CONVALLARIA.] LILIAGE^. 405 



from the hilum. DISTHIB. Europe (excl. Greece), N. Asia. ETTM. 



convattis, a valley. 



C. majalis, L. ; leaves ovate-lanceolate petioled. 



Woods, from Caithness to Kent and Devon, not common ; ascends to 1,000 

 ft. in N.England; naturalized in Scotland and Ireland ; fl. May- June. - 

 Leaves 6-8 in. ; petiole long, slender, sheathing. Scape 6-10 in., angular; 

 bracts membranous ; raceme 6-12-fld. ; pedicels curved. Mowers in. diam., 

 white or rose, odorous, drooping, subglobose. Berry red. 



6. SIME'THIS, Kunth. 



A slender herb. Root of fascicled fibres. Leaves radical, grassy. Scape 

 panicled, bracteate. Flowers jointed on the pedicel. Perianth spreading, 

 deciduous ; segments 6, almost free. Stamens 6, on the base of the 

 segments, filaments woolly below ; anthers oblong. Ovary subglobose, 

 3-celled ; style slender, stigma a point ; ovules 2 in each cell, superposed. 

 Capsule loculicidally 3-valved. Seeds 6, subglobose, arillate, testa black 

 crustaceous shining ; embryo long, radicle near the hilum. DISTRIB. 

 S.W. France, Spain, Italy, N. Africa. ETYM. Classical. 



S. bi'color, Kunth. $. plam'fo'lia, "Woods. 



Fir woods, Dorset (extinct) ; Derrynane, Ireland ; (an alien or denizen, 

 Wats.) ; fl. June. Root-fibres stout. Leaves 6-18 in., J in. diam., linear, 

 acuminate, recurved, surrounded at the base with torn fibrous brown 

 sheaths, flat or concave. Scape as long, dichotomously branched ; bracts 

 slender ; pedicels rigid, slender. Flowers f in. diam., corymbose ; segments 

 oblong, obtuse, concave, purple on the back, white inside. Capsule obtusely 

 angled J in. diam. 



7. AL'LIUM, L. 



Foetid, pungent herbs. Bulb coated. Leaves radical. Flowers capitate 

 or umbelled ; spathes 1-2, membranous. Perianth-segments 6, free, 

 spreading or campanulate. Stamens 6, hypogynous or on the base of the 

 segments, filaments free or connate below ; anthers oblong. Ovary 

 3-gonous ; style filiform, simple or 3-cleft, stigmas simple ; ovules few in 

 each cell. Capsule membranous, top depressed, 3-lobed, loculicidally 

 3-valved. Seeds 1-2 at the base of each cell, turgid or compressed, testa 

 black ; embryo curved, excentric, radicle next the hilum. DISTRIB. N. 

 temp, regions ; species 250. ETYM. Latin for Garlic. 



SECTION 1. Por'rum. Leaves sheathing the scape to the middle. 

 Perianth-segments erect. Three outer filaments broader, tips 3-fid ; lateral 

 cusps subulate, about as long as the antheriferous. 



* Leaves fistular. 



1. A. vineale, L. ; leaves flattened or grooved above, spathe solitary 

 short with a long beak, head globose usually with bulbils. Grow Garlic. 



