oe a eg ee ee. 
Jeaves, with fix'white threds about it, tipt with yellow pénderits : the 
root is great and whire, with a lat bottom, the fibres being gone, 
Whichit yearly lofeth: this is very impatient of froft, and will not 
abide with us, unlefs it be carefully preferved and defended in Winter, 
: Ornithogalum maximum album. 
| He pd white Star of Bethichem hath thay fair broad long 
_™ treth green leaves, which {pring early out of the ground,. and 
contintie from the beginning ot February to the end of May,.at which 
time they begin to fade, and the ftalk with the head of flowers be- 
ginneth to rife, and before they are blown the leaves will be all gone : 
_ _the ftalk when in flower, is a yard high, green, fmoothand round, 
bearing at the topa great buth ,or {pike ag flowers, upon long foort- 
ftalks, which grow fhorter and fhorter to the top of the ftalk : the 
flowers open by degrees, firft below and fo upwards, confifting of 
fix white leaves, {pread open like a, Star, with a white umbone ih the 
middle,befet with many threds tipt with yellow; the root is great,and 
-hath a flat bottom like the former, but more hardy to endure, and 
apter to increafe, whereby it is now grown common, 
Ornithogalum Neapolitanum. 
“He Star-flomer of Naples rifeth out of the ground early, with 
four or five long hollow pointed whitifh green leaves, ftanding 
round together; the ftalk rifech two foot high, bearing many flowers, 
- each containing fix long narrow leaves, of a fhining white colour on 
the infide, and of a whitith green on the outfide, turning back toward 
the ftalks, wich fix other {mall leavesin the middle, ftariding round 
together like a cup; with a white pointell,and fix threds tipt with yel- 
- Jow: the root is white, and incréafeth too much, and. therefore re- 
quireth to be yearly taken up and freed from off-fets, wherewith ic 
is apt to be peftered. “28 
Ornithogalum Luteum. 
i Ge yellow Star of Bethlehem cometh up at the firft with one long 
round greenith leaf, which opening a little above the ground, 
yieldeth another {mall leaf thorter than the firft, from whence rifeth 
2 ftalk four or five inches high, bearing at the top four or five fmall 
green leaves, and among them the like number of fimall yellow ftar- 
like flowers, witha fmall greenith line down the backs of the leaves, 
‘and {ome {mall reddith threds in the middle ; the root is {mall,round, 
white and cleer, and although it yearly lofeth the fibres, it will not 
endure to be kept but very little time out of he ground, 
Ornithogalum A2thiopicum, 
H | Stareflomer of Exhiopia hath green leaves 4 foot long, atid att 
| “Aine ey a ren broken, a aftalk acubit high, beastly 
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