GAGEA. — SCILLA. 419 
gLabrous.— -S". B. 130. R. x. 467.— L. exceeding the stem or 
filiform and shorter. Height 8—12 in. Fl. white with a broad 
green longitudinal band externally. Meadows and pastures. 
P. V. E. S. 
2. 0. p>/re7iainim (L.) ; fl. in an elongated narrow raceme, 
ped. at first spreading afterwards erect, bracts lanceolate-acu- 
minate, filaments dilated below with a long point, 1. soon fading 
linear grooved.—^. B. 499.— St. leafless, 2—3 feet high. Ra- 
ceme becoming very long. Fl. greenish white ; segments of the 
perianth variable in breadth. L. withering before the stalk 
appears, rarely contemporaneous. — Woods. Extremely com- 
mon near Bath. Sussex. Bedfordshire. P. VI. E. 
[3. 0. nutans (L.) ; fl. few in a lax nodding raceme, ped. 
falling short of the bracts, filaments flat membranous trifid, the 
lateral points acute, middle one very short bearing the anther, 
1. linear-laiiceolate. — E. B. 1997. Alhucea R. x. 473. — Height 
9 — 12 in. Fl. large, white, greenish externally. — Fields and 
orchards, rare. P. IV. V.] E. 
6. Ga'gea Salisb. 
1. G. lutea (Ker) ; radical 1. usually solitary linear-lanceolate 
flat, bracts 2 opposite, peduncles umbellate simple glabrous, 
segments of the perianth oblong blunt, bulb ovate solitary. — 
JE.B. 2,1. ^. X. 477. G.fascicidaris(Scdish.) Ornithogalwm 
(L.).— St. about 6 in. high, shorter than the leaves. Bracts 
lanceolate, one often exceeding the yellow flowers. Bulb 
often enclosing many small round oS'sets. — Woods and thickets, 
rare. P. III. IV. E. S. 
7. Scil'la Linn. Squill. 
1. S. autumndlis (L.) ; 1. linear many, raceme lax, peduncles 
ascending, 6raci!s O.—I!. B. 78. H. x. 463.— Height 4—6 in. 
Fl. purplish blue with a green line down the back, in perfection 
before the 1. appear. — Dry pastures in the South and West. 
P. VIII. Autumnal Squill. . E. 
2. S. ver'7ia (Huds.) ; 1. linear channelled hooded at the end 
many, raceme few-flowered corymbose, bracts lanceolate, as long 
as or longer than the peduncles. — E. B. 23. R. x. 463. — Height 
4 — 5 in. Fl. blue. L. as long as or longer than the stalk. — 
Western and Northern coasts. P. IV. V. Vernal Squill. E.S.I. 
