iS6 THE FLORA OF THE ALPS 



1 6. SCILLA, L. 



Flowers blue or rarely pink, few, in a short raceme, on 

 a short leafless scape springing from a small bulb ; sepals 

 and petals distinct, spreading ; filaments flattened ; seed- 

 vessel a 3-celled few-seeded capsule. 



6". bifolia, L. (PL 115); flowers 2-5 on erect flower- 

 stalks, bracts o, stem 4-8 in., glabrous, leaves 2, lanceo- 

 late ; woods and orchards, frequent. 6'. italica, L. ; 

 flowers more numerous, each subtended by two linear- 

 lanceolate bracts, stem 8-12 in., leaves 2-5, linear-lan- 

 ceolate ; rare ; Bern, Valais, Dauphiny. 6". vema, Huds., 

 Squill; raceme very short, few-flowered, each flower 

 subtended by one linear-lanceolate bract, stem 8-12 in., 

 \eaves numerous, broadly lanceolate, recurved ; high 

 pastures; Pyrenees. 



Our English Blue-bell or Wild Hyacinth {Sdlla nutans, 

 Sm., Agraphis nutans, Lk.) occurs at low elevations in 

 the Pyrenees, but is entirely absent from Switzerland. 



17. MUSCARI, Toum. 



Flowers very small, blue, globose, in a dense raceme 

 on a leafless scape springing from a small bulb; 

 perianth-leaves all united below ; stamens attached to 

 the middle of the corolla-tube, filaments very short. Not 

 alpine. 



M. comosum, Mill., Grape-Hyacinth ; racemes at first 

 dense, afterwards much elongated, flower-stalks hori- 

 zontal, longer than the flower, many of the flowers often 

 sterile, stem 12-18 in., leaves channelled; grassy slopes; 

 Southern and Western Switzerland, Pyrenees. M. botry- 



