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O R N ITH O G A L UM montanum.
Mountain Star o f 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 EÆ . Brownprodr. p .2 1 4 .
o T n Lt X a L UM . Perianthium 6-partitum, erectum, supra medinise.
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pLeidsu,n culis fructificautibus refractis, capsuhs S ™ L ' p ì i c “®“ ‘ latis ffoolliiiiss eelloonnggaattoo--liaauncceeooliaatiirbs coaaunaaiih«.c«u*!l*a*r-*is-» b—ufo^^^^ .
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t. 33. Synops. nov. plant, flo r. neap. p . 41. Schult. syst. veg. v . t . p
Bulb large, simple, not producing numerous offsets like
O.umbellatum. Leaves several, spreading
form lanceolately linear, tapering to a long slender point,
acute green on both sides, channelled on the upper side,
and keeled underneath. Scape very short, scarcely any at
first but lengthening as the flowers expand, slightly anpilar,
flexuose between the peduncles, smooth and glossy. Fiower^
corymbose, numerous^ at length becoming racemose. Pe-
dulcles long and spreading, the lower ones longest, erect or
s S tiy s p f e a d in g when in flower, afterwards bent downwards
smooth and glossy, twice the length of the scape.
Bractes lanceolate, taper-pointed, striate, membranaceous»
scarcely more than half the length of ffie peduncles, which
they clasp nearly all their length. Perianthium
neailv to the base, spreading from about the middle, the
base Lnnivent, three outer lacinim broadest ovately oblong,
S e , white inside but green at the back edged with wffite i
3 inner ones narrower and less green at the back, when overblown
the lacinia; become linear and lengthen " S S
persistent. Stamens 6, inserted m the receptacle ^
nearly equal in length, smooth, all dilated
tapering to a point, attached to the back of the anthers.
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