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tary, radical leaf solitary, linear-lanceolate, flat, flower- 

 stalks smooth; woods, not uncommon. G. Liottardi, 

 Schult. ; flowers 1-5, flower-stalks villous, bracts 2, oppo- 

 site, radical leaves 1-2, tubular, bulbs 2; damp alpine 

 pastures, frequent. G. pratensis, Schult. (stenopetala, 

 Fr.); bulbs 2-3, without a common envelope, flowers 2-5, 

 stalk glabrous, radical leaf solitary, linear ; grassy places ; 

 Switzerland, Tirol, Lombardy, local. G. arvensis, Dum.; 

 bulbs 2, enclosed in a common envelope, flowers 2-20, 

 radical leaves usually 2, linear, channelled ; fields and 

 pastures, not uncommon. G. minima, Schult. ; flowers 

 2-5, perianth-segments acuminate, flower-stalk glabrous, 

 bract solitary, radical leaf solitary, linear, bulbs 2 ; alpine 

 pastures ; Switzerland, rare. G. saxatilis, Koch ; flowers 

 1-5, perianth-segments obtuse, radical leaves setaceous; 

 dry hills ; Valais, rare. 



15. ORNITHOGALUM, L. 



Flowers white or yellow, in racemes or corymbs, on a 

 leafless scape springing from a bulb; stamens hypogy- 

 nous, anthers dorsifixed ; sepals and petals distinct; leaves 

 all radical, linear. 



O. nutans } L. ; flowers large, white, with a green mid- 

 rib to each perianth-leaf, 5-9 in a unilateral raceme, 

 filaments 3-fid ; lowland meadows and orchards. O. 

 pyrenaicum, L. ; flowers greenish-yellow, smaller, very 

 numerous, in an elongated raceme, filaments entire, 

 dilated; mountain woods, frequent. O. umbellatum, L., 

 Star of Bethlehem; flowers white, 5-20, crowded in a 

 short umbel-like raceme, filaments not 3-cleft; copses 

 and fields, frequent. 



