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142. Yellow Star of Bethlehem (d). In the wood-bottom at the 

 weft end of the Reflory-Den at Simonburn, plentifully. The root is a 

 fmall, futculent, round bulb. It fends forth two leaves, eight 

 or nine inches long, half an inch broad, and ribbed lengthways. 

 The ftalk is angulated, eight inches high, with two fmall nar- 

 row leaves near the top. The flowers are ftellate, on pedicles, 

 in a kind of umbel. They are green on the outfide, bordered 

 with yellow, and of a fair yellow within. The tube is a trian- 

 gular prifm ; the ftigma divided into three parts. It flowers in 

 April and May. The flowers are very beautiful under a warm 

 fun, being then reflex ; but are expanded at other times, except 

 in-cold, cloudy, or haizy weather, and at night, when they clofe 

 till the morning, and fun-mine appears. 



143. Little purple-floivered Orchis (e). In Crag-clofe, near Barives~ 

 ford. The flowers are in a very fhort, compact fpike, elegantly 



(d} Bulbus fylveftris. Dud. Pempt. p. 222. Cluf. Pann. p. 19. Hift. p. 188. Ornitho- 

 galum luteum. Tabern. p. 633. bene. C. B. Pin. p. 71. Raj. Hift. p. 1154. Syn. iii. p. 372. 

 Town. Inft. Bulbils fylveftris FUCHSII, flore luteo, f. Ornithogalum luteum. /. B. ii. p. 623. 

 Ornithogalum luteum majus floriferum. Hift. Oxon. ii. p. 381. f. 4. t. 13. f. 12. Stel- 

 laris arvenfis, flore luteo umbellato. Dill. GifT. p. 38. Ornithogalum fcapo angulofo diphyl- 

 ]o pedunculis umbellatis fimplicibus. Linn. Flo. Suec. n. 270. Sp. PI. 306. Hill. Nat. 

 Hift. PI. p. 376. Ornithogalum fcapo diphyllo, pedunculis fimplicibus terminatricibus, 

 filamentis omnibus fubulatis. Linn. Hort. Cliff, p. 124. Royen. lugdb. p. 31. Phalangium 

 radice fubrotunda, foliis & floribus umbellatis. Hall. Helv. p. 293. 



(e) Orchidis genus rarius & elegans. Gefn. Tab. Coll. p. 93. Orchis PANNONICA iv. 

 Cluf. Hift. p. 268. Pann p. 236. bene. Raj. Hift. p. 1215. Syn. iii. p. 277. Orchis 

 minor flore guttato fanguineo. Cam.Uort. p.m. Cynoforchis militaris pratenfis humilior. 

 C. B. Pin. p. 81. Orchis militaris pratenfis humilior. Hift. Oxon. iii. p. 492. t. 12. f. 20. 

 non bene. Tourn. Inft. p. 432. Vaill. Bot. Paris, p. 149. t. 31. f. 35, 36. Orchis mili- 

 taris minima RIVINI. Rupp. Flo. Jen. p. 279. t. 2. f. i. Orchis bulbis indivifis, nedarii 

 labio quadrifido pun&is fcabro, cornu obtufo, petalis diftinftis. Linn. Flo. Suec. n. 726. 

 A&. Upf. 1740. p. n. Al. Stoch. 1741. p. 207. Orchis radicibus fubrotundis, fpica 

 denfa, crufculis labelli ampliter divergentibus. Hall. Helv. p. 263. 



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