HEXANDKIA— MONOGYNIA. Ornithogalum. Ill 



T.sylvestris. Linn. Sp. PL 438. Fl.Suec. ed.2. \06. n'iUd.v.2.96. 

 Fl. ^r.36I . Engl. Bot. v. 1 . t. 63. Hook. Lond. 1. 1 9. Scot. 101, 

 Gawl. in Curt. Mag. r, 30. t. 1202. Fl. Dan. i. 375. Redout. 

 Liliac. t. 1G5. 



T. n. 1236. Hall. Hist. y. 2. 1 15. 



T. minor lutea gallica. Bauh. Pin. 63. Rudb. Elys. v. 2. 110./. 5. 



T. minor lutea narbonensis. Magnol. Monsp. 272. 



T. narbonensis. Clus. Hist. v. \. 151./. 



T. bononiensis. Ger. Em. 138/ 



Narbonensis Lilio-Narcissus luteus montanus. Lob. Ic, 124./ 



In chalk-pits, but not common. 



In old chalk-pits at Carrow Abbey, near Norwich. Mr. Rose. Near 

 Bury. Sir T. G. Cullum, Bart. At Whipsnacle, Hertfordshire. 

 Rev. D. Jenks. At Melbury, near Shaftsbury ; and on Muswell 

 hill, Middlesex ; also in a field near Hamilton, Scotland, and 

 near Brechin. Hooker. 



Perennial. April. 



Bulb ovate, tumid on one side, brown. Stem perfectly simple, 

 nearly upright, about a foot high, round, smooth ; leafy about 

 the middle ; taper at the base. Leaves 2 or 3, a span long, al- 

 ternate, lanceolate, slightly keeled, smooth, rather glaucous, 

 tapering at each end, clasping the stem. Fl. somewhat droop- 

 ing, sweet-scented, bright yellow; externally greenish. Filam. 

 yellow, beset with short dense hairs at the bottom. Anth. yellow, 

 as long as the filaments, with yellow pollen. Stigma acutely 

 triangular, abrupt ; not dilated, nor downy, like the Garden 

 Tulip. 



Linnaeus and Haller thought this plant had escaped from gardens 

 in Sweden and Switzerland ; and such has been the opinion of 

 many botanists in England. It is however perfectly wild at 

 present, and extremely abundant in many old chalk-pits, though 

 the bulbs run so far into the ground that they rarely flower. 

 Nothing can be more distinct as a species. Mr. Ker, late Gawler, 

 observes that the bulbs send out lateral shoots, of a considerable 

 length, forming new bulbs at the extremity. See Hook. Lond. 



190. ORNITHOGALUM. Star of Beth- 

 lehem. 



Linn. Gen.\&Q. Juss. 53. Fl. Br.362. Tourn.t.203. Lam.t.242. 

 Gcertn. t.\7. 



Nat. Orel. Coro7iarice. Linn. 10. Asphadeli. Juss. 16. Four 

 folloM'ing genera the same. 



Cal. none. Pet. 6, inferior, lanceolate, erect in their lower 

 half, then spreading, somewhat thickened at the keel, 

 permanent, fading. Filam. erect, flattish, attached to tlie 

 petals, 3 of them at least broadest at the base. Anth. ter- 



