400 AMARYLLIDEsK. [GALANTHUP. 



2. GALAN'THUS, 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 &vOos, flower. 



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



Meadows and copses, wild ? in 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 Gfalanthus, but leaves numerous ; spathes 2, free or connate, 

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

 style clavate ; testa crustaceous fleshy. DISTRIB. Chiefly European ; 

 species 9. ETYM. Aev/a's, white, and lov, a violet. 



1. L. sesti'vum, L. ; leaves hibernal, flowers festival, 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 f in., ovate, 

 white, tips green. Fruit turbinate. Seeds not caruncled. DISTRIB. From 

 Denmark southd. 



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



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

 than L. cesti'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, Eussia). 



ORDER LXXIX. DIOSCORB'JB. 



RootstocTc 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, 



