LILIUM L. LILY. 



L. Martagon L. Martagon Lily. This well-known mountain Lily, 2-3 ft. 

 high, has leaves in whorls of 6 or 8. Pendent flowers dull purple-pink spotted 

 with darker purple, and recurved segments. 



Mountain woods and thickets. June-July. In the Var it can be found in 

 the forest of Sainte-Baume, the foret de Brouis, bois de Moriere near Sollies- 

 Toucas, etc. In the Alpes-Marit. it descends to the mountains above Grasse. 



L. pomponium L. (Plate XXVII). Leaves linear, narrow, very numerous 

 and close. Flowers r-6, rather large and handsome, pendent ; segments re- 

 curved or rolled back and pointed, brilliant red spotted with dark brown. Anthers 

 red. Very fetid. 



Hot, rocky places in the lower mountains in the north of the Var ; above 

 Menton, Lantosque, St. Valier, Roja Valley, etc. In the Ligurian Alps we have 

 seen it as high as 6000 ft. 



L. croceum Chaix in Vill. (L. bulbiferum DC.). Tiger Lily. This hand- 

 some Lily with very large orange flowers spotted with black, and numerous 

 lanceolate leaves, is found in mountain woods and rocky pastures in the Maritime 

 and Ligurian Alps, descending to the hills above Menton and the neighbourhood 

 of S. Dalmazzo di Tenda and St. Martin Lantosque. June. 



L. candidum L. This well-known Lily with large white flowers, and 

 lanceolate leaves (lower ones undulate and broader) is found naturalized near 

 houses about Nice, Menton, Grasse, etc. It was formerly much cultivated for 

 the medicinal properties of its bulb. 



ERYTHRONIUM L. 



E. dens-canis L. Dog's-tooth, Violet. This well-known little plant with 

 2 oblong lanceolate leaves spotted with brown, and solitary pendent violet-pink 

 flower, with purple anthers, grows commonly in the lower Maritime Alps, e.g. 

 those above Menton ; and in 1900 was found in some woods near Garde-Freinet 

 in the Var. March-May. 



Q AGE A Salisbury. 



Q. arvensis R. ct S. Bulbs 2 in a common tunic. Leaves radical, 2, 

 narrow-linear, channelled, much spreading. Flowers yellow, green outside, 3-10 

 in a loose umbel ; pedicels flexuous, hairy, with little bracteoles. Perianth 

 segments long, narrow lanceolate, acute, downy. 



Sandy fields. March-April. 



Q. stenopetala Reichb. and Q. bohemica R. et S. are rare species found 

 in one or two places in the mountains ; and Q. lutea R. et S. is rare in the 

 South, though recorded from above Grasse. 



ORNITHOQALUM L. 



O. tenuifolium Guss. A slender species about 4 in. high. Leaves 

 linear, filiform, without any white line. Peduncles always erect. Flowers star- 

 shaped, white, green outside in a loose corymb. 



Dry hills and limestone mountains, descending in the Maures to near the sea. 

 April-June. In the Sainte-Baume chain it grows on the exposed ridges and cols. 



0. umbellatum L. Star of Bethlehem. More robust than the last. 

 Leaves narrow linear, with a white line. Peduncles spreading at maturity. 

 Flowers white, green outside, star-shaped, in a loose corymb. 



Cultivated fields, hill-sides, and woods, especially in the hills and lower 

 mountains. April-June. 



0. diyergens Bor. Star of Bethlehem. Closely allied to the last. 

 Bulb furnished with bulbils within the tunic, which produce neither stems nor 

 leaves. Leaves linear-narrow, with a white line. Flowers white, green out- 

 side, star-shaped, larger than the last, on very unequal pedicels. 



Fields, hedges, and sides of paths, etc., common. March-May. 



