18G ENGT.ISn BOTANT. 



curved U2:)wards ; stigma short, indistinctly 3-Iobcd. Capsule tri- 

 gonous or hexagonal, with 6 furrows, 3-cellcd, loculicidally 3-valved. 

 Seeds numerous, in two rows in each cell, horizontal, discoid, flat on 

 both sides, margined or winged ; testa rather soft, yellowish-brown. 



Herbs with scaly (rarely coated) bulbs. Stem leafy. Flowers 

 large, showj^, solitary or racemose or subverticillate, erect or drooping. 

 Leaves sessile, alternate or verticillate. 



The derivation of the name of this genus appears to bo from a Celtic word signify- 

 ing whiteness. 



SPECIES I.-LILIUM PYRENAICUM. Gouan. 



Plate MDXVil. 



Beich. Ic. Fl. Germ, at Helv. Vol. X. Tab. CCCCLIII. Fig. 992. 



Bllht, FI. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1078. 



L. pomponium, Linn, (ex parte). Bah. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. vi. p. 342 (non Auct. Pliir.'). 



Bulb subglobular, acute, with rather thin narrowly oblong-laneeolate 

 acute scales. Stem stout, glabrous, leafy nearly to the top. Leaves 

 scattered, crowded ; the lower ones elliptical-strapshaped ; the upper 

 strapshaped, acute, glabrous except on the margin and principal ribs, 

 beneath which are single rows of white papillas. Leaves at the base 

 of the terminal umbel broadly straj^shaped, in a whorl of 3 to 5. 

 Flowers pendulous, 2 to 8, two or three of them in a terminal umbel, 

 generally with a few axillary ones arranged in a raceme below those 

 in the umbel. Perianth leaves oblong-lanceolate, connivent for less 

 than half their length and revolute for the remaining part, yellow with 

 purplish-black elongate raised papiUaj. Style rather thick, twice as 

 long as the ovary, curved upwards. 



Not native. Extending for about fifty yards on a hedge-bank on 

 each side of the road at Sheepwash Fai-m, between South Molton 

 and Mollond, North Devon, about a mile and a quarter from the latter 

 place. Discovered by Mr. George JIaw. 



[England.] Perennial. Summer. 



Bulb flowering when about the size of a small apricot, with brittle 

 fleshy yellowisli-white or pale yellow scales. Stem IJ- to 4 feet high. 

 Leaves very numerous, not whorled, except at the base of the 

 peduncles, bright green, paler beneath, 2 or 4 inches long, spreading, 

 the uppermost ones ascending ; peduncles 2 to 6 inches long, curved 

 immediately below the apex, so that the flower is droojiing, but straight 

 in fruit, so that the latter is erect. Flowers 1^ inch across, the 

 upper two-thirds of the perianth segments recurved so as to give the 

 flower the appearance of a flattened yellow ball. Anthers chocolate ; 



