38 ' ORD. 4, ORNITHOGALE®. CIl. 2, Coronarie. Liriogame. 
runt. Folia 3-16, lineari-attenuata, glabra, carnosa. — Pedunculus 
axilla foliorum, teres. Spica 12-27-flora, densiuscula. Pedicelli 
breves. Bracteee scariose, basi plus minus aurite. Specie An- 
thericum Exuviatum, Filifolium Jace. Albuca Fugax Ker j in Bot. 
ond. 
In his Prolectiones, LINNE bs of Ornithoga lum, ** multa cum Allio 
habet communia, nisi e huic deest ;” an affini 
which I confess den unable to p perceive ; he then adds, ** Scilla et 
Ornithogalum adeo affines inter se, ut difficile distinguantur. sold 
latitudine filamentorum ;” and since his death, it has been one of 
the Opprobria Botanicorum, that no technical character could be 
found to separate them, except colour, the Flowers of Ornithogalum 
never being blue. When A. L. ng Jussrev's work was published in 
about were these; bu continue just as Lixxz left them, in the 
us Frenchman’s 4th section of Asphodeli, which he defines 
by “ Flores spicati a lbosa. Calyx basi stami- 
mifer;" he also eran = Sella L. ** Genus nimiwm affine se- 
quenti," meaning Ornithogalum, and removing Albuca to the other 
side of Scilla ; = is “plain therefo pas: nig he had never examin 
these E ants e r upon them Professor LINK, 
from. ‘Scilla, mentions the side nerves of their Petals, which are 
pretty strong in the former, but scarcely visible in the latter Genus, 
adding that if this character should be thought too vague and minute, 
all that remains to be done is to unite them. In every Ornithogalum 
are hypogynous, and haye no more adherence to the Petals, than 
what is the result of their opposite insertion, so that if a Petal be 
pulled off, the Filament still remains upon the Receptacle ; here 
pot Ileave in this order have Filaments completely perigynous ; 
e firmer substance of their Petals remaining entire after they 
sé and fleshy Leaves, either vegetating all the year, or surrounded 
arate 
nak 
immediately after they wither, not from the side of the Bulb before 
fresh ones appear; and the Petals continue expanded both day and 
night. It will be mentioned under Hemanthus, that a Bulb of that 
Genus from being accidentally wounded, produced a great many 
others ; and soon after this, finding some Bulbs of Ornithogalum 
idale L. turned up by the men who were digging the Flower 
borders I divided one horizontally a little above the middle, placing 
- a numerous Progeny, 
and I believe that all perennial Bulbs, Wii have thick fleshy Coats, 
