Classification of Plants 



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About seventy species are found in South Africa. The large bulbs of 

 some species store so 1 much food that if the bulbs are gathered in early 



Fig, 235. — Ornithogalum thyrsoides, Jacq. 



Esq.) 



(Photographed by E. J. Steer, 



flowering time and placed in the dark, the flower will continue to open 

 for several months. These beautiful flowers so much in demand at 



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