89. MELANTHACE^E. 423 



Tribe IV. Hemerocallidea. 



10. ENDYM'ION Dumort. Blue-bell. 



1 . E. nutans (Dum.) ; 1. linear, raceme nodding, fl. bellshaped 

 cylindrical, tip of the sep. revolute, bracts 2. E. B. 377. 

 Scilla festalis (Sali^b.). Agraphis Link. Scape about a foot 

 high. Fl. blue, rarely white. Stam. united to the perianth 

 halfway up. L. shorter than the scape. Woods and thickets. 

 P. V. English Blue-bell. E. S. T. 



11. MUS'CAKI Mill. Grape-Hyacinth. 



1. M. racemosum (Mill.) ; fl. ovoid nodding crowded 

 upper ones nearly sessile abortive, 1. linear channelled flaccid 

 recurved at the end. E. B. 1931. Scape 1 ft. high. Fl. dark 

 blue, scented. Caps, emarginate. Not M. neglect-urn (Guss.), 

 as supposed in ed. 6. The cultivated plant, M. botryoides, has 

 globose flowers. Sandy fields. Plentiful near Cavenham and 

 Pakenham, Suffolk. About Gogmagog Hills, Cambridge. 

 P. IV. V. E. 



Order LXXXIX. MELANTHACE^E. 



Perianth inferior, 6 7-parted. Stam. 6, on the receptacle or 

 perianth. Anth. attached below their middle. Ovaries supe- 

 rior, 1 of 3 cells, or 3 of 1 cell more or less connected. Ovules 

 many. Styles 1 3. Fr. bursting inwards, of 3 separate 1- 

 celleci. follicles, or more or le^s combined into a o-celled 

 capsule. 



1. COLCHICUM. Perianth funnelshaped, tube long ; limb 

 G-parted, petal-like. Styles long. Caps. 8, connected 

 throughout, opening at the inner edge, many-seeded. 

 Tuberous. 



2. TOFIELDIA. Perianth 6-leaved. Styles short. Caps. :}, 

 connected to above the middle, 1 -celled, opening at the 

 inner edge, many-seeded. A creeping rhizome. 



3. NARTHFCIUM. Perianth 6-parted. Style undivided. Caps. 

 3-celled, loculicidal, many-seeded ; seed with a long fili- 

 form appendage at each end ; placenta basal. 



1. COL'CHICUM Linn. Meadow-Saffron. 



1. C. autumndle (L.) ; 1. flat lanceolate erect. E. B. 133. 

 Root-stock large, tuberous. L. a foot long and often an inch 



