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oil pretty-long peduncles, and fpreading wide from the 
principal ftalk. The flowers have an agreeable fcent, and 
appear in May; when the feed-velTels are formed, the 
fruit-ftalks become ere£b, and approach to the ftalk. The 
feeds ripen in Auguft. Native of fome parts of Europe, 
in paftures ; as, between Bath and Bradford, near Little 
Afnley ; between Bath and Warrninfter, three miles from 
Briftol, in the way to Bath, and near Queen Chariton, in 
Somerfetfnire; half a mile from Chichefter-fouthgate, in 
a meadow. 
8. Ornithogalum ftachyodes,orclofe-fpiked ftarofBeth- 
lehem : raceme very long; petals lanceolate-oblong; fila¬ 
ments broad-lanceolate; alternate ones fhorter by half. 
Height almoft three feet. Flowers from fifty to fixty. It 
is eafily known from O. Narbonenfe, to which it is nearly 
allied, by the leaves being fcarcely a palm in length, and 
very narrow, whereas in the other they are a foot and a 
half long, and an inch wide. According to Scopoli, the 
principal difference confifts in the flowering peduncles of 
this fpreading very much, but the fruiting peduncles 
ereft and preffed or parallel to the fcape. Belldes, the 
root is eafily pulled up; the leaves three or four, chan¬ 
nelled, turning yellow and withering whilft the plant is 
flowering. Native of the fouth of Europe; and it flowers 
in April. 
9. Ornithogalum Narbonenfe, or Narbonne fiar of Beth¬ 
lehem : raceme oblong; filaments lanceolate, membrana¬ 
ceous ; peduncles and flowers fpreading. Smaller than 
the preceding, with longer wider leaves: Gerard and 
others regard it as a variety. Native of the fouth of 
France, Spain, Italy, Germany, and Siberia. 
10. Ornithogalum latifolium, or broad-leaved ftar of 
Bethlehem : raceme very long ; leaves lanceolate-enfiform. 
Bulb large. Root-leaves feveral, broad, fwofd-fhaped, 
fpreading on the ground. Stalk thick, ftrong, between 
two and three feet high, bearing a long fpike of large 
white flowers, upon long pedicels. The leaves are a foot 
long, and more than two inches in breadth. Ray, who 
cultivated it in his little garden at Cambridge, remarks, 
that in the flowers which opened firlt the tips of the petals 
were green ; whereas Clufius fays,, they are all of a fnowy 
“«'hitenefs, without any green nerve; that the pedicels are 
two inches long ; and that the leaves begin to wither be¬ 
fore the flowers open, nay, are quite dried up if the plant 
be late in flowering. Clufius counted above a hundred 
flowers on a fpike. Native of Egypt and Arabia; culti¬ 
vated here in 1629, as appears from Parkinfon : flowers 
in June. 
11. Ornithogalum longibraffeatum, or long-armed ftar 
of Bethlehem : raceme very long; braftes almoft double 
the length of the peduncles; leaves lanceolate-enfiform. 
This fpecies was received by Jacquin from the Cape of 
Good Hope, and is figured in the third volume of his 
Hortus Vindobonenfis. The bulb is ovate, whitifh, with 
clofely-compadfed fcales, and of the fize of an egg. 
Leaves about a foot and a half long, and an inch and a 
half broad, gloffy, acute, of a bright-green, fomewhat 
erefif, thickifh, feveral in number. Stem ere (ft, cylindric, 
of the thicknefs of a finger, and two feet high, termi¬ 
nating in a conic thick fpike, which is gradually dif- 
played,and at length changes into a lax cylindric raceme 
of almoft a foot long. Flowers white, inodorous, with 
obtufifli petals, each ftreaked behind with a green ftripe 
or line ; antherte oblong, yellow, incumbent; piftil green. 
12. Ornithogalum comofum,or hairy ftarofBethlehem : 
raceme very fhort; bracftes lanceolate, the length of the 
flowers ; petals blunt. Befler defcribes this fpecies as 
having a root confiding of two connate bulbs, with their 
fibres ; leaves narrow, thick, porraceous, reflex. Stems 
afiurgent, clothed on the upper part with numerous milk- 
white flowers, of a medicated odour; ftamens purple, 
with yellow antherte. See Befl. Hort. Eyft. Ord. 5. 
