89. MELANTHACE^. 367 



Tribe III. Anthericens. 



9. Sime'this Kunth. 



1. S. bicohr (K.).—E. B. S. 2952.— Root of fleshy fibres. 

 L. linsar, flat or a little keeled upwards. St. and 1. enclosed in 

 sheathing scales and surrounded by brown fibres. Fl. panicled. 

 Pet. purple without, white within. Seed-stalks thiek, white. 

 Seeds black. — Sandy heaths. Near Bournemouth, Dorset. Near 

 Derrynane, Kerry. P. V. E. I. 



Tribe IV. Hemerocallidem. 

 10. ENDTM'ioif Dumort. Blue-bell. 



1. E. nutans (T)ma.) ; 1. linear, raceme nodding, fl.bellahaped 

 cylindrical, tip of the sep. revolute, bracts 2. — Soilla Sm., E. B. 

 377. A ffraphis Link. — Scape about a foot high. Fl. blue, rarely 

 white. Stam. united to the perianth halfway up. L. shorter 

 than the scape. — ^ Woods and thickets. P. V. English Blue-bell. 



11. Mtjs'caki Town. Grape-Hyacinth. 



1. M. racem6sum (Mill.) ; fl. ovoid nodding crowded 

 upper ones nearly sessile abortive, 1. linear channelled flaccid 

 recurved at the end. — E. B. 1931. — Scape 1 ft. high. Fl. dark 

 blue, scented. Caps, emarginate. Not M. nefilectum (Guss.), 

 as supposed in ed. 6. The cultivated plant, M. botryoides, has 

 globose flowers. — Sandy fields. Plentiful near Oavenham and 

 Pakenham, Sufiblk. About Gogmagog Hills, Cambridge. 

 P. IV. V. B. 



Order LXXXIX. MELANTHACE.^. 



Perianth inferior, 6 — 7-parted. Stam. 6, on the receptacle or 

 perianth. Anth. attached below their middle. Ovaries supe- 

 rior, 1 of 3 cells, or 3 of 1 cell more or less connected. Ovules 

 many. Styles 1 — 3. Fr. bursting inwards, of 3 separate 1- 

 ceUed follicles, or more or less combined into a 3-celled 

 capsule. 



1. Colchicum:. Perianth funnelshaped, tube long; limb 

 e-parted, petal-like. Styles long. Caps. 3, connected 

 throughout, opening at the inner edge, many-seeded. — • 

 Tuberous. 



2. TopiBLDiA. Perianth 6-leaved. Styles short. Caps. 3, 

 connected to above the middle, 1-celled, opening at the 

 inner edge, manj-seeded. — A creeping rhizome. 



