U2 HEXANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Ornithogalum. 



minal, versatile, shortened after the pollen is shed. Germ. 

 superior, angular, with intermediate furrows. Sfi/Ie awl- 

 shaped, erect, permanent. Siigma obtuse. Caps, round- 

 ish, with 3 prominent angles, and 3 intermediate furrows, 

 3 cells, and 3 valves with central partitions. Seeds seve- 

 ral, roundish. 

 Bulb coated, roundish. Leaves linear, mostly radical. In- 

 Jlorescence various. Petals white or yellow, never blue; 

 ereen at the keel. Flcmers without scent. 



1. O. luteum. Yellow Star of Bethlehem. 



Stem angular, with one leaf at the bottom, and one or two 

 at the top. Flower-stalks umbellate, simple, smooth. 



O. luteum. Liwn.Sp.PZ. 439. Wilkhv.2.\\2,. Fl.Br.362. Engl. 

 Bot.vA.t.2\. Hook. Scot. \02. Fl. Dan. t.37S. Baith. Pin.7l. 

 RaiiSyn.372. Lob. Ic.\49.f. Dalech. Hist. \5S3.f. Rndb. 

 Elys. V. 2. 139./. 3. 



O. pratense. Persoon in Usi. Annal. fasc. 11. 8. ^ 2./. 1. 



O. luteum, sive Cepe agraria. Ger. Em. 165./. 



O. Ttvppox^tujv. Renealm. Spec. 91. t. 90. 



Phalangium n. 1213. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 102. 



Bulbus agrestis. Trag. Hist. 740./. 737. 



B. sylvestris. Fuchs.Hist. \ 68./. 169. Dod. Pempt. 222. f. Dalech. 

 Hist. 1502./. 



In groves and pastures, rare. 



In woods about Oxford. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. In the northern 

 part of Yorkshire. Ray. Westmoreland. Richardson. Near 

 Derby. Mr. Whateley, and Mr. Haden. At Shipmeadow, near 

 Bungay. Mr. J. Ashby. 



Perennial. April. 



Bulb small. Stem solitary, from 4 to 6 inches high, unequally an- 

 gular, naked except at the summit, smooth. Radical /eq/ linear- 

 lanceolate, pointed, ribbed, keeled, upright, taller than the stem, 

 very rarely accompanied by another much more slender one. 

 Stem-leaves usually 2, sometimes more, just under the umbel, 

 unequal, similar to the radical leaf, but much shorter ; one of 

 them occasionally very minute ; their edges more or less fringed 

 with soft, loose hairs. Flower-stalks 3 or 4, sometimes more, 

 forming a simple, rarely a double, umbel, unequal, angular, 

 smooth, erect, all shorter than the largest of the adjoining leaves, 

 single-flowered. Fl. erect, yellow j tipped with green at the 

 inner side, and almost entirely green at the back. Stam. and Pist. 

 yellow. Style triangular. Several foreign species have been con- 

 founded with this, particularly 0. minimum of Linnaeus, O. spa- 

 thaceum of Willdenow, and O. arvense of Persoon, now figured 

 in Fl. Grcec, t. 332, all very distinct. 



