Bellevalia dubia, (Guss.) Reichenb.

2. B. dubia (Guss.) Reichenb. , Fl. Germ. Excurs. 105 (1830).

Scape up to 40 cm. Leaves 2-5, procumbent, longer than scape, Ungulate. Racemes cylindrical, 10- to 30-flowered; pedicels 5-8 mm. Perianth 5-5-8 mm, campanulate, bluish-violet or dark green at anthesis, later brownish, the lobes whitish, with green veins, c. ł as long as tube, ovate. Fruiting raceme cylindrical; pedicels erecto-patent or horizontal. 2n = 8. Grassy places and cultivated ground. C. & E. Mediterranean region.?Cr Gr It Ju Si. Plants from the Balkan peninsula, described by Freyn, Flora (Regensb.) 68: 95 (1885), as ' B. boissieri spec , vel subspec. nova’, but apparently with no valid name, tend to be smaller than elsewhere in the range with somewhat narrower leaves and smaller flowers. They overlap in all characters with 2 and are sometimes regarded as a subspecies of it. They have 2n = 8.