GA'GEA FASCICULA'RIS. 
BUNDLE-FLOWERED GAGEA. 
Class. Order. 
HEXANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
ASPHODELACE^. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Inhabits 
Britain. 
4 inches. 
April. 
Perennial. 
Woods. 
No. 606. 
The generic name, Gagea, was adopted in honour 
of Sir Thomas Gage, an indefatigable collector of 
rare European plants ; and, says Mr. Salisbury, 
whose liberality in distributing them places his 
name very high among those of his contemporaries. 
It is a pleasing task to register the actions of those 
men who are zealous in the pursuit of science, and 
who derive their chief gratification from the virtu- 
ous pleasure they afford others. They should ever 
be held up as models for the stimulus of future 
generations. 
Mr. Salisbury seems to have been led to the se- 
paration of Gagea and Ornithogalum, from the 
discrepancy of their inflorescence, or the mode in 
which their flowers are disposed ; observing that in 
the same genus we seldom find a real spike and 
corymb, fascicle and panicle, umbel and raceme, 
conjoined. 
The Gagea fascicularis is chiefly valuable on 
account of its early flowering. It wins our affec- 
tions when every sunbeam brings with it an excite- 
ment to floral love. It flourishes in a sandy soil, 
and may be increased by its offset bulbs. 
Loudon’s Ency. PI. 276. 
