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O R N ITH O G A L UM refractum.
Reßexed Star of Bethlehem.
Linnean Class and Order. H E X A N D R IA M O N O G Y N IA .
Natural Order. A S P H O D E L E iE . Brown prodr. p . 274.
O R N L TH O G A L UM . Supra folio 42. series2.
O. refractum, bulbo prolifero, floribus corymboso-racemosis, pedunculis
fructiferis refractis bracteas lanceolatas vix superantibus, foliis linearibus
acutis canaliculatis albido-lineatis subtus sulcatis, perianthii laci-
niis oblongis acutiusculis, capsulis 6-angulatis.
Ornithogalum refractum. K ita ib e l. Willd. enum. su p p l.17. Link enum. 1.
p . 326. Schult. o e str.fi. 1. p . 559. Reichenb. ic. p l. rar. 1 .142. Schult.
syst. V. 7. p . 533.
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Bulbs ovate, solid, white, producing numerous young ones
under the outer shell. Leaves radical, from%o 10, erector
spreading a little, becoming weak and flaccid as they begin
to decay, linear, acute, channelled on the upper side, and all
marked with a longitudinal white line down the centre, the
points beginning to turn brown, before the flowers are all expanded
; back of a dark glossy green, at first somewhat glaucous,
longitudinally furrowed with numerous furrows. Scape
erect, smooth, producing a many-flowered corymb, which
lengthens out to a raceme. Peduncles rather short, swollen
a little at the base, spreading when in flower, afterwards
becoming refracted, at length hanging straight down, close
to the scape, the capsule somewhat ascending. Bractes narrowly
lanceolate, taper-pointed, membranaceous, nearly as
long as the peduncles, which they sheath at the base. Flowers
somewhat fragrant, white on the upper side, the lower side
green, edged with white. Ferianthium deeply 6-cleft ; the 3
outer segments rather broadest ; all oblong, and but scarcely
acute : the inner ones narrowing to the base. Stamens 6,
inserted in the receptacle. Filaments nearly equal in length,
much flattened and dilated towards the base, tapering to a
slender point, which is attached to the back of the anthers :
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