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O R N I T H O G A L U M FLAVI S SI
Yellow-ßowered Sfar of Bethlehem.
C L A S S VL ORDER L
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Six Chives. One Pointal.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
CORÓLLA ß-petala^ persistens. Filamenta basi
dilatata. Capsula 3-locularis, Semina subrotundaj
nuda.
BLOSSOM 6-petalled, remaining. Threads widened
at tlie base.- Capsule 3-ceIled. Seeds
roundish^ naked.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
O R N I T H O G A L U M racemo longo : floribus ma»--
nis, flavissimis : bracteis membranaceis^
ovato-acutis : foliis lanceolatiSj reflexis.
Ornithogalum flavissimura. Jacq, Icones, 2,
tal. 436.
STAK OT BETHLEHEM wiüi a long spike: the
flowers are large, and very yellow: the
flower-prop is skinny, and pointedly egg.
shaped: leaves lance-shaped, and reflexed.
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. A bract or flower-prop.
2. Seed-bud, chives, and pointal.
3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.
4. A transverse section of the seed-bad magnified.
T H I S yellow Ornithogalum was communicated to the author by the Hon. W . Irby, last summer
from his collection at Farnham Royal, where it was raised, we understand, from the seed of the O. aureum.
The only figure of it extant is in the Icones of Jacquin. The continuance and abundance of
its fine bloom may justly rank it amongst the most attractive of the genus.
E»RATUM.-ln our last Number, PI. Dl, in the generic character of Hellenia describing the capsule, instead of
irivalvis, scpto duplici inclusa, read e-valvis, trilocularis—valveless, three-celled.
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