PL end. ph. 15. ASPHODELE^. 117. Ornithog. 179 



VI. 117. ORNITHOGALUM. Star of Bethltm. 



Perigonium 6-sepaled, connivent at bottom, spreading at 

 top, persisting; stameiis 6, equal ; filaments inserted on the 

 base of the sepales ; those inserted on the 3 outer dilated 

 at bottom, the others threadshape, smooth ; stigma bkmtly 

 3-sided ; capsule 3-sided, blunt ; seeds many, roundish ; 

 umhiUciis tubercular; corcidum central, curved, lialfas long 

 as the perisperm ; spermodermis simple. — Bulb tunicated ; 

 leaves radical, linear, keeled ; scape erect ; flowers alternate, 

 peduncled, whitish streaked with green, corymbose ; braciece 

 membranaceous, from the base of each peduncle. 



1. Ornithogalum pallidum. Pale star~of-Bethlem. 

 Raceme very long; Ivbes of the perigonium linear, 



obtuse; Iractecc membranaceous, dilated at the base, very 

 acute ; peduncles when in flower expanding, when in fruit 

 approaching the scape. 



Ornithogalum angustifolium majus, floiibus ex albo virescentibus, Raii 

 Syn. 312, I. 



Aspbodelus bulbosus, Ger. em. 97. 



Asphodelus bulbosus Galeni, sen Ornithogalum majus, flore subvi- 

 rescente, Park. Farad. 136. 



Ornithogalum pyreniacum, Lin. S. P. 440. 



Ornithogalum flavescens, ianiarcfc Fl. Fr.3,2TJ. 



Ornithogalum pallidum, Salisb. Prod. 239. 



Woods and fields ; perennial ; June and July; 



Bidb ovate ; leaves very long, not in the least notched^ 

 smooth; scape 3 feet high, upright, inanj--Rowered; flowers 

 whitish green, pale yellow within ; peduncles slender. 



2. CM-nilhogalum umlellatiim. Umbelled star-of-BetJdem. 

 Raceme inclining to corymbose, few-flowered ; oiiler 



peduncles longer than the central ones ; lobes of the peri- 

 gdnium elliptical, lanceolate; bracfecE long, membranaceousj 

 acute. 



Ornithogalum vulgare etverus, majus et minus, Raii %«. 372^2. 



Ornithogalum, Ger. ent. 167. 



Ornithogalum vulgare, Park. Farad. 136. 



Ornithogalum umbellatum, Lin. S. P. 441. 



Ornithogalum Theliocharmos, Renealm, 88. 



Ornithogalum horologicum, Sio/ces Bot. Mat. Med. 1,242; 



Fields, pastures, and woods ; perennial ; April, May* 

 Btdbs roundish ; leaves linear, shrivelled at the tip ; scape 

 18 in. high ; flowers spreading, white. 



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