'' OrnitJiogalumJ] xciv. liliace^." 453- 



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***** Leaves hroad, flat, all radical. Stamens all simple. 



8. A. ursinum L. {hroad-leaved G. or Ramsons) ; umbel 

 nearly plane, leaves ovate-lanceolate on footstalks, scape trian- 

 gular. E. B. t. 122. . ^ 



Moist woods and hedge-banlcs, frequent. %. 4_^, Flowers 



I white. Umbels without bulbs, level-topped. Spatha of 2 ovate-lan- 

 ceolate leaves, 



{Allium amhiguum Sm. in Fl. Grwca, "almost exclusively confined 

 to the south of Europe, and an old inhabitant of our gardens/' we 

 regret to see introduced into the Supplement to English ^Botany\\,^h 



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2803) solely on the ground of its having been found, in a verv 

 suspicious locality, a little above Rochester.) 



9. Scixi^A Linn. Squill. 



etfe J^^rianth of 6 sepals, spreading and deciduous. Filaments 

 cb! filiform, glabrous, inserted on the base of the perianth — 



Flowers hlue or purple, racemose or corymbose, on a leafless 

 scape, without a spatha. Bracteas membranaceous or obsolete 

 Named from gkvWw^ to injure : in Arabic also dsgijL 



l.^S, ^mza Huds. {vernal S.) ; bulb coated, raceme in a 

 hemispherical few-flowered corymb, bracteas lanceolate obtuse 

 as long or longer than the pedicels, leaves linear channelled 

 ii. Jj. t. 23. 



Common on the western and northern coasts of Great Britain frc- 

 fl"^- ^L^'^^y ^""1 ^^*^^'^"''- ^^'^^^"d. n . 4, 5. —Plant 4— 5 



•J inches high. Leaves few, nearly as long as the 'scape.' F/owers frat 

 W| grant, deep blue. Filaments dUated downwards. ^'^^^'•^t'a- 



?t 2. S. *bif6lia 



c„i.„ I "^ 1 — V-- "- --"-^ou, Kj.j , UU.LU uuaieu, raceme lax 

 gb^rymbose, bracteas obsolete, leaves lanceolate mostly 2. 



J r.n^- ''^fy/"^'""" native. It exists in Buddie's Herharium, and was 

 ?J».i ^^'^^^v^d from the west of England by Mr. S.ms of Norwich. ^ 



If I 3, 4. — Flowers pale blue. 



,eJ» <J- t>. autumndlis L. {autumnal 



rinnlV^T/'"'^''''' ^rf '^' "°""' pedicels and stamens about 

 as long as the perianth, leaves linear several. E. B. t. 78. 



Dry pastures and rocks. Cornwall; near Bristol; Moulsev Hurst • 

 Blackheath and Richmond, abundant; Flagpost-hill, Torquay St' 

 Helen^, Isle o Wight, plentiful. Jersey.'\. 7-9. T?wi 

 pmkish-purple, xn perfection before the leaves appear. 



10. Ornithogalum Linn. Star of Bethlehem. 



J,7lT^^^'-^^'''^'f^ '"P^^^' persistent. Stam. hypogynous, 

 ^urcely adhering to the perianth, alternately large/ir dilated 



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