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ORNITHOGALUM fimbriatum 

 Hairy-leaved Star of Bethlehem. 



BEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Asphodeli. Jussieu gen. 51. Div. IV. Flores spicati. 



Radix bulbosa. Calyx (corolla nob.) sexpartitus, bast sta- 

 minifer. 



AsPHODBLB^ Brown prod. 1. 274. 

 ORNITHOGALUN. Suprd vol. 2. fol. 158. 



O. ^mbriatum, raceme subcoiymboso paucifloro, pedunculis 



elongatis patentissimis : foliis linewibus scapo pedunculisque hii 



Marsck. bieb.fior. taur. cauc. 1. 276. 

 Ornithogalum fiinbriatum. Willd. in der gesdh natmf. fremtd. zu Berl. neue 



Mckrijie. 3. 420. Penoon syn. 1. 364. 

 Oniithogalo umbellato affine foliis pilosis. Pattas m turn, ad.petrop. 10. 309. 

 Oniitiiogaluin samium Tillosum umbellatum album. Toumej. cor. 26; (^fide 



Marsck, bieb.) 



Folia radicaUa, linearia, acntOf margine mUit cUiata, (v. nunc m xpoii- 

 taneis extu* omntnd vUloaa). Scapus ereclus vix digitalis. Flores facie et 

 colore Ornithogali umbellati; pedunculi 6nu CmMc plvre$)tmi^ori pa- 

 tentes iitbaltemi in apice scapi. Bractea lanceokUa acuta membrtMOcea/eri 

 loHgitudine peduncuU. WiUd. in loc. cit. Sintillimvm Ornithogalo om- 

 bdlato, ut pneter kirsiUiem vix uUd aliS notd distinguendum. PiUfoliomM 

 leapt pedunctttorum crebri patuH albi. Marsch. bieb. loc. cit 



Native of the Crimea, and very recently introduced tnto 

 this country from Moscow, by the Horticultural Society, in 

 whose garden the present drawing was taken in May last. 



It comes so close to our " Common Star of Bethlehem " 

 (Ornithogalum umbellatum):, that we can scarcely perceive 

 any difference beyond the fur on the leaves, scape, and 

 peduncles, which in umbellatum are all smooth. In some 

 samples the leaves are only fringed, in others furred all over 

 the underside ; in some the scape is only two-flowered, in 

 others several-flowered, the flowex*s disposed in a corymb. 

 Numerous native samples in various states of inflorescence 

 are preserved in the liimbertian Herbarium. 



Both this and umbellatum were found growing together 

 at the skirts of forests and thickets in the Crimea, by that 



