Хо. 1183. 
ORNITHOGALUM AUREUM. 
Class. Order. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
This elegant flowering bulbous - rooted 
plant is a native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
It usually blooms in the spring with us. 
The stem is nearly a foot in height, and 
the flowers continue long in beauty; after 
which the whole decays, and the bulb often 
. remains dormant for two seasons, when it 
shoots up with renewed vigour. It must 
be preserved in the greenhouse, and potted 
in sandy loam. It very rarely increases 
itself by any offsets. 
