354 84. lEiDACE^. 



3. Gia'dioltjs Linn. 



1. G.ilhjr'icus (Kooh); corm Clothed with nearly parallel fibres 

 netted above with long narrow openings, fl. secund, filaments 

 longer than the anthers, cor.-tubQ nearly thrice aslong as gernaen, 

 caps, oval emarginate with 3 rounded angles. — Sy. E. B, 1493. 

 J. ofS. i. t. 4. St. 83. 3.— Height about 20 in. Conns ovate- 

 acuminate. L. slender, swordahaped. Sheaths 2-edged. Fl. 

 reddish changing to bluish; basal pet. rather acute, exceeding 

 the blunt lower lateral pet. ; " edges of upper pet. not covered 

 by the 2 adjoining ones " when the fl. are in their prime. Stigm. 

 narrow below widening from the middle upwards and there 

 fringed. — Amongst Pdens in the New Forest. Isle of Wight. 

 Mr. A. G. More. P. VII. E. 



4. EoMULEA Mar. 



1. Ji.Colum'n(B(R^; scape 1-floweredusually solitary slightly 

 nodding, 1. filiform compressed furrowed recurved, spath ex- 

 ceeding the tube of the cor., style falling short of the stam., 

 stigmas bifid. — E. B. 2549. J?, ix. 354. T. Bulbocodium Sm. — 

 A small plant not more than 4 in. high, with a corm. Fl. green- 

 ish without, pale with purple stripes and yellow at the base 

 within. — Sandy places. Dawlish Warren, Devon. Jersey and 

 Guernsey. P. III. IV. E. 



5. Ceo'cus Linn. 

 * Scapes enveloped in a tubular sheath. 



1. C ver'nus (WiUd.) ; 1. and fl. at the same time, spath 

 simple, throat of the cor. fringed with hairs, stigma shortly 3-fid, 

 lobes erect wedgeshaped jagged at the end, corm clothed with " 

 slender netted fibres. — E. B. 344. — Fl. 1 — 2, violet-piirple. — 

 Near Nottingham ; and Mendham, Suff. P. III. E. 



2. C. midifldrus (Sm.) ; 1. succeeding the fl., spath simple, 

 stigma in 3 deeply laciniate divisions erect, corm with a mem- 

 branous coat. — E. B. 491. C. speciosus I-Iook. E. B. S. 2752. 

 — L. linear, appearing in March. Fl. solitary, purple. Stigmas 

 only a little higher than the anthers, or rising considerably 

 above them. — Meadows. P. IX. E. 



** Scapes naked. 

 [ C, argen'teus (Sal.) ; 1. and fl. at the same time, spath double, 



