Japan Flora: Bulbs ovoid, 8-10 mm. long, with a dark brown outer coat; radical leaves solitary, linear, loosely involute, 10- 20 cm. long, about 2 mm. wide, soft and rather thick, obtuse; scapes 8-15 cm. long; inflorescence bracts 2, the lower one linear, 2-3 cm. long, the upper one 7-15 mm. long; flowers (l-)2-5, the pedicels 1-2.5 cm. long, slender, the tepals yellow, changing to greenish yellow in fruit, narrowly oblong or broadly oblanceolate, obtuse, 7-9 mm. long; capsules globose, about 5 mm. wide. Apr. Meadows along rivers in low­ lands.

Hokkaido, Honshu; rare. Plants of the s. Kuriles and Hokkaido are distinguished as Gagea vaginata Paschcr.