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ORNITHÓGALUM fimbiiatum.
Fringed 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 E A . Brown prodr. p . 214,
O RN L TH O G A L UM. Supra fol. 42. series 2.
O. fimbriatum, racemo subcorymboso paucifloro, pedunculis fructificantibus
refractis, bracteis elongato-lanceolatis acutis pedunculis parum brevioribus,
perianthii laciniis lanceolatis acutis, filamentis basi dilatatis, foliis
linearibus acutis basi valde attenuatis subtus hirsntis margine fimbriatis,
scapo hirsuto.
Ornithogalum fimbriatum. Willd. nov. act. nat. cur. ber. 3. p. 420. M . B .
flo r. Taur. cauc. X. p. 276. Suppl. p. 266. Schult. syst. veg. 6. p . 53X.
Spreng. syst. 2. p . 30.
Bulb solitary, seldom producing any offsets. Leaves 5,
in our plant, erect when the plant is in flower, afterwards
lengthening out and spreading, linear and acute, hollow on
the upper side, and convex below, the sides nearly closed
in near the base, of a bluish green, and smooth on the upper
side, underneath densely clothed with short rigid hairs, and
fringed round the margins, longitudinally marked with numerous
lines from the base to the point; those in our plant
when in flower six inches and a half in length. Scape erect,
very slightly angular, scarcely half the length of the leaves,
thickly covered with very short hairs, some few of which
extend even to the peduncles and bractes. Raceme somewhat
corymbose, in our plant 8-flowered; the three lower
ones nearly -in a whorl, the others alternate; the partof the
scape between the peduncles angular, smooth, and of a
glossy green. Bractes membranaceous, narrow-lanceolate,
tapering to a long slender point, sheathing the peduncle a
great part of their length. Peduncles spreading, ascending
at the points, a little longer than the bractes, after flowering