“…Diploid H. bulbosum is a wild, perennial, cross-fertilizing species found in some hilly parts of Morocco, Tunisia, Cyrenaica, Italy, and Spain (LEIN, 1948;KATZNEL-SON and ZOHARY, 1967) and vernalization is needed to induce flowering (KOLLER and HIGH KIN, 1960). It is self-sterile (LEIN, 1948 ;LUNDQVIST, 1962), but it is easy to propagate plants vegetatively from bulbils produced at the bases of stems.…”