HEXANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Ornithogalum. 427 
(Hook. FI. Lond. E.)— E. Bot. 21— Wale. — Kniph. 1— -Clus. i. 188. 2 —• 
Hod. 222—Lob. Obs. 72. 3 —Ger. Em. 1 65.2—Pet. 66.12—FI Dan. 378— 
Fuchs. 169— J. B. ii. 622. 1 — Ger. 132. 2— Lonic. 193. 1— H. Ox. iv. 13. 
12— Swert. i. 57. 3—Park. Par. 137. 7. 
Root-leaf generally single, longer than the stem. Stem-leaves sometimes 
three or four, unequal, one much larger than the others. Fruit-stalk 
sometimes solitary. Petals in two series, the inner greenish yellow, the 
outer green. Woodw. Stem from four to six inches high. Leaves 
fringed with fine white hairs. Spokes of the umbel from three to seven, 
each supporting a single flower. Rob. (Bulb small. Stam. and Pist. 
yellow. E.) 
Yellow Bethlehem Star. Moist sandy places, and thickets. Woods 
on the banks of the Tees near Greta Bridge, and Bignal, Yorkshire. Mr. 
Robson. Near Doncaster, and Kendal. Under Malham Cove. Mr. Wood. 
In a meadow adjoining to the copper mills, Derby. Mr. Whately. (Ship- 
meadow, Suffolk. Mr. Ashby. Near Pierce Bridge, Durham. Winch 
Guide. In different woods of Scotland: in Oxfordshire and Berkshire. 
FI. Lond. Auchtertool Linn. Maughan, in Grev. Edin. E.) P. April.* 
O. pyrena'icum. Bunch very long : filaments all dilated: fruit-stalks 
when in flower expanding, equal, but afterwards approaching the 
stalk. 
(E. Bot. 499. E.)— Jacq. Austr. 103— Clus. i. 187. 1 —Dod. 209. 1— Lob. 
Obs. 47. 3— Ger. Em. 97 — Ger. 89— J. B. ii. 627. 1— Park. Par. 137. 5. 
(Bulb egg-shaped, whitish. Leaves all radical, long spreading, strap¬ 
shaped. E.) Stalk one foot and a half to two feet high. Fruit stalks 
slender. Flower-scales membranous at the base, broad, and half em¬ 
bracing the stalk, upwards awl-shaped. Petals narrow, expanding, pale 
yellow within, green without, with whitish margins. Woodw. (Stamens 
half their length wider, awl-shaped at the point. Anthers vane-like. 
Summit bluntly three-sided. FI. Brit. E.) 
Spiked Bethlehem Star. Meadows and pastures. Near Ashley, be¬ 
tween Bath and Bradford ; and near Chichester. Near Queen’s Charlton, 
(and in lanes about Stockwood, Keynsham; E.) Somerset; and be¬ 
tween Bath and Warminster. Rev. G. Swayne. (Keyson Park wood, 
Bedfordshire. Rev. T. O. Marsh. FI. Brit. E.) P. June.t 
O. umbella'tum. Flowers forming a corymbus: outer fruit-stalks taller 
than the central ones: (filaments awl-shaped. E.) 
(Hook. FI. Lond. E.)— Jacq. Austr. 343— E. Bot. 130 — Ger. 132. 1— Dod. 
221. 1— Lob. Obs. 72. 2 — Ger. Em. 165. 1— Swert. i. 57. 4. 
Fruit-stalks very long, broad. Flower-scales large, white, membranous. 
* The bulbous roots of all the species are nutritious and wholesome, (though the water 
in which they have been boiled induces vomiting, a parallel case with the tropical food 
Cassava. E.), and those of this species have been employed for food in a scarcity of pro¬ 
visions. Horses, goats, and sheep eat it. Swine are not fond of it. Cows refuse it. (Sturm 
asserts that the expressed juice of the roots is beneficial to children in convulsions ; and 
that roasted in ashes and mixed with honey, the bulbs are useful in healing sores. Mr. 
Salisbury has detached this plant, together with six exotic species, from the genus Orni - 
thogalum , and constituted a new genus which he has named after Sir Thomas Gage, Bart. 
F. L. S. vid. Monograph in Annals of Botany. E.) 
t (So abundant in Somersetshire as to be tied up in bunches and exposed for sale in 
Bath market, by the name of French Asparagus. Mr. Griffith. E.) 
