LILIACEyE 281 



An Alpine form of this is known as A. roseum Krock.=y4. 

 sibiricum L. It grows in Alpine pastures up to 8000 feet. 



Allium angulosum L. 



Stem 1-2 feet high, angular towards the top. Leaves linear, 

 strongly channelled. Spatha of 2-3 ovate-acute bracts. Umbel 

 rather flat. Flowers rose, rarely white. Stamens nearly as long as 

 the petals. Rootstock horizontal, with several oblong bulbs. 



Damp meadows in the plains and lower mountains. June to 

 September. 



Distribution. — Switzerland, France, Central and Northern Europe, 

 Caucasus, Siberia. 



Allium fallax Roem. et Schultes. 



A very similar plant with horizontal stock emitting oblong bulbs. 

 Leaves linear, convex, and obscurely nerved, without being keeled, 

 shorter than the stem. 



Rocks in the mountains. June to September. 



Distribution. — Jura, Alps, Cevennes, Corbieres, Pyrenees, Central 

 Europe, Armenia. 



Gagea Salisbury. 



Flowers yellow or greenish, in umbels or corymbs, with leafy 

 bracts on a leafless scape springing from the bulb. Stamens 

 attached to the base of the perianth-segments. 



Gagea lutea Ker-Gawler. 



Bulbs small. Leaves i or very rarely 2, broadly linear, pointed. 

 Stem slender about 6 inches high. Flowers 3 or 4 in a loose, flat, 

 umbel-like raceme, with leaf-like bracts as long or longer than the 

 pedicels. Perianth-segments oblong and spreading, yellow, green 

 underneath. 



Meadows, hedges, and orchards. May, June. 



Distribution. — Alps, Jura, Vosges, Ardennes, Cevennes, Pyrenees, 

 Corsica, Europe, especially Central, Caucasus, Siberia. British. 



Gagea fistulosa Ker-Gawler (G. Liottardi Schult.). 



Bulbs I or 2 in each sheath. Leaves 1-3, usually 2, the one from 

 the larger bulb stouter, glabrous, trigonous, shghtly furrowed, 

 tubular towards the apex. Bracts 2, large, opposite, bulging in the 

 middle, and 2 or 3 linear bracts in the branches of the umbel. 

 Flower-stalks woolly. Flowers variable ; the first have often only 

 4 perianth-segments and stamens, the latter ones only 5 segments, 

 yellow within and at the margin, green without. 



Rich soil in high Alpine pastures (often near chalets) up to 7500 

 feet ; local. June, July. 



Distribution. — Eastern, Central, and Western Alps. 



