THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 
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of Good Hope, 1757. Greenhouse. See Fig. 778. (B. M. 1164; 
Ref. B. 20.) There are two or three vabiation of this species : 
in album, the flowers are pure white, with a dark centre, and 
Dr kela I T produced in tine spikes ; in aureum, a hand- 
, under name 1 333 the flowers are 
* a — gg pasar in flavescens (B. R. 305), the flowers are 
: -colour ; in favissimum ( 45 B. R. 505), the flowers are of a 
much deeper yellow than in the type. 
Fia. 778. LEAVES AND INFLORESCENCE OF ORNITHOGALUM 
THYRSOIDES. 
O. umbellatum (umbelled).* Star of Bethlehem. fl. of a satiny- 
white on the i , and green striped with white without, dis- 
in an umbel or b; scape about bin. high. May. 
six to nine, ascendent, 6in. to _ Piong, łin. broad. Europe 
(naturalised in Britain). One of the showiest and best species. 
See Fig. 779. TF. D. 1266; J. F. A. 43; Sy. En. B. 1524.) 
unifolium (one-leaved). f. 3 white; raceme sub- 
spicate, three to six-flowered ; pe Sin. to bin. long. June. 
J. solitary, linear, 3in. to bin. kai P broad. Gib tar, 1805. 
(h. M. 935.) Of this s , there is a taller and more robust 
ty, concinnum, * two, rarely three or five, leaves, and 
an eight to ate flowered raceme, (B. M. 953.) 
O. virens (gree é white; raceme dense, thirty to fifty- 
flowered ; see IM. — high, erect, terete. June. Z. five or 
six, fleshy- her — linear-lorate, 1 to 2ft. long, jin. to 
14) Cape of Good Hope, 1 Greenhouse, (B. R. 
O. vittatum (striped). f. yellow, n at back; raceme loose, 
six to os sin. to ‘hn. long, luin. broad; scape 
an, G in. to din. high. June. ve or six, sub-terete 
fleshy-herbaceous, in. to 8in. 8 in. broad. Cape of G 
pe A 5 Greenhouse. (B. M , under name of Albuca 
ORNITHOGLOSSUM (from ornis, ornithos, a bird, 
and glossa, a tongue; alluding to the resemblance existing 
in the petals), Sxxs. Cymation, Lichtensteinia. Orb. 
Liliaceæ. A genus comprising two species (or well-marked 
varieties) of greenhouse bulbous plants, natives of South 
Africa. Flowers long-stalked, solitary in the axils of the 
floral leaves or bracts, in loose, terminal, often few- 
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Ornithoglossum continued. 
flowered racemes; perianth segments distinct, linear or 
linear-lanceolate. Stem leaves lanceolate or narrow, con- 
tinuous with the sheath ; upper floral ones linear. Stem 
simple, erect. Ornithoglossums thrive in sandy loam, 
and require but little care. When growing, they must, 
of course, be supplied with water; but after flowering, 
the pots may be stored in a dry, ‘cool place until it is 
time to repot the following spring. “We find, upon 
trial, that all the Cape bulbs may be grown with 
advantage in the open ground, by making up a bed of 
light, sandy soil, and planting the bulbs from 4in. to 
Sin. deep, according to their size; they may be planted 
in April, and, after they have done flowering, may be 
taken up and kept dry till the following spring, in 
the same manner as Tigridia; or, if left in the ground 
all the winter, they will require to be covered with 
some dry litter or old tan, so as to keep the frost from 
the bulbs” (Sweet). 
O. glaucum (glaucous). fl. green, edged with purplish-brown, 
scentless ; th segments equal, subulate-lanceolate, 1 
shortly unguiculate; scape leaty, angular. December, L. oppo- 
site, alternate ; radical ones close, ingest, channelled, lanceolate, 
* in . recurved, Bulb Ijin. high, ovate-pyramidal. 
(A. B. R. 255; B. M. 994, under name of Melan- 
0. . —— (wave-leaved). with purplish markings, 
pene, gern yn at night, but — — during the day; perianth 
narrow-lanceolate, acute. ir es rg chad a little above 
4 base; scape short and ‘stout, leaf ay ee ber. J. radical, 
distichous, lower ones broadest, mate, pering to a point; 
margins brownish-purple, undulated. Root a bulb-tuber, large, 
solid, and covered with a brown shell. k. Ein. 1825. (S. B. F. G. 
ORNITHOPTERIS. See Pteris. 
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FIG. 779, ORNITHOGALUM UMBELLATUM. 
