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2. O pyrenaicum. Tall Star of Bethleheiii. 



Cluster very long. Filaments all dilated. Flower-stalks 

 equal, spreading; growing erect, and close-pressed, as 

 the fruit ripens. 



O. pyrenaicum. Linn. Sp. PL 440. mild. u. 2. 1 1 6. Fl. Br. 363. 



Engl. Bot. V. 7. t. 499. Abbot 76. Jacq. Austr. t. 103. 

 O. angustifolium majus. floribus ex albo virescentibus. Bauh.P'm. 



70. Rail %«. 372. Rudh. Elys. v. 2. 134./. 3. 

 O. majus ])rimum. C'liis. Hist. v. 1. lS7.f. 

 O. jDvrenaeum. Clus. Append. 2. ad cap. 33. Cur. Post. 21. 

 O. alterum. Camer. Epit.'M^} ; lowermostjig. 

 Asphodelus bulbosus. Dod. Pempt. 209./. (Jer. Em. 97. Dalech. 



Hist. 1589./. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 627./ 

 Phalangium n. 1210. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 101 ; excluding the reference 



to Reneaume. 

 Hyacintho-As[)hodelus. Loh. Ic. 93./ 



In pastures^ rare. 



In Sussex and Somersetshire. Ray. Between Eaton -Socon and 

 Thurleigh, Bedfordshire. Abbot. In Keyson Park wood, in that 

 coimty. Rev. T. O. Marsh. 



Perennial. June, July. 



Bulb ovate, whitish. Leaves several, all radical, long, spreading, 

 linear, roundly channelled, acute, smooth, their tips soon wither- 

 ing. Stalk central, 2 feet or more in heiglit, erect, round, smooth 

 and polished, terminating in a very long upright cluster, of nu- 

 merous greenish, spreading Jiowers, not remarkable for beauty. 

 Partial stalks simple, hardly an inch long, spreading while in 

 flower only, then erect. Bracteas awl-shaped, solitary at the 

 base of each stalk. Stam. all equally broad and short, each with 

 a slender point. Anth. oblong, incumbent. Style short. Caps. 

 ovate, with 3 furrows, erect, enveloped in the contracted, per- 

 manent, faded petals. 



3. O. umhellatum. Common Star of Bethlehem. 



Flowers corymbose; their partial stalks overtoj)ping the 

 main one. I'^ilaments dilated, tapering, entire. 



O. umbellatum. Linn. Sp. PI. 44 1 . mild. v. 2. 1 1 C. 11. Br. 364. 



Engl. Bot. r. 2. /. 130. Hook. Lond. t. 4."). Scot. 102. Jui^. 



Austr. t. 343. 

 O. n. 1215. Hall. Hist. V. 2. 103. 

 (). vulgare et vcrius, majus et minus. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. G30. Rnii 



.Sy/j.372. 

 (). umbellatum medium angustlfolium. Bauh. Pin. 70. Rudh. Eh/s. 



V.2. 131./. 4. 

 Ornithngalum. Cit,-. Pnt. 1C."». /'. Lol,. /<•. MS. /'. 



