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* ORNITHOGALUM latifólium. 
Broad-leaved Ornithogalum. 
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HEXANDRIA MONOGY NIA: 
Nat. ord. LILIACEE. 
ORNITHOGALUM. Supra, vol. 8. fol. 158. 
O. latifolium; racemo longissimo conico, filamentis subulatis, pedunculis infe- 
pius patentissimis flore multotiés longioribus, foliis latċ ligulatis sublan- 
ceolatıs. 
O. latifolium. Linn. sp. pl. 440. Römer & Schultes. Syst. Veg. 7. 514. 
Bot. Mag. t. 876. ‘* Jacq. coll. 2. 318. ic. rar. t. 424,” 
O. maximum. Clus. hist. append. 257. 
“ Stellaris latifolia. Manch.” 
This plant, not now uncommon in gardens, does not ap- 
pear to have had its native country ascertained. | Linnaeus 
says Egypt and Arabia, probably upon the statement of 
Clusius that he received it out of Italy, under the name of 
Ornithogalum arabicum, Lilium. alexandrinum, and Byzan- 
tinum. Mr. Ker adds Hungary according to some persons. - 
But no notice is taken of it by Forskahl; it does not occur 
among the herbaria of Traill or Bové from Egypt, of Fischer 
from Arabia, or of Colonel Chesney from Mesopotamia ; 
Reichenbach takes no notice of it in his very extensive Flora 
excursoria, nor can I find any authentic trace of it elsewhere. 
The only Egyptian Ornithogalum I have met with appears to 
be O. umbellatum. O. garganicum, found by Tenore in the 
kingdom of Naples, seems the nearest approach to it; and 
* See folio 1853. 
