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* ORNITHOGALUM latitolium. 



Broad-leaved Ornithogalum. 



IIEXANDUIA MOSOOYKIA. 

 Nut. Old. LiLlACEX. 



ORNITHOGALUM. Supra, vol. 8. fol. 158. 



O. latifolmm; racemo longissimo couico, tilamentis subulatis, pedunculis infe- 

 rioribus patentissimis flore multoties longioribus, follis late ligulatis sublan- 

 ceolatis. 



O. latii'olium. Linn. sp. pi. 440. Rbmer Sf Schultes. Si/sl. Veg. 1. .')14. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 876. " Jacj. coll. 2. 318. ic. rar. t. 424." 



O. maximum. Clus. hist, append. 257. 



" Stellaris ktifolia. Mcench." 



This plant, not now uncommon in gardens, does not ap- 

 pear to have had its native country ascertained. Linnajus 

 says Egypt and Arabia, probably upon the statement of 

 Clusius that he received it out of Italy, under the name of 

 Ornithogalum arabicum, Lilium alexandrinuni, and Byzan- 

 tinum. Mr. Ker adds Hungary according to some persons. 

 But no notice is taken of it by Forskahl ; it does not occur 

 among the herbaria of Traill or Bove from Egypt, of Fischer 

 from Arabia, or of Colonel Chesney from Mesopotamia ; 

 Reichenbach takes no notice of it in his very extensive Flora 

 excursoria, nor can I find any authentic trace of it elsewhere. 

 The only Egyptian Ornithogalum I have met, with appears to 

 be O. umbellatum. O. garganicmn, found by Tenore in the 

 kingdom of Naples, seems the nearest approach to it ; and 



* See folio 1 853. 