13. Ornithogalum pyramidaie, or pyramidal ftar of 
Bethlehem : raceme conical; flowers numerous, amend¬ 
ing ; petals elliptic-oblong, flat; ftamens lanceolate, 
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equal; ftyle very fhort. This has a very large oval bulb, 
from which arife feveral long keeled leaves, of a dark- 
green colour; in the middle of thele fprings up a naked 
(talk near three feet high, terminated by a long conical 
fpike of white flowers, on pretty long pedicels. It grows 
naturally upon the hills iri Spain and Portugal; but has 
been long cultivated in the Englifh.gardens it flowers in 
June, and the feeds ripen in Auguft. 
14. Ornithogalum unifolium, or one-leafed ftar of 
Bethlehem : leaf radical, folitary, flefliy, oblong, ciliate ; 
fcape naked ; raceme lhort. Buib ovate, the flze of a 
hazel-nut. Thunberg fent the bulbs from the Cape of 
Good Hope ; and it flowered in the garden at Lund in 1776 
II. With the alternate ftamens emarginate. 
15. Ornithogalum Arabicum, or great-flowered ftar of 
Bethlehem : corymb many-flowered; filaments awl-fhaped; 
corolla broad, beil-fhaped; outer petals obfoletely three¬ 
toothed. Bulb large ; many long keeled leaves arife from 
it, which embrace each other at the bafe ; they are of a 
deep-green, and ftand eredl. Stem eighteen inches high ; 
lmooth, naked, flender. Flowers the fize of thole of 
Narciflus, on long pedicels; petals white, fmelling like 
coriander-feed. Native of Arabia, according to Miller ; 
of Alexandria and the Cape of Good Hope, according to 
Linnaeus. Clufius fays that, in his time, it w'as fent 
every year to Vienna from Conftantinople. In the Kew 
Catalogue it is let down as a native of Egypt and Madeira ; 
Parkinfon fays, it was often fent him out of Turkey, and 
likewife out of Italy ; and that he had two roots fent him 
out of Spain by Guillaume Boel, which, as he faid, he 
gathered there. It flowers here in March and April. 
Miller fays, that he had never feen the flowers, though he 
tried many ways to procure them ; that the bulbs are fre¬ 
quently brought over from Italy forfale, but that he had 
not heard of any having flowered. Clufius lays, that the 
bulbs did not flower at Vienna urdefs they came frefh 
from Conftantinople. Parkinfon calls it “ the great ftarre- 
flower of Arabia;” and Ray, “ great Arabian ftar-flower.” 
16. Ornithogalum thyrfoides, or fpear-leaved ftar of 
Bethlehem: corymbs many-flowered, raceme-formed ; al¬ 
ternate filaments forked; leaves lanceolate. Of this there 
are two varieties. 
a. O. duhium; with yellow flowers, and braiftes fhorter 
than the peduncles. This is fomewhat thinner or nar¬ 
rower in all its parts than, 
( 3 . O. thryfoides ; with white flowers, and braftes the 
length of the peduncles. The whole plant is fmooth. 
Leaves feveral, weak, long-lanceolate, fharp, and thickifh. 
Stem a foot high, of the thicknefs of a goofe-quill, and 
glaucous. Flowers fnow-white, with a fpot of brownifh- 
yellowat the bafe of each petal: they are (lightly odorous. 
Received by Jacquin from the Cape of Good Hope. 
17. Ornithogalum caudatum, or long-fpiked ftar of 
Bethlehem : raceme very long; leaves lanceolate-linear, 
corollas fpreading ; ftamens widened ; the alternate ones 
wedge-form. The whole plant is fmooth, like the pre¬ 
ceding. Leaves a foot and a half long, and an inch and a 
half wide. Scape round, three feet high. Native of the 
Cape of Good Hope; found there by Mr. Fr. Mailon j 
introduced in 1774: flowers from February to Auguft. 
18. Ornithogalum nutans, or Neapolitan ftarofBeth¬ 
lehem: flowers directed one way, pendulous; neftary 
ftamineous, bell-fliaped. This has a pretty-large com- 
prefled bulbous root, from which come out very long 
narrow keeled leaves, of a dark-green colour. The (talks 
are about a foot high, fuftaining ten or twelve flowers in 
a loofe,fpike, each hanging on a footftalk an inch long : 
petals white within, but of a greyifli-green on their out- 
fid e; within the petals is fituated the bell-fhaped necta- 
rium, compofed of fix leaves, out of which arife the fix 
ftamens, terminated by yellow antheras. As the capfules 
grow large, they are fo heavy as to weigh the ftalk to the 
ground: they are ovate, three-cornered, * and black. 
Seeds globular, the fize of radiih-feed, without any tu¬ 
bercle 
