Puate XXXVIII. 
‘ORNITHOGALUM wnorans, Linn. 
Natural Order Litiacez. 
. Section of genus Ornithogalum having flowers in racemes. 
Gen. Cuar.—Divisions of perianth persistent, white or greenish. 
Stamens inserted on the receptacle, slightly adherent to the bases of 
the divisions of the perianth. Pedicels not jointed. 
Spec. Cuar.—F lowers unilateral, nodding ; bracts lanceolate, three 
times as long as the pedicels. Stamens 3 short, 8 long; filaments 
emarginate, petaloid, with the anther placed in the notch. Capsule 
broadly oval, 6-ribbed. Leaves linear, channelled. 
Ornithogalum nutans, Linn. Sp. Plant. p. 441; Gren. et Godr. FI. 
de Fr. ui. 189 ; Woods, Tour. Fl. p. 369. 
Hasitat.—Meadows in Sospello Valley. April. 
Remarks.—Ornithogalam nutans, Linn., is a plant of very wide 
range, and appears to have considerable power of naturalizing itself in 
countries into which it is introduced. It is perhaps to this faculty that 
it owes its place in English and some other floras. It is munch spread 
over central Hurope, from the Baltic to the Mediterranean, growing in 
Gottland, Denmark, Belgium, Germany, Austria, and Hungary. It 
reaches also from Castile in Spain, through France, Italy, Croatia, 
Hungary, Transylvania, Greece, and Asia Minor, to the south of Russia 
(Nyman, Syll. Fl. Eur. p. 371). There are dried specimens in the 
Hookerian Herbarium at Kew, gathered among the crops at Smyrna, 
at Arsa, in southern Anatolia, communicated by Professor Forbes, 
and one extracted from the Aucher-Hloy Herbier d’Orient, found at 
Moglah. 
EXPLANATION OF Piare XXXVIII.—Fig. 1, one of the longer 
stamens. 
