49- 



JJI.IACE.E 



rare 



2. 



Scilla ; but the -flowers, which are itt a bracteate, sometimes 

 corymbose, raceme, are white or yellow, but never blue ; the 

 perianth, which consists of 6 free, spreading segments, has a 

 nectariferous gland at the base of each, g,nd is persistent ; and the 

 anthers are versatile. (Name from the Greek ortiilhns, bird's, gala, 



milk.) 



I.* O.ni'ilans (Drooping Star 

 of Bethlehem). — Bulb large; 

 leaves a foot or more in length, 

 glaucous ; flowers few, large, 

 white,^ greenish outside, in a 

 loose, drooping raceme with 

 long, slender bracts ; fllaments 

 fid. ^—Naturalised in fields ; 

 -Fl. April, May. Biennial. 

 0. iimbelldtum (Common 

 Star of Bethlehem). — Bulb 

 smaller ; leaves shorter, green, 

 with a white stripe ; • flowers 

 6 — lo, large, erect, white, with 

 a broad green band externally, 

 in a ^ long-stalked, corymbose 

 raceme. — In the neighbourhood 

 of houses, not indigenous ; fre- 

 quent! — ¥]. April, May. Peren- 

 nial. 



3. p. pyrendicuni (.Spiked 

 Star of liethlehem). — Bulb 

 large ; leaves long, narrow, 

 glaucous, withering very early 

 in the season; flowers numerous, 

 in a long, erect raceme, with a 

 stout, leafless peduncle about 

 2 feet high ; bracts lanceolate- 

 acumirrate ; perianth - leaves 

 green, with white margins in- 

 side. Woods in the south; 

 rare, but very abundant near Bath, ^vhere the )'Oung shoots when in 

 bud are sold as " I'Vench Asparagus." — Fl. June, July. Perennial. 



*i 2. Lft.iUM (Lily). — Herbaceous plants witli fcaly bulbs, cauline 

 leaves, and large flowers with a deciduous perianth of 6 spreadini;, 

 or reflexed, free segments, with a nectary ; aulliers versatile. 

 (Name, the Classical name of some such plants.) 



iiKKITIIOr-.AI.UM PYREN.<!CUM 



{S/>iked Star of Bctli!ch,:in). 



