Ornithidium 



( 145 ) 



Ornithogalum 



beneath a bell-glass, over bottom heat. Soil, three 

 parts fibrous peat, one part loam, and .sand. 

 Principal Species : 



ri>,vint';l, 10', Jy., bl. 



ilasycarpa, 10', Jy., bl. 



ORNITHIDIUM. 



Small Orchids (or/I. Orchidacea') with pretty but 

 not very effective flowers. They have a creeping 

 habit, and may be propagated by division when 

 new growth commences. They succeed in an 

 intermediate house, fixed to blocks of wood or 

 even to virgin cork, with a little fibrous peat and 

 sphagnum about the roots. Give water freely at 

 all seasons. 



Principal Species : 



fuscus, 8", ant., brownish yel., striped pur. (syn. 

 Aerides difforme). 



ORNITHOGALUM. (STAB OP BETH- 



LKIIEM.) 



Hardy and greenhouse bulbous plants (ord. 

 Liliacese). Propagation, by offsets and seeds. 

 Soil, sandy loam for the hardy species, and loam 

 and peat for the tender ones. Nearly all succeed 

 as pot plants, the taller growers lending them- 

 selves to this mode of culture. A warm border 

 is best for the hardy forms. 



OBNITHOOALUM AKABICCM. 



Principal Species : 

 coccineum, G", Jy., crim. 

 (//. Cyiubiilium coc- 

 ciueum) . 



Other Species : 



album (now Caraaridium 



ochroleucum). 

 namim, 2", spr. , yellowish. 



densum, 3", sum., wh., 

 pur. (//. Maxillaria 

 densa) . 



Sophrouitis, 3", sum., red. 



ochraceum, 3", sum., yel., 



pur., wh. 

 strumatuni, 3", spr., wh. 



Principal Species and Varieties : 



ORNITHOCEPHALUS. 



A genus of about twenty species of tropical 

 American Orchids (ord. Orchidacese) scarcely any 

 of which are of horticultural value. The one 

 sometimes cultivated grandiflorus, G", June, white 

 and green is best grown in a small pan suspended 

 near the roof in an intermediate house, using peat 

 and sphagnum as compost. 



ORNITHOCHILUS. 



Probably only two species constitute this genus 

 (ord. Orchidacere), and both are of small growth. 

 They do best in baskets, in peat and sphagnum, 

 suspended in a moist stove. 



Ornif/iari-itm (see Sari'ucliilns). 



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arabicum, 2.$', sum., grh., 

 wh., ovary blk., frag- 

 rant (*J/M. corymbosum, 

 see figure). 



biflorum, H', Ap., grh., 

 greenish wh. (*//" 

 chloroleucum). 



lacteum, 2V, Je., wh. 

 {*f/n. conicum). 



longebracteatum. 2', My., 

 grh., greenish wh. 

 There is a variegated 

 form. 



nutaus. 1', spr., hdy., wh. 



boucheanum, a fine 

 var. 



Other Species : 

 anonmlum (now Driinia 



anomala). 

 capitatum, 1', Je.. grh.. 



wh. (now Drginea 



capitata) . 

 caudatum. 3', My., grh., 



wh., grn. 

 chloroleiioum (tee bi- 



riorum). 



pyrenaicum, 2', Je., hdy., 

 yel., grn. 



SanndenUe, 3', sum., 

 wh. , tinged grn. at 

 hack. 



thyrsoides, I. 1 .', Je., grh., 

 yel. A variable species, 

 having several vars. , of 

 which aureum and 

 flavissimum are the 

 best. 



umbellatum. 1', My. ,hdy. . 

 silvery wh., grn. and 

 wh. reverse. Leicht- 

 linii and splenuens are 

 charming forms. 



cnnicum ( laeteum). 



corymhosum (tee arabic- 

 um), 



Eekloni, grh. 



fitnhriatum, S", Feb., 

 Mch., h<ly., greenish 

 wh. 



gramiuifoliiun, 1 ', Jy., 



