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at the base. Capsules with 3 angles and 3 furrows.— Flowers 

 white, racemose or corymbose, on a leafless scape. Bracteas 

 memh^anaceous.—^^rnQd from opviq^ ooviOoq, a bird, and yaXa 

 milk. Linna3us imagines that the roots of O, tmibellatim are 

 the '^Doxies Bung^^ which was sold so dear at the sieo-e of 

 Samaria, as mentioned in the 2nd book of Kings : they are still 

 much used for food in the Levant. "^ - ~ 



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6,7. 



ments dilated below with a long point, peduncles equal spread- 

 ing erect in fruit. E. B. t. 499. 



Rare. Pastures In Somersetshire, Sussex, and Bedfordshire, v, 

 Bidb ovate. Leaves long, linear, acuminate, channelled. Scape 

 l^ — 2 ft. long. Raceme elongated. Flowers much smaller than in 

 the two following species, greenish-white, 



2. O. ^ iimbelldtum L. (common S.) ; racemes corymbose, pe- 

 duncles longer than the bracteas, filaments lanceolate subulate 

 simple- JE. B. t. 130. 



Meadows and pastures in various parts of England. Near Glasgow; 

 Kinross-shire; banks of the Jed, near the old castle of Fernihurst, 



Stem 8 



Jedburgh. 



2^. 5^6. — Stem H — 10 inches high. Leaves linear, 

 acuminate, grooved. Flowers large, few, 6 — 9 ; lower pedicles very 

 long, so that their flowers reach to the same height with the upper 

 ones, thus forming a corymh, each having a membranous lanceolate 

 bractea. Segments of the perianth green, with a white margin and 

 white within. 



3. 0. * nutans L. (drooping S.) ; flowers pendulous unilateral, 

 filaments broad membranous trifid middle point very short 

 bearing the anther between the two longer lateral ones. E. B, 

 t. 1997. 



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Fields and orchards, Bedfordshire, Suffolk, Derby, and Notting- 

 liam. 7/.. 4j 5. — Flowers in a true, but lax, raceme^ larger than 

 the last, and having the Jllaments of their stamens of a very different 

 structure. 



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Fruit dry^ capsular. Root bulbous. Stem more or less 

 leafy. Peduncles (or j^edicels) without membranaceous 

 bracteas at the base, springing from the axils of true 

 leaves, not jointed with the flower. Sepals distinct. Ovules 

 many in each cell. Tulipea3. (Gen. 11 — 14.) 



11. Gagea Salisb. 



Gaijea. 



Perianth of 6 persistent pieces, connivent below, spreading 

 above, without a nectariferous fold or depression at the base. 

 Filaments not dilated at the base. Anthers erect. Style erect, 

 trigonal, fistulose. Capsule triangular. Seeds subglobose.— 

 Flowers corymbose or umbellate^ yelloiv^ with foliaceous bracteas. 



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