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—Named in honour of the late Si?' Thos, Gage^ Bart., an ex- 

 cellent British botanist. 



1. G. lutea Ker {yellow Gaged) ; radical leaves 1—2 linear- 

 lanceolate longer than the angular scape, umbel simple, bracteas 

 linear-lanceolate longer than the umbel, leaves of the perianth 

 obtuse, bulb ovate solitary. Ornithogalum E. B.t.2\. 



Woods and pastures, in several parts of England and Lowlands of 

 Scotland, 2/.. 3 — 5. — All the species of this genus are so similar 

 that more than one may exist in this country. The allied G. pra^ 

 tensis is equally abundant on the Continent, and is by some con- 

 sidered a mere variety : it has, however, each bulb composed of 3 

 small ones, the whole included within a common covering. In 

 another equally common species ( G. arvensis) the bulb is composed 

 of 2 smaller ones. 



12. LxoYDiA Salisb. Lloydia. 



Perianth of 6 nearly equal, spreading, persistent pieces. Fila- 

 ments snhuMe, glabrous. Anthers erect. Style erect. Capsule 

 triquetrous, thin in texture. Seeds angled above and flat 

 below.— Flowers solitary or few and corymhose, white with red 

 . ,„t or green veins. Bracteas foliaceous.— Named in honour of Mr 



Mward Llhivyd, a learned antiquarian and skilful naturalist of 

 the 17th century, who first discovered this plant in Britain. 



l._ L. serotina Reich. {Mountain L.) ; leaves semicylindrical 

 cauline ones dilated at their base, flowers mostly solitary, sepals 

 with a transverse nectariferous plait above the base. Anthe- 

 ricum Z. : E. B. t. 793. Phalangium Pair. 



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On the Welsh mountains, rare. Snowdon, on the elevated rocks 

 I ^ T} ^ngvylchau y Clogwyn du ymhen y Gluder, Clogwyn vr 

 :J ArdhuCnb y Dist]h,&c.; TwU du ; near the summit of Gluder 



*[ .. p7 ' ''™ ^'^'''^^' Caernarvonshire. 2^. 6. —Stem 5—6 inches high. 



Mower-Ualk mvested with its own sheath, and separated by an 

 e ongatlon of the root from the leaves, of which the most distant en- 

 closes withm Its fleshy base the rudiment of the plant of the follow- 

 ing season. The plant is increased by offsets or creeping shoots with 

 a Dulb at the extremity, the point of the bulb being directed towards 

 M(l "^.,P''"'™t ""oot- Perianth permanent, withering ; its segments nee 

 P wuerous. ^^ame«s not attached to the perianth, beardless. The 



» l.f f "^' ''K *' ^^""^ °^ *h^ l^af ^re one on each side of the keel, 

 not close to the margin of the leaf. Two-flowered specimens are ' 

 ^ery unfrequent." W. Wilson. 



aitr 13. TuLiPA Zmw, Tulip. 



deS^Sl f ^?^''^^^*^ ^^ ^ P'^^^es, without a nectariferous 



repression, deciduous. Anthers erect. Stigma sessile, 3-lobed 



^^^psule trigonous. Seeds flat.-FIowers usually solitary, rarely 



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