Lloydia.] LXXXV. LILIACE^E. 461 



IX. LLOYDIA. LLOYDIA. 



A single species, with most of the technical characters of Tulipa, but 

 with a slender style, and the small spreading perianth of the following 

 genera. 



1. L. serotina, Eeichenb. (fig. 1039). Mountain L. — Bulb small, 

 with 2 or 3 almost filiform leaves, 3 or 4 inches long, and a slender stem, 

 about the same height, bearing 2 or 3 short narrow leaves and a single 

 terminal white flower. Perianth-segments about 4 or 5 lines long, 

 spreading, broadly oblong, marked inside with 3 longitudinal reddish 

 lines, and a small yellow spot at the base. Stamens shorter than the 

 perianth, and inserted at its very base. L. montana, Salisb. 



In rocky mountains, in northern and Arctic Europe, Asia, and America, 

 and in the high mountain-ranges of Europe and Asia. Very rare in 

 Britain, and only on the Snowdon range. Fl. June, 



X. GAGEA. GAGEA. 



Bulbous herbs, with 1 or 2 radical leaves, and a short stem, with a 

 terminal raceme of yellow flowers flattened into a corymb, with a leaf- 

 like green bract under each pedicel, and sometimes a leaf below the 

 flowers. Perianth spreading, with distinct segments. Stamens inserted 

 at their very base, with filiform, not flattened filaments. Seeds of 

 Ornithogalum. 



A small European and Asiatic genus, closely allied to Ornithogalum, 

 with which it was formerly united, but distinguished by the stamens, 

 the yellow flowers, and more leafy bracts. 



1. G. lutea, Ker. (fig. 1040). Yellow G. —Bulbs small, forming 

 usually two new ones every year, one on each side of the old one. 

 Leaves 1 or very rarely 2, linear, pointed and curved like those of a 

 Tulip. Stem slender, rarely 6 inches high. Flowers 3 or 4, in a flat 

 raceme, almost contracted into an umbel ; the leaf -like bracts as long- 

 as the pedicels or longer. Perianth-segments about 6 lines long, very 

 spreading, narrow-oblong, yellow, with a green back. G. fascicularis, 

 Salisb. 



In meadows and fields, especially in sandy soils, over the greater part 

 of Europe and temperate Asia, except the extreme north. Occurs in 

 several parts of England, and the Lowlands of Scotland, but rarely, and 

 not found in Ireland. Fl. spring. Continental botanists distinguish as 

 species several forms, according as to whether there are 1, 2, or 3 bulbs 

 at the time of flowering (if 1 only, it is the old bulb still remaining 

 entire, the new ones commencing only, or not yet visible ; if 3, the 2 

 new ones are fully formed, spreading out horizontally before the old 

 one is absorbed ; if 2, the old one is fully absorbed, leaving only a 

 shrivelled stem between the 2 new ones), and some slight differences 

 in the breadth, and obtuse or pointed ends of the perianth-segments, 

 and it is probable that similar variations may be found in the British 

 specimens. 



