Abstract
Pancratium maritimum L. (Family Amaryllidaceae, Tribus Eucharideae) is a bulbous geophyte with large white, funnel-shaped, very fragrant, short-lived flowers with concrescent stamens. At one time the plant, called lily of the sea, lily of the coast or white lily, a native species of the sandy coasts of the Mediterranean Sea, abounded on the Greek coasts but today, it is rather rare. Its bulb is probably the wool-carrier of Theophrastos which "... grows on the seashores but has wool under the first tunics" (History of Plants, 7, 13, 8 in Kavvadas 1956-1964, 6, 2963).
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