JUNCACE^ i6i 



flowers white, silvery, large, cyme dense; mountain 

 woods, local. L. Sieberi, Tausch. ; resembling sylvatica, 

 but smaller, leaves more hairy ; high. L. spadicea, DC. ; 

 cyme lax, flowers black-brown, leaves linear, bearded 

 at the base ; alpine pastures, frequent. L. lutea, DC. ; 

 leaves glabrous, linear-lanceolate, cyme spreading, flowers 

 golden-yellow; alpine pastures, frequent. L. glabrata, 

 Koch ; cyme lax, flowers black-brown with white margin, 

 leaves shortly lanceolate ; dry ; Tirol, Styria, Salzburg. 



C. Flowers in spikelets, forming a cyme, panicle, or 

 umbel : — L. spicata, DC. ; spikes forming a drooping 

 umbel, flowers dark brown, leaves linear ; alpine pastures, 

 frequent. L. multiflora, Lej. (including alpina, Hoppe, 

 and nigricans, Desv.); csespitose, spikelets black-brown, 

 forming an umbel, leaves linear, hairy ; alpine pastures, 

 frequent. L. pedi/ormis, DC. ; flowers forming an oblong 

 drooping spike, leaves linear, stem 1 8-24 in. ; Dauphiijy, 

 Mont Cenis, Pyrenees. 



Order XC— MELANTHACE^. 



Resembhng LiliacecB, but root-stock a corm or creeping 

 rhizome ; anthers bursting laterally or outwardly. Dis- 

 tribution similar. 



I. COLCHICUM, L. 



Flowers solitary or in clusters, springing from a fleshy 

 corm ; perianth with a very long tube ; stamens 6 ; leaves 

 all radical. (Closely resembling Crocus, but with a superior 

 ovary.) 



C. autumnale, L., Meadow Saffron, Autumn Crocus ; 

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