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ORNITHOGALUM marginatum. 
White-edged Ornithogalum. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. LILIACEZ. 
ORNITHOGALUM, L. Calyx corollaceus, 6-sepalus, regularis, per- 
sistens ; sepala ima basi connata, pluri-(3-7)-nervia, subæqualia, patentia. 
Stamina 6, ime basi sepalorum inserta (subhypogyna Endl.) Filamenta 
complanata, apice subulato-angustata, interdum 3 interiora paulo latiora et 
longiora. Anthere biloculares introrsæ, oblongæ vel lineari-oblongæ, basi 
bifidæ, dorso affixæ, tardius incumbentes. Ovarium liberum, sessile, trilocu- 
lare; ovula in loculis complura (6-18), biseriata, horizontalia, anatropa. 
Stylus erectus. Stigma capitato-trilobum, rarius obtusum, integrum. Cap- 
sula membranacea, trigastra, apice rotundata, vertice depressa, trilocularis, 
superne loculicido-trivalvis. Semina in loculis pauca vel plura, biseriata, 
oblique obovata, sæpe pressione mutua angulata (ovato-subglobosa v. angu- 
lata Nées ab Esenb.) ad hilum tuberculo rostrata rhaphe laterali angulato- 
prominente notata, reticulata (rugolosa Nees ab Esenb.), nigra nitida; festa 
membranacea (subcoriacea Gertn.) albumini carnoso (farinoso duro Gærtn.) 
adnata, basi ad hilum substipitato-relaxata. Embryo axilis, rectus (leviter 
curvatus Gertn.) nunc cylindraceus, albumine dimidio brevior; nunc minutus 
cylindraceo-oblongus; radicula hilum attingens. Herbae bulbosæ, scapi- 
gere; bulbus tunicatus. Folia carnosula striato-nervosa. Scapus apice 
racemoso vel corymboso-multiflorus rarius paucifforus. Flores pedicellati, soli- 
tarii erecti, albi, viriduli, rarius lutei, aurantiaci vel miniati; pedicellis 
bractea membranacea stipatis. Differta Scilla tantummodo ob flores nun- 
quam ccerulescentes neque rubescentes, a Drimia ob calycem inferne non 
conniventem in tubum et ob bulbum compactius tunicatum. Gawl. in Bot. 
Reg. p. 158.—Inter Hyacintheas quasi Phalangium refert. Kunth En. plant. 
iv. p. 349. 
O. marginatum; folis ascendentibus latiusculis canaliculatis margine nec 
medio albis scapo brevi corymboso longioribus, pedunculis inferioribus 
ascendentibus bracteis quadrupló scapo tripló longioribus in fructu in- 
curvis, sepalis petalisque dorso viridibus subconformibus oblongis ob- 
tusis, filamentis oblongis apiculatis alternis brevioribus æquilatis. 
We are unable to trace this plant in the writings of 
Botanists. It approaches O. refractum and exscapum, but 
both those species have a white stripe in the middle of their 
leaves, which do not appear to be white edged. In the 
former, too, the flower-stalks are hardly longer than the bracts ; 
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