ORNITHOGALUM. 
bearing the anthers; in others the alternate filaments are she ee with green, three of whofe famens are dilated 
fim the 
mple. 
Eff. Ch. Corolla of fix petals, ere€t, permanent, their 
upper part Debris Filaments dilated at the wae oe 
tion of a 4 stabi aac only 
tributed into two fe@tions ; uch as ‘a all oa Garments 
awi-fhaped ; fecondly, fach ¢ as have the alternate ftamens 
emarginate. But this sea is abolifhed in se se now 
who gives 43 {pecies, and in the 2d edition of Hortus Kew- 
enfis, whe are mentioned. We fhall fele& feveral for 
the fake of pea = of which, arvenfe and nanum, 
are not in Willdenow. 
; One-flowered Star of Bethlehem. Linn. 
nt. 62. Laxm. in Nov. Comm. Petrop. v. 18. 5 
two apenas leaves, 
K : 
greatly refembles 0. /uteum in eae but the flower is fo- 
with bro iain Rages ed 
ne a 
conn ceolate tes nearly 
nig aaa aed of oa meas oe in 
Ut. fafc. 21. Willd. = ’ 
(O. min 
in Utt. Annal. fac. 11.8. ter. £2. Sm. Fl. Gree. t. 3325 
pe a ie (O. anguftifolium Calne: Tourn. Inft. 
379. )—-Corymb compound, many-flowered, downy Bra 
teas pace fringed. 
Levant.—-Much larger than the laft, with the numerous 
flowerfialks, and under fide of the petals, downy. There 
are many {mall sabia bradeas. 
. luteum. Common Yellow Star of Bethlehem. Linn. 
Sp. Pl. 439. Engl. ‘Bot. t. 21. an. t. 378.—Stalk 
angular, with a linear leaf at its bafe. Flower-italks umbel- 
late, {mooth, undivided. Petals lanceolate. —Occafionally 
found early in the f{pring, about woods and paftures in 
Oxfordfhire, York fhire, and fome other parts of ee 
e fem, or rather ftalk, 
Leaves keeled, ie aes 
BraGeas two, unequal, 
el fagoth; of feveral flowers, co- 
O. nanum. Dwa : oregoing Star of foscgpiies Sm. Prodr. 
Fl. Grec. Sibth. v. 1. 230. a i ama 
(O. a loribus imbellatis “Albis ; ; Buxb. Cent. 
35. t. 37. f. 1.)—Corymb fimple, fmooth, longer than a 
ftalk, of few flowers. Braéteas inflated, membranous. 
Leaves linear, numerous.—Gathered by Dr. J. Sibthorp 
in Arcadia, as well as near Abydos, flowering in March. 
The dul is as big as a hazel-nut. Leaves fix or more, 
widely {preading, fix inches long, narrow, rather glaucous. 
Stalk very fhort, bearing two or three large, ereét, white 
Vv. 
‘O. celia. Common Star es bee Linn. Sp. 
Pl. 441. Engl. ae t. 130. es t. 343. Re- 
ae eem to be rare Sais ut the eons It is un- 
ueftionably the ogvloyadrov of Sage and we have 
already explaine a name. it t is frequent in 
ftarry ifn green at the 
The roots are ea boiled, chiefly by poor people, in the 
. 
O. pyrenaicum. leap Star of Bethlehem. Linn. Sp. 
ae A40 oie a t.499. Jacq. Auftr. t. 10 
m “See all of equal le 
O. nutans. Drooping Star of Bethlehem. Linn. Sp. 
Pl. 441. Engl. Bot.t. 1997. Curt. Mag. t. 2 9. 
Auftr. t. gor. FI.D 12. 
Flowers pendulous toward one fide. Filaments “dilated, 
; three of them longer and cloven.— 
3 but 
ageum. 
Willd. n. 14. Jacq. Ic. Rar. t urt. Mag. t. 11 
—Clufter long, denfe. Filaments awl-fhaped, the alternate 
ones flightly dilated. Braéteas membranous, ovate. Leaves 
lanceolate, acute, fringed.—Native of the Cape of Good 
Hope, requiring with us the fhelter of a frame. It blooms 
in fummer, and is confpicuous for its numerous, crowded, 
large flowers, whofe ovate petals are white on both fides, 
though greenifh at the bafe. The /eaves are: ‘about a foot 
long and an inch broa 
O. arabicum. Great-flowered Star of Bethlehem. Linn. 
Sp. Pl. Pala at Linn. Curt. Mag. t. 728. Redout. 
Liliac mb ie ae wered. Filaments awl-fhaped. 
rarely, in the frame in March and yee . The kaves are 
numerous, {preading, green. Stalk above a foot-high, bear- 
ing an hemifpherical corymb of many very large, fragrant, 
white flowers, furnifhed es a dark-green germen. 
ORNITHOGALUM, in Gardening, contains plants of the 
bulbous-rooted, flowery, Tieton ghearee, kinds, of 
which the fpecies cultivated are: the umbelled ftar of 
Bethlehem (O. =e . the yellow ree of Bethlehem 
. luteum) 5 
