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* ORNITHOGALUM montanum. 



Mountain Ornithogalum. 



HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Liliace^e. 

 ORNITHOGALUM. Bot. Reg. vol. 2.fol. 158. 



O. montanum; bulbo solido simplici, foliis (3-5 lin. latis) lato-linearibus plani- 

 usculis patulis apice distortis, floribus corymbosis, petalis lineari-lanceolatis. 

 Gusson. Tprodr.fi. sic. 1.413. Rom. ei Schult. syst. veg. vii. 531. 1701 . 



O. montanum Tenor. Jl, neapol. p. 176. t. 33. synops. 172. 



O. patulum. Rafin. in Desv. Journ. bot. 4. 271. 



A hardy bulbous plant, for which I have to thank the Hon. 

 W. F. Strangways, who has several times sent it from the 

 choice collection at Abbotsbury. It flowers in the latter end 

 of May and June. 



According to Signor Gussone it is a common plant, every 

 where, in the mountain pastures of Sicily, flowering in April 

 and May. Professor Tenore finds it in the kingdom of 

 Naples, on the mountains of the Abruzzi, Calabria, and 

 elsewhere. 



According to the last mentioned Botanist it differs from 

 O. garganicum, in its leaves never being ciliated, its more 

 corymbose flowers, spreading peduncles, and flowers green 

 externally, with the edge only of the segments white. Berto- 

 loni distinguishes it from O. umbellatum by the bulbs of that 

 species being proliferous, the leaves altogether linear, chan- 

 nelled and longer than the scape, and by 0. umbellatum 

 being altogether a larger plant. Balbis compares it with 

 O. comosum, from which he finds it differ in its flatter leaves, 



* See Bot. Reg. vol. 22. fol. 1853. 



