Pl.end.ph. 15- ASPHQDELEiE. 117. Ornithog. 179 
VI. 117. ORNITHOGALUM. Star of Bethlem. 
Perigonium 6-sepaled, connivent at bottom, spreading at 
top, persisting ; stamens 6, equal ; filaments inserted on the 
base of the sepales ; those inserted on the 3 outer dilated 
at bottom, the others threadshape, smooth ; stigma bluntly 
3-sided ; capsule 3-sided, blunt ; seeds many, roundish ; 
umbilicus tubercular ; corculmh central curved, half as long 
as the perisperm ; spermodermis simple. — Bulb tunicated ; 
leaves radical, linear, keeled ; scape erect ; flowers alternate, 
peduncled, whitish streaked with green, corymbose ; bractece 
membranaceous, from the base of each peduncle. 
1. Ornithogalum pallidum. Pale star- of -Bethlem. 
Raceme Very long; lobes of the perigonium linear, 
obtuse; bractece membranaceous, dilated at the base, very 
acute ; peduncles when in flower expanding, when in fruit 
approaching the scape. 
Ornithogalum angustifolium majus, floribus ex albo virescentibus, Rati 
Syn. 372, 1. 
Aspbodelu- bulbosus, Ger. em. 97. 
Asphodelus bulbosus Galeni, sen Ornithogalum majus, flore subvi- 
rescente, Park. Par ad. 136. 
Ornithogalum pyreniacum, Lin. S . P. 440. 
Ornithogalum flavescens, Lamarck FI. Fr. 3,277. 
Ornithogalum pallidum, Salisb. Prod. 239. 
Woods and fields ; perennial; June and July. 
Bulb ovate ; leaves very long, not in the least notched, 
smooth; scape 3 feet high, upright, many-flowered ; flowers 
whitish green, pale yellow within ; peduncles slender. 
2. Ornithogalum umbellatum. Umbel-led star-of -Bethlem. 
Raceme inclining to corymbose, few-flowered ; outer 
peduncles lonyer than the central ones ; lobes of the peri- 
gonium elliptical, lanceolate; bractecR long, membranaceous, 
acute. 
Ornithogalum vulgare et verus, majus et minus, Rail Syn. 372, 2. 
Ornithogalum, Ger. em. 167. 
Ornithogalum vulgare, Park. Parad. 136. 
Ornithogalum umbellatum, Lin. S. P. 441. 
Ornithogalum Theliocharmos, Renealm t 88. 
Ornithogalum horologicum, Stokes Bot. Mat. Med. 1,242. 
Fields, pastures, and woods; perennial; April, May. 
Bulbs roundish ; leaves linear, shrivelled at the tip ; scape 
IS in. high ; flowers spreading, white. 
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