180 118. Gagea. 15* ASPHODELE^. PI end. ph. 



VII. 118. GAGEA. R.A.Salisbury. Gage. 

 Per'igonium 6-sepaled, connivent at bottom, spreading 



above, persisting ; outer sepales herbaceous, inner petaloid \ 

 stamens 6 ; filaments flattish, inserted at the bottom of the 

 sepales, not dilated ; stigma clavate, blunt ; capsule ovate, 

 3-sided; seeds many, roundish. — Root small, bulbose; leaves 

 few, obtuse, mucronate, villous ;y/oM;er^ yellow, corymbose; 

 peduncles angular. 



Gagea fascicularis. Bu?idle gage, 



Corymlus many-flowered ; peduncle smooth, naked below, 



fascicled; sepales elliptical, lanceolate; scape angular; 



radical leaves solitary. 



Ornithogalum luteum, Park. Parad. 140; Rail Syn. 372, 1, 

 Ornithogalum lufeum, sen Cepe agraria, Ger. em, 165, 

 Ornithogalum pratense, Pers. in Uster. N. B, A. 5, 8. 

 Gagea fascicnlaris, Salisb. Ann, Bot. bbb. 

 yellow star-of-Bethlehern. 



Moist shady places ; perennial ; April. 



Bulb small ; stem 6 in. high, erect ; radical leaves mostty 

 single; stem leaves 2, unequal, fringed ; fringe white ; co^ 

 ryynhus 5 or 7-flowered. 



0. multiplex. Stem-leaves 3 or 4<, unequal. 



VIII. 119. MOLY. Moll/. 

 Perigonium 6-sepaled, spreading ; stamens 6, affixed above 



the base of the sepales, all threadlike, not dilated at bot- 

 tom, flat; style nearly 3-sided; stigma acute j capsule 

 3-sided ; cells deeply parted ; axis threadlike, remaining 

 after the opening of the valves; seed 1, rarely 2 or 3, 

 roundish ; corculum peripherical, more than half the length 

 of the perisperm, curved or spiral ; spermodermis simple. — 

 Root tunicate ; hull simple ; leaves radical, sheathing, flat, 

 linear or lanceolate ; flowers umbelled, lax, terminal, white 

 or yellow ; spathe bivalve, lanceolate, membranaceous j 

 Iractece ; scape mostly angular. 



Moly latifoUum. Broad-leafed moly. 



Leaves ovate, lanceolate, petiolate ; scape 3-sided. 



Allium sylvestre latifolium, Rail Syn. 370,5. 

 Allium ursinum, Ger. em. 179 ; Lin. S. P. 431. 



Woods and damp fields; perennial; May and June. 

 Bidbs attenuated, oblong; leaves acute, ribbed; scape 

 upright ; spathe deflected, shorter than the peduncles. 



