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ISO 118. Gagea. 15. ASPHODELEiE. 
VII. 118. GAGEA. R. A. Salisbury. Gage . 
Perigonium 6-sepaIed, connivent at bottom, spreading- 
above, persisting ; outer sepales herbaceous, inner petaloid ; 
stamens 6 ; filaments flattish, inserted at the bottom of the 
sepales, not dilated ; stigma clavate, blunt ; capsule ovate, 
3-sided; seeds many, roundish. — Root small, bulbose; leaves 
few, obtuse, mucronate, villous \ flowers yellow, corymbose; 
peduncles angular. 
Gagea fascicularis. Bundle gage . 
Coryrtibus many-flowered ; peduncle smooth, naked below, 
fascicled ; sepales elliptical, lanceolate ; scape angular ; 
radical leaves solitary. 
Ornithogalum lufeum. Park. Parad. 140; Ilaii Syn. 372, 1„ 
Ornithogalum luteum, seu Cepe agraria, Ger. em. 165. 
Ornithogalum pratense, Pers. in Uster. N. B.A. 5, 8. 
Gagea fascicularis, Salisb . Ann. Bot . 555. 
Yellow star-of-Bethlehem. 
Moist shady places ; perennial ; April. 
Bulb small ; stem 6 in. high, erect ; radical leaves mostly 
single; stem leaves 2, unequal, fringed ; fringe white ; co~ 
rymbus 5 or 7-flowered. 
/3. multiplex . Stem-leaves 3 or 4, unequal. 
VIII. 119. MOLY. Moly . 
Perigonium 6-sepaled, spreading ; stamens 6, affixed above 
the base of the sepales, all threadlike, not dilated at bot- 
tom, flat ; style nearly 3-sided ; stigma acute ; capsule 
3-sided ; cells deeply parted ; axis threadlike, remaining 
after the opening of the valves ; seed 1, rarely 2 or 3, 
roundish ; corculum peripherical, more than half the length 
of the perisperm, curved or spiral ; spermodermis simple.— 
Root tunicate ; bulb simple ; leaves radical, sheathing, flat, 
linear or lanceolate ; flowers umbelled, lax, terminal, white 
or yellow ; spathe bivalve, lanceolate, membranaceous ; 
Iraclece 0 ; scape mostly angular. 
Moly latifolium . Broad-leafed moly . 
Leaves ovate, lanceolate, petiolate ; scape 3-sided. 
Allium sylvestre latifolium, Rati Syn. 370,5. 
Allium ursinum, Ger. em. 179 ; Lin. S. P. 431. 
Woods and damp fields ; perennial; May and June. 
Bulbs attenuated, oblong; leaves acute, ribbed; scape 
upright ; spathe deflected, shorter than the peduncles. 
