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©niitljogalum umbdlatum. Natural Order: Lilidccce—Lily Family. 
1 NTIONED by Pliny, author of a Natural History, who 
flourished a. d. 77, the Ornithogalum has given rise to 
much comment as to the origin of its name. It is 
derived from two Greek words, ornithos , a bird, and g-ala, 
milk — a most singular combination, surely; and we cannot 
''-Hf help suggesting the following theory: The Greeks had a 
k pretty and poetic conceit, that in spring a certain wind blew, and 
K with it brought the birds of passage to gladden their bowers with 
song, and this wind they named ornithias , or bird-wind. Now the 
K Star of Bethlehem blooms in April and May, about the time of the 
\ birds’ return, thus poetically is seen a flower greeting the birds; a 
I flower, too, which is of an opaque white, or milk color. The 
^ English name is from the shape of the blossom. The bulbs fre- 
m quently attain a great size. 
AT OR did he doubt her more, 
' But rested in her fealty, till he crowned 
A happy life with a fair death. —Tennyson. 
WHOM ^ au< ^ should I meet — I I/'ELL do vanish’d frowns enhance 
And she touched my hand with a smile so sweet * ' The charms of every brighten’d glance, 
She made me divine amends And dearer seems each dawning smile 
for a courtesy not return’d. —Tennyson. For having lost its light awhile. —Moore. 
WOULD have my love 
Angry sometimes, to sweeten off the rest 
Of her behavior. _ Ben j onson . 
AND didst thou weep, 
And / did not console? 
Look up, and be no longer sad! ” 
She called me by my name: 
Our spirits rushed together, glad 
And swift as flame to flame. 
— Dora Greenvjell. 
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