Tulipa.] LILIACEJE. 411 



Chalk pits, &c, wild in S/W. York, Norfolk, Suffolk, Somerset ; naturalized 

 elsewhere; fl. April-May. — Bulb small, ovoid, stoloniferous ; scales chest- 

 nut-brown. Leaves few, 6-10 in., linear, ^-1 in. broad, glaucous. Stem 1-2 

 ft., terete, flexuous. Flowers 2 in., fragrant. Filaments woolly at the 

 base. Capsule 1 in., acute above and below. — Distrib. From Holland 

 southd. 



13. GA'GEA, Salisb. 



Bulb coated ; coats few coriaceous. Leaves radical, linear. Scapes with 

 leafy bracts. Flowers yellow, corymbose or umbellate, proterogynous ; 

 perianth-segments persistent, free spreading from an erect base ; nectary 0. 

 Stamens on the base of the segments, filaments flattened subulate ; anthers 

 linear, basifixed. Ovary 3-gonous or 3-quetrous ; style 3-gonous, stigma 

 obtuse ; cells many-ovuled. Capsule membranous, loculicidally 3-valved. 

 Seeds many, subglobose, pendulous, raphe thick, testa soft yellow ; embryo 

 cylindric, radicle next to thehilum. — Distrib. Europe.. N. Asia; species 

 20. — Etym. Sir Thomas Gage, a British botanist. 



G. lu'tea, Ker ; radical leaf solitary ribbed, sheath slender, bracts 1-3. 

 G. fascicularis, Salisb. ; Ornitho'galitm lu'teum, L. Yellow Star of Beth- 

 lehem. 



Copses and pastures on the E. from Perth and Moray to Gloster, Sussex, and 

 Somerset, local and rare ; fl. March-May. — Bulb small, subglobose, with 

 basal bulbils. Radical leaf linear, 6-18 in., §-§ in. broad. Scape short ; 

 bracts 1-3, 2 sometimes opposite ; pedicels 1-2 in. Perianth §-§ in., opens 

 in forenoon only ; segments linear-oblong, obtuse, inner narrowest, thin, 

 yellow, back green. — Distrib. Europe (excl. Greece), N. Asia, Himalaya. 



_ 14. LLOY'DIA, Salisb. 



A small slender herb. Bulb minute, thickly scaly. Leaves filiform. Stem 

 leafy, slender, 1-2 -fid. Flowers erect, honeyed, homogamous; perianth- 

 segments persistent, free, spreading, equal, yellow or white, with a trans- 

 verse cavity. Stamens 6, on the base of the segments, filaments filiform ; 

 anthers oblong, basifixed. Ovary 3-gonous ; style filiform, stigma obtuse ; 

 cells many-ovuled. Capsule 3-quetrous, loculicidally 3-valved at the top. 

 Seeds many, horizontal, 3-quetrous, testa black rugose ; embryo minute, 

 next the hilum. — Distrib. Europe, Asia, and N. America ; species 2. — 

 Etym. E. Lloyd, an antiquary, its discoverer in "Wales. 



Ij. sero'tina, Reichb ; leaves 3-gonous incurved. 

 Rocky ledges of the Snowdon range, very rare ; fl. June. — Sheaths of bulb 

 very many and loose. Leaves 6-10 in. , cauline shorter. Stem 2-8 in., terete. 

 Perianth-segments \ in., white (in England), obovate-oblong, veined with 

 purple. Seeds red-brown till quite ripe. — Distrib. Arctic, Alps of Mid. 

 Europe, Himalaya, N. America.— Flowers in the Himalaya vary from white 

 to primrose or deeper yellow. 



