142 HEXANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Omithogaliim. 



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

 superior, angular, with intermediate furrows. Style awl- 

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

 ish, with 3 prominent angles, and 3 intermediate furrow^s, 

 3 cells, and 3 valves with central partitions. Seeds several, 

 roundish. 

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

 jiorescence various. Petals white or yellow, never blue ; 

 green at the keel. Flo-i^ers without scent. 



1. O. luteum. Yellow Star of Bethlehem. 



Stem angular, with one leaf at the bottom, and one or tw^o 

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



O. luteum. Li««. % P/. 439. W\lld.v.2A\Z. FL Br.362. EngL 



Bot. V. \.t.2\. Hook. Scot. 1 02. FL Dan. t. 378. Bauh. Pin. 7 1 . 



Raii Syn. 372. Loh. Ic. 149. f. Dcdech. Hist. 1583./ Rudb. 



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

 O. pratense. Persoon i?j Ust. Annal.fasc. 11.8. t.2.f. 1. 

 O. luteum, sive Cepe agraria. Ger. Em. 16.)./ 

 O. TTucpoyircfjv. Renealm. Spec. 9\. t. 90. 

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

 Bulbus agrestis. Trasr. Hist. 740. f. 737. 

 B. sylvestris. Fiichs. Hist. \6S.f. 109. 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. Ashhy. 



Perennial. April. 



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

 gular, nuked except at the summit, smooth. Radical Zeo/ 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. Floicer-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. F/. erect, yellow j tipped v/ith 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 O. minijnum of Linnceus, 0. spa- 

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

 in Fl. Grccc. t. 332, all verv distinct. 



