but leaves numerous ; spathes 2, free or connate, 

 1-6 fid. ; sepals and petals subequal ; anthers obtuse, opening by slits ; 

 style clavate ; testa crustaceous fleshy. — Distrib. -Chiefly European ; 

 species 9. — Etym. Asvkis, white, and Xov, a violet. 



1. Ii. aesti'vum, L. ; leaves hibernal, flowers sestival, scape 2-6-fld. 

 "Wet meadows and osier holes in S.E. England ; Suffolk to Oxford and Kent 



to Dorset.; (a denizen, Wats.)', fl. May. — Bulb 1 in. Leaves 12-18 in., 

 obtuse, subglaucous. Scape as long, prostrate in fruit, 2-edged ; tip of 

 spathe entire, green. Flowers drooping, buds erect. Sepals £ in., ovate, 

 white, tips green. Fruit turbinate. Seeds not caruncled. — Distrib. From 

 Denmark southd. 



2. Ii. vernum, L. ; leaves and flowers vernal, scape 1-2-fld. 



Copses, Dorset.; (an alien or denizen, Wats.); fl. March-April. — Much smaller 

 than L. asti'vum ; leaves subdistichous ; scape less winged ; spathe 2-fid at 

 the tip; flowers about as large; ovary more globose; seeds caruncled. — 

 Distrib. From Belgium southd. (excl. Greece, Russia). 



Order LXXIX. dioscore m. 



Rootstock often tuberous. Stem twining to the left, leafy. Leaves 

 alternate, veins reticulate. Flowers inconspicuous, 1-sexual, in axillary 

 panicles or racemes. Perianth herbaceous, superior in the female flower ; 

 segments 6, in two series, regular, persistent. Stamens 6, inserted on the 

 perianth-segments, free ; anthers introrse. Ovary 3-celled ; styles 3, 

 short, stigma entire or lobed ; ovules 2, collateral or superposed, anatro- 

 pous. Fruit 3-angled, 3-celled, indehiscent or loculicidally 3-valved, 



