152 THE FLORA OF THE ALPS 



A. albus, Mill. ; flowers in a compact spike, stem 36 

 ft., simple, leafless ; Southern Switzerland, very rare 

 (Valais, Monte Generoso), Pyrenees. A. ramosus, L. ; 

 stem ij~3 ft., branched above, flowers much smaller, 

 in panicles formed of loose spikes ; high ; Pyrenees, 

 Dauphiny. 



11. ANTHERICUM, L. 



Flowers white, in a lax terminal raceme, on a leafless 

 scape springing from a tuberous root-stock ; sepals and 

 petals distinct, spreading ; leaves narrow. 



A. ramosum, L. ; panicle branched, flowers distant, 

 stem ij 2 ft., slender, leaves linear, channelled, shorter 

 than the stem; mountain woods, frequent. A. Liliago, 

 L. ; flowers larger (about i in.), raceme not branched, 

 stem 4-18 in.; open hill -sides; Switzerland, Jura, 

 Pyrenees. 



12. PARADISIA, Mazz. 



Flowers large, funnel-shaped, white, in a terminal uni- 

 lateral raceme on a leafless scape ; leaves very narrow ; 

 ovary shortly stalked. 



P. Liliastrum, Bert. (Anthericum Liliastrum, L.) 

 (PI. 114); flowers very large (2 in.), milk-white, racemes 

 2-8-flowered, leaves linear, as long as the stem, stem 

 12-18 in.; alpine pastures, rare; Valais, Jura (Dole), 

 Tirol, Carniola, Carinthia, Dauphiny, Pyrenees. 



13. ALLIUM, L. 



Flowers in umbels surrounded by a membranous 

 spathe, on a usually leafless scape springing from a 

 tunicated bulb; sepals and petals distinct; seed-vessel 



