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ORNITHOGALUM montanum. 



Mountain Ornithogalum 



HEXANDRIA MONOGYmA. 



Nat. ord. Liliace^. 



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O. montanum; bulbo solido sitnplici, foliis (3-5 Hn. latis) lato-linearibus plani- 

 uscuHs patulis apice distortis, floribus corymbosls, petalis linearl-Ianceolatis. 

 Gusson. prodr.Jl. sic. 1.413. Rom. et SchulL syst. veg. vii, 531. 1701 . 



O. montanum Tenor. Jl, neapoL p. 176. t. 33. synops. 172. 



0. patulum. Rafin. in Desv. Journ* bat. 4. 271. 



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A hardy bulbous plant, for which I have to thank the Hon 



W. F. Strangways, who has several times 



from the 



choice collection at Abbotsbury. It flowers in the latter end 

 of May and June. 



According to Signor Gussone it is a common plant, every 

 where, in the mountain pastures of Sicily, flowering in April 

 and May. Professor Tenore finds it in the kingdom of 

 Naples, on the mountains of the Abruzzi, Calabria, and 

 elsewhere. 



According to the 

 O. garganicumf in it 



mentioned Botanist it differs from 

 leaves never being ciliated, its more 



corymbose flowers, spreading peduncles, and flowers green 

 externally, with the edge only of the segments white. Berto- 

 loni distinguishes it from O. umbellatum by the bulbs of that 

 species being proliferous, the leaves altogether linear, chan- 

 nelled and longer than the scape, and by O. umbellatum 



being altogether a larger pla 



Balbis compares it with 



O. comosum, from which he finds it differ in its flatter 



* See Bot. Reg. vol. 22. fol. 1853 



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