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Ornithogalum Latifolium. Broad- 

 Leaved Star of Bethlehem. 



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C/#/} a«^ Order. 

 HeXandria Monogynia. 



Generic Character. — ^/'^. iV"™- 653, atque Obs. ai 746. 



Specific CharaEler and Synonyms. 



ORNITHOGALUM /a///b///^foliislanceolato-oblongis, con- 



cavis, ante anthefin fuperius emarcef- 

 centibus ; floribus numerofiffimis, re- 

 motiufculis, pedunculis patentiffimis, 

 bra&eas ter-quater excedentibus ; fta- 

 minibus piftillo aequalibuspetalis 2~3plo 

 brevioribus. G. 



ORNITHOGALUM latifolium. Sp. PI. 440. Suppl. 202. 



Horl. Kew. 1. 441. Jacq. Ic. Rar. 2. 

 /. 424. Coll. 2. 318. mild. Sp. PL 2. 

 119. 



ORNITHOGALUM maximum. Cluf. Hift. App. cclvii. 



ORNITHOGALUM vel Lilium alexandrinum floribus albis 



innumerabilibus. Swert. Floril. 58. 



ORNITHOGALUM latifolium et maximum. Bauh. Pin. 70. 



ORNITHOGALUM maximum album. Park. Parad. 135. 



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This very ornamental fpecies has been an inhabitant of our 

 gardens ever fmce the days of Parkinson j and being a free 

 blower, of eafy culture, and tolerably hardy, is now very com- 

 mon ; flowers about June. Leaves from a foot to a foot and 

 half high, about two inches broad ; of a bright yellowifh green 

 While young ; begin to rife from the ground in January, but are 



withered 



