LILIACE. 195 
In fields and orchards. Rare, and not native, but naturalised in 
several places. I have specimens from Bury St. Edmunds, and 
Atchley, Suffolk. Besides this, the counties of Surrey, Norfolk, 
Bedford, Worcester, Hereford, Denbigh, Notts, Derby, York, and 
Durham, are recorded as containing stations in which it is more or less 
fully established. 
[England.] Perennial. Late Spring, early Summer. 
Bulb flowering when about the size of a nutmeg, with whitish coats. 
Leaves appearing very early in spring, about as long as the scape at 
the time of flowering, decaying before the fruit is mature. Scape 
9 to 18 inches high. Perianth leaves 1 to 12 inch long, elliptical, 
greenish white, with a very broad green stripe down the middle of 
the back. Filaments very broad, white, about half as long as the peri- 
anth leaves; anthers yellowish-white. Fruit pendulous, subglobular- 
ovoid, with 6 furrows, about the size of a small nutmeg, green, fleshy. 
Seeds about the size of No. 5 shot, globular, dark brown, papillose- 
rugose even when fresh. 
Drooping Star of Bethlehem. 
French, Ornithogale a fleurs pendantes. German, Nickende Vogelmilch. 
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SPECIES U—ORNITHOGALUM UMBELLATUM. Lim. 
Prats MDXXIV. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. X. Tab. CCCCXVII. Fig. 1019. 
Billot, Fl. Gall. et Germ. Exsice. No. 2918. 
Bulbs aggregated, producing a great number of offsets, which cause 
the plant to grow in clumps; these offsets produce leaves and stems 
while still attached to the parent. Leaves not decayed at the time of 
flowering, linear, tapering from about the middle to the apex, widely 
channelled above, bright green, with a rather broad white central 
stripe, glabrous. Flowers rather few, erect, in a regular corymb or 
corymbose raceme. Bracts ultimately much shorter than the pedicels. 
Pedicels longer than the flowers, ascending-erect in flower and 
spreading in fruit. Perianth leaves pure white, broadly green on the 
back, especially the three outer ones. Filaments subulate, ascending, 
entire at the apex. 
Var. a, genuinum. 
Pirate MDXXIV. 
O. umbellatum, Bor. Fl. du Centre de la Fr. ed. iii. Vol. I. p. 624. 
Leaves broadly linear, spreading-recurved when young. Flowers 5 
to 12. 
