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scales composing the bulb, there is great diversity. Four leading 
permanently scariose. In Gagea oe nele of the new year is 
i i old one at the flowering 
several other European species, in which the new bulb has already 
nium publulans a rhizome strikes out from the stem nearly at the surface 
of the soil, some distance above the old corm, and bearing downwards 
in Calochortus, of Orithyia in Puli a, an 
petalum in Fritillaria. His synopsis included 180 species, very few 
of which are here named for the rst time. This tribe like Alliex, 
no emp 
our rarest British plants, has the widest distribution of all the 
Liliacez. 
