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fpike; and they are large and white, with a 
ftreak of green on the back of each petal. 
We have it on damp places in hilly grounds, 
but not common. It flowers in April. | 
C, Bauhine calls it Oruithogalum umbellatuin 
medium, 
3: Yellow Stat of Bethlehem: 
~ Ornithogalum luteum. 
The root is round and fmall. 
D1IV,LS LOW alt: 
Tall, fpiked Star of Bethlehem: 
Ornithogalum majus fpicatum, 
The root is large, round, and white. 
The leaves are long, and have fome breadth ; 
but they are of the graffy form. 
The ftalk is upright, round, and a yard high. 
‘The flowers are of a de‘icate white; and they 
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The leaves are of a pale green, long, narrow, 
and graffy. 
The ftalk is about four inches high, round, 
and alfo of a pale green. 
The flowers are of a beautiful yellow. 
We have it wild in the northern counties. Ié 
flowers in April. 
C. Bauhine calls it Ornithogalum luteum. Others.. 
Cepeé agraria. 
FOREIGN SRE CITE s: 
ftand in a fine, 
ftalk, 
It is a native of Spain, and flowers in Au- 
guft. 
C. Bauhine calls it Ornithagalim Spicatum majuss 
long fpike at the top of the 
The virtues of thefe plants are unknown; But 
their beauty has given them a place in gardens. 
IV. 
HY A.CLiN TH, 
HeLa? ENED eH Ne 
gpa flower is forthed of a fingle petal, tubular at the bafe, 
edge ; and there is within, a nectarium, 
the rudiment of the fruit. 
places. 
and divided into fix fegments at the 
formed of three diftinguithable openings on the top of 
There is no cup, The feed-veffel is toundifh, but marked in three 
Linnaeus places this arnong the hexaidria monogynia. 
Dive I St OfN. Tf. 
x. Simall Vernal Star-Hyacinth. 
Fyacinthus ftellaris minor. 
‘The root is round and finall. 
The leaves are long, graffy, and of a pale 
green. There generally rife only two or three 
with the ftalk. 
The ftalk is round, flender, and fix inches 
high. 
The flowers ftand in a fhort fpike; and are 
deeply divided, and of a fine blue. 
We have it in our northern counties. It fowers 
in April. 
C. Bauhine calls it Hyacinthus ftellaris trifolins 
Germanicus. Others, Hyacinthus ftellaris vernus. 
2. Common Blue Hyacinth. 
Flyacinthus caruleus vulgaris. 
The root is round white. 
The leaves are long; grafly, and of a pale 
green. 
The flowers grow on the top of a thick, round, 
juicy ftalk, which is a foot high, and bends at 
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BRITISH SPECIES, 
the fummit: they are long, tubular, and of a 
deep blue. 
It is common under hedges, and flowers in 
April. 
C. Bauhine calls it Hyacinthus ceruleo Slore ob- 
longo major. Others, Hyacinthus vulgaris, and 
Hyacinthus Anglicus. 
3- Leffer Autumnal Star-Hyacinth. 
Hyacinthus fiellatis autumualis minor. 
The root is fmall and round. 
The leaves are numerous, long, narrow, and 
of a faint green, 
The ftalk is flender, of a pale green, and fix 
inches high. 
The flowers ftand in a fpike at the top ; and are 
{mall, deeply divided into pointed fegments, and 
of a fine fky-blue. 
We have it on heaths, but not common. It 
flowers in Auguft. 
~ C. Bauhine calls it Ayacinthus ftellaris autumna. 
lis minor ; a name others have copied. 
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