IBIDEM. 



835 



In moist meadows, woods, and grassy- 

 places, very common throughout North 

 America. In Britain only near Wood- 

 ford, county Galway in Ireland, where 

 there seems no ground to suppose that it 

 can have been introduced by human 

 agency. Fl. summer. The species is 

 commonly divided into two varieties, 

 S. anceps, Cav., with broad stem- wings 

 and the outer bract longer than the 

 flowers, and 8. mucronatum, Mich., 

 with narrow stem- wings and the outer 

 bract shorter than the flowers. The 

 Irish specimens are commonly referred 

 to the former, but they are in fact very 

 much nearer to the latter. 



Fig. 1006. 



IY. TRICHONEMA. TRICHONEMA. 



Small bulbous plants, with the foliage and flowers of Crocus, except 

 that the perianth-tube is very short, and the short stigmas are deeply 

 2-cleft. 



A genus of very few species, chiefly from the Mediterranean region. 



1. Common Trichonema. Trichonema Bulbocodium, Sm. 



(Eig. 1007.) 

 {Ixia, Eng. Bot. t. 254&) 



Bulb small, with shining brown coats. 

 Leaves very narrow and grass-like, 

 spreading, 3 or 4 inches long, sheathing 

 at the base. Elower-stalk not half so 

 long, with a single erect terminal flower, 

 almost sessile in a sheathing bract, and 

 of a pale purplish-blue, with a yellow 

 centre. Perianth nearf inch long, the seg- 

 ments half-spreading and rather pointed. 



In heaths and sandy places, chiefly 

 near the sea, nearly all round the Me- 

 diterranean, and up the western coasts 

 of Europe, to the Channel Islands and 

 Devonshire, where it is found in abun- 

 dance at the Warren, near Dawlish. Fl. 

 spring. Fi „ 10 07. 



