AMAKYLLIDACEiE. 1G5 



shaped funnel, but afterwards the form of the perianth is more neany 

 cylindrical. Anthers yellow, suba[)icuhite. Style white, with a green 

 ring near the apex. Scape lying on the ground when the fruit is ripe. 

 Fruit I to 1 inch long, herbaceous, turbinate-oblong-ovoid. Seeds 

 about the size of sweet-pea seeds, witli a soft whitish testa. 



L. asstivum in its typical form is less often met with in cultivation 

 than the subspecies L. Hernandezii of Cabassedes, a native of southern 

 Europe, which frequently does duty for L. (eu-)a3stivum in botanic 

 gardens, and is sold by seedsmen under the name of L. pulchellum. 

 This form flowers from three weeks to a month earlier than C. eu- 

 ajstivum and has the flowers smallei", little more than ^ inch long, the 

 perianth segments more incurved, so that the perianth is somewhat 

 ovoid, and ailer flowering ui-ceolate. 



Summer Snowflahe. 



French, Niveole d'ete. German, Sommer-Knotenhlume, 



SPECIES n.— LEUCOIUM VERNUM. Lhin, 



Plate IIDVI. 



Bekk Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. IX. Tab. CCCLXII. 



Billot, Fl. GaU. et Germ. Exsicc. No. 2141. 



I. C. Mansel, in Seemann's Journ. Bot. 1866, p. 209. 



Erinosma vernum, Herb. Kunih, Enum. Plant. Vol. V. p. 474. Pari. Fl. Ital. Vol. 



III. p. 82. 

 Nivaria verna, Monch. Meth. p. 280. 



Leaves broadly linear-lorate, very slightly channelled, green, not 

 glaucous, appearing in spring with or sometimes after the flowers. 

 Spathe 1-valved, split or notched at the apex, usually longer than the 

 jjedicel. Flower solitary, or rarely two together. Perianth segments 

 rhombic-oval, connivent into a wide bellshaped cup. Style clavate- 

 cylindrical with a conical apex. Seeds soft, white, ovoid, with a large 

 prominent caruncule at the chalaza. 



On the banks and sides of a thick hedgerow on one of the decli- 

 vities of the greenstone heights in the neighbourhood of Bridport, 

 Dorset, recorded by Mr. J. Hardy of Manchester, and found in 

 abundance by Mr. I. C. Mansel. It is "stated to have been dis- 

 covered near Bicester" ("Gardener's Magazine of Botany" for July 

 1836. Cyb. Brit. vol. ii. p. 449). 



England. Perennial. Early Spring. 



Bulb flowering when the size of a large filbert. Leaves distichous, 

 slightly channelled above and bluntly keeled below, recurved, tapering 

 slightly from beyond the middle towards the apex; in the Dorsetshire 

 plant attaining a considerable length before the flower expands, but in 



