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i. — E. B. 130. R. X, 467. — ^L. exceeding the stem or 

 filiform and shorter. Height 8 — 12 in. Fl. white with a broad 

 green longitudinal hand externally. — Meadows and pastures. 

 P. V. E. S. 



2. O. pyrendwum (L.) ; fl. in an elongated narrow raceme, 

 ped. at first spreading afterwards erect, bracts lanceolate-acu- 

 minate, filaments dilated below with a long point, 1. soon fading 

 linear grooved.^^. B. 499. — St. leafless, 2 — 3 feet high. Ka- 

 cemp becoming very long. Fl. greenish white ; segments of the 

 perianth varialjle in breadth. L. withering berarfe the stalk 

 appears, rarely contemporaneous, — Woods. Extremely ' com- 

 mon near Bath. Sussex. Bedfordshire. P. VI. E. 



*3. O. mitans (L.), ; fl. few in a lax nodding raceme, ped. 

 falling short of the bracts, filaments flat membranous trifid, the 

 lateral points acute, middle one very short bearing the anther, 

 1. lineai-lanceolate.— ^. B. 1997. Alhucea R. x. 473.— Height 

 9 — 12 in. Fl. large, white, greenish extemally.^-Fields and 

 orchards, rare. B. IV. V. E. 



6. Ga'gba Salisb. 



1. G. lutea (Ker) : radical 1. usually solitary linear-lanceolate 

 flat, bracts 2 opposite, peduncles umbellate simple glabrous, 

 segments of the perianth oblong blunt, bulb ovate solitary. — 

 E. B. 21. R. X. 477. Omitliogalum L. — St. about 6 in. high, 

 shorter than the leaves. Bracts lanceolate, one often exceeding 

 the yellow flowers. Bulb often enclosiM many small round oft- 

 sets. — Woods and thickets, rare. P. ILL. IV. E. S. 



7. Scxi'la Lifin. SquiU. 



1. S. autumncdis (L.) ; 1. linear many, raceme lax, peduncles 

 ascending, h-acts O.—E. B. 78. R. x. 463.— Height 4—6 in. 

 Fl. purplish blue with a green line down the back, in perfection 

 before me 1. appear. — ^Dry pastures iit the South and West. P. 

 Vin. Autwrmal SquiU. E. 



2. iS. wr'na (Huds.) ; 1. linear channelled hooded at the end 

 many, raceme few-flowered corymbose, bracts lanceolate as long 

 as or longer than the peduhcles.^-^^. B. 23. R. x. 463.— Height 



4 5 in. n. blue. L. as long as or longer than the stalk. — 



Western and Northern coasts. P. IV. V. Vernal Squill. E. S. I. 



\S. bifdlia (L.) ; linear-lanceolate usually only 2, raceme lax 

 slightly corymbose, ped. erept, bracts 0.— J?. B. 24. — Ramsey 

 Island, Pembrokeshire. lAghifoot Teignmouth, Devon. Mr. 

 Chthm. P. IV.] E. 



