158 THE FLORA OF THE ALPS 



20. FRITILLARIA, L. 



Flowers large, solitary or few, bell-shaped, drooping, 

 on leafy scapes ; sepals and petals distinct ; anthers dorsi- 

 fixed ; styles 3 ; leaves narrow. 



F. Meleagris, L., Fritillary, Snake's-Head (PI. 116); 

 flowers solitary, yellow or variegated with purple, ij in. 

 long, stem 10-18 in., leaves linear; damp meadows; Neu- 

 chatel, Jura, Savoy, Carinthia, Styria, Pyrenees. F. pyre- 

 naica, L. ; flowers yellow- or purple-brown, petals larger 

 than the lanceolate sepals, leaves lanceolate, broader than 

 in the last; Pyrenees. F. delphinensis, Gren.; resembling 

 the last, but sepals oblong, stem-leaves numerous ; high ; 

 Dauphiny. F. involucrata, All. ; perianth -leaves all oblong 

 and submucronate, leaves linear-lanceolate, mostly oppo- 

 site, a whorl of three beneath the flower ; Dauphiny. 



Order LXXXIX. JUNCACE^E. 



Flowers small, bisexual, in axillary or terminal cymes ; 

 sepals and petals 3 each, distinct, brown or green; sta- 

 mens 6, rarely 3 ; ovary superior ; stigmas 3, feathery ; 

 seed-vessel a i-3-celled capsule; stem smooth, pithy; 

 leaves very narrow. 



I. JUNCUS, L. 



Sepals keeled ; ovary 3 -celled with axile, rarely I -celled 

 with parietal ovules. Very glabrous plants, with usually 

 cylindrical leaves and pithy stem. 



Most of the lowland English species of Rush are found 

 also in Switzerland, viz. : J. effusus, L. (communis, 



