Cokhicum.] 



HEXANDRIA— TRIGYNIA. 153 



3-lobed, involucre at the base of the pedicel. E. Bol. t. 536 — 

 T. borealis, Walil. — Ant/ierician calyculatiun, L. 



Mountains of England, Scotland, and Ireland, in boggy places ; not 

 rare. Fl. July, Aug. 1^ . — 4 — 6 inches high. Leaves almost wholly 

 radical, in fascicles, linear, sword-shaped, equitant. Flowers small, pale 

 yellowish-white. 



25. ScHEUCHz^RiA. Lhin. Scheuchzeria. 



1. S.palustris, L. (Marsh Scheuchzeria). E. Bot. <. 1801. 



In a marsh at Lakeby Car, near Boroughbridge, discovered by the 

 Rev. James Ballon. Thorne Moor, near Doncaster. Bomerepool. 

 near Shrewsbury, C. Bubington, Esq. INIethven, near Perth,'i>//- Duff, 

 1833. Fl. July. If. A singular and very rare plant, having few, semi- 

 cylindrical, slender, rush-like leaves ; and a scape with large bracteas, 

 terminated by a raceme of greenish _^o?t'ers. Perianth and stamens re- 

 flexed. Germens 3, ovate, obtuse, with lateral, linear, downy stigmas. 

 Capsules singularly inflated.— I am indebted to my valued friend, Mr 

 Parker, for specimens gathered at Methven by Mr Dutf. 



26. Triglochin. Liwi. Arrow-grass. 



1. T. palustre, L. (marsh Arrow-grass) ; fruit 3-celled nearly- 

 linear. E. Bot. t. 366. 



Wet meadows, and by the sides of rivers and ditches in marshy situa- 

 tions, plentiful. Fl. Aug. 1^.— Leaves all radical, linear, fleshy, slightly 

 grooved on the upper side, sheathing and membranous at the base. 

 Scape 8—10 inches high, terminating in a lax, simple spike or raceme. 

 Flowers small, greenish. Capsules 3, linear, united by a common re- 

 ceptacle, so as to form one 3-celled /razY, each cell separating at its base 

 and suspended by the extremity, containing one seed and not dehiscent. 

 — Mr W. Wilson finds that the leaves, when bruised, yield a very fetid 

 smell, and that the root, under certain circumstances at least, is a creeping 

 one: sending out jointed, scaly runners, with comparatively large, ovate, 

 shortly acuminated bulbs at the extremity. These bulbs at the end of 

 the jointed runners have very much the appearance of a scorpion's tail. 



2. T. maritimum, L. (sea-side Arrow-grass); fruit 6-celled 

 ovate. E. Bot. t. ^bo. 



Salt marshes, not unfrequent. Fl. May, Aug. 1^. — Larger than the 

 last and stouter, difiering essentially in its fructification, w hich is formed of 

 6 combined capsules, constituting a broadly o\d.\.Q fruit ; not separating 

 from the base and suspended by their summits, as in T. palustre. Even 

 when in flow er, the same form is observable in the germen as in the fruit 



27. CoLCHicuM. TAnn. JMeadow- Saffron. 



1. C.*autu77i7idle,L. (common 31eadow- Saffron); leaves plane 

 broadly lanceolate erect. E. Bot. t. 133. — Var. with late green 

 abortive flowers. E. Bot. t. 1432. 



Meadows and pastures, chiefly in the north-west of England, Ray. 

 In Suffolk, Oxfordshire, Staftbrdshire, Cheshire, and other places. Al- 

 loa, Scotland. Fl. Sept. Oct Fruit and leaves in the spring. If. — 



Bulb solid. The flowers appear in succession, rising from the bulb, 

 with a very long, narrow tube, surrounded at the base with a membran- 

 ous sheath. T\\e stamens are inserted on the oblong-ovate segments of 

 the pale purple perianth. Germen at the base of the bulb, its long 



