shortly united at base, but never as much as 1/3 height) Filaments quite glabrous even at base. Los now just beginning to unfold (but this cannot fall under 12" p192) Of the other pos, all seem ruled out except S.Caprea Resets definitely brown at tip and long silby hairy. 4-10-34 Populus X tremula L. Coats III 772, Bon 289, BIV 429. BMJCP 225, SVII 193. Fl & Tree on upper path from- Les Narcisses (above the Big-Dog house). Tree very handsome by covered with catkins (like grass elm, showing thread stigmas or green ovaries of female cups). Catkins 6-7 cm long. 4-10-34 Soldenella alpina h. Coats II 533, Bon 209, SVI/II 577 Fl under Populus tremula (see above) at height of ± 750 Meters. Note the linear appendage (sometimes split at apex) at tip of the flexible anthers; also that style is exserted from the unopened bud. 4-10-34 Scilla sibirica Andr. BMJCP 168, SVII 65. Fl. Val-Mont on path westward from 3rd fl. entrance in grass. Scape 6 3/4 in to lowest fl., finely ridged and in addition 2 angled with one side flat and the other rounded with the result that the scape is twisted at least one half turn. Resets 1-1 1/2 mm truncate, like little collars half encircling the pedicels. Fls 2. Perianth segments bright blue (slightly paler