PI. end. ph. 19. AMARYLLIDE^. 131. Galanthus. 19« 



IV. 131. GALANTHUS. Linnaeus. Snowdrop. 



Perigonium 6-parted; tube short, limb bellshape, lobes 

 unequal; 3 inner half the length of the 3 outer, heartshape, 

 thickened at the tip ; stamens 6, inserted on a gland cover- 

 ing the ovary; anthers awlshape, opening at the top by 

 2 pores ; style threadshape ; stigma acute ; capsule 3-celled ; 

 seeds many, globose. — Herh bulbose; bulb ovate, tunicated; 

 leaves radical, 2, glaucous, keeled ; sheaths membranaceous, 

 not nicked; scape rounA, not inclosed in the sheath; spathe 

 cylindrical; ^oi^er 1, peduncled, drooping, white, tipped 

 with green. 



Galanthus nivalis. JVhite snowdrop, 



Leiicojum buibosum praecox minus, Ger.em, 147. 



Galanthus nivalis, Lin. S. P. 413. 



Early bulbous violet. Fair maids of February. 



Fields and orchards ; perennial ; February and March. 

 Stem 12 in. high. One of the first flowers that appear, 

 as a harbinger of summer. 

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Fam. XV. 20. IRIDE^. Ventenat. Irides, Jussieu. 

 Ensatce, Linnaeus. Liliacearum genera 

 qucedam, Adanson. 



Perigonium adherent, petaloid, tubular at bottom, limb 

 6-cut or parted, often irregular; stamens 3, inserted at the 

 base of the exterior lobes; anther linear, opening outwards; 

 ovary 1 ; style 1 ; apex 3-cut, lobed, often petaloid ; stig- 

 mata 3 ; capmle 3-celled, 3-valved ; valves partition-bearing; 

 placenta linear, on the inner edge of the partitions ; seeds 

 many, roundish; perisperm horny or thick and fleshy; cor- 

 culum inclosed, straight near the hilum. — Herb smooth; 

 root tuberous or fibrous; leaves averse, equitant, 2-rowed 

 or linear ; flower radical, terminal, spiked, corymbose, or 

 on a crowded panicle. 



Tube of the perigonium long; liml regular; 

 lobes of the style wedgeshape; 

 spathe 1 or 2, outer tubular Crocus. 132. 



Tube of the perigonium short; limh regular 

 lobes of the style linear; stigmata ^-^axted; 

 spathe 2-valved Trichomema. 13^ . 



Tube of the perigonium short ; limb alter- 

 nately deflexed ; lobes of the style petaloid ; 

 stigmata linear Iris. 134, 



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