Japan Flora: Bulbs narrowly ovoid, the outer coat rather firm, gray-brown, entire or nearly so, obscurely striate with fine longitudinal cells; leaves 2-3, shorter than the scape, terete, hollow, slender； scapes 40-50 cm. long, often purplish below, terete; spathe broadly ovoid, abruptly acute; flowers many, rose, narrowly campanulate, the pedicels 7-10 mm. long, the tepals lanceolate, acuminate above, 9-12(-14) mm. long; stamens 1/2-2/3 as long as the tepals, not toothed; style not exserted. May-June.

Hokkaido, Honshu. Siberia to E. Europe, and N. America.

var. foliosum Regel. bulbs ovoid; tepals 5-8(-10) mm. long, distinctly shorter than the pedicels, filaments equaling to slightly shorter than the tepals. May-June. Mountains; Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku. Siberia.

var. yezomonticola Hara. Scapes 10- 20 cm, long; leaves slender; umbels 2-3 cm. wide, the pedi­cels 3-8 mm. long, the tepals 6-8 mm. long, 1.5-2.5 mm. wide; stamens 4-5 mm. long. July-Aug. Hokkaido.

var. caespitans Ohwi. Closely resem­bles var. foliosum, the bulbs broadly ovoid, densely caespitose, semi-epigeal. Honshu (Shimotsuke Prov.); rare.