Manual of British botany, containing the flowering plants and ferns / arranged according to the natural orders by Charles Cardale Babington.

Babington, Charles C. (Charles Cardale), 1808-1895.

Date:: 1881

Credit: Manual of British botany, containing the flowering plants and ferns / arranged according to the natural orders by Charles Cardale Babington. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$LLOYDIA. GAQEA. 363 4. Lloyd'ia Salish. 1. L. serot'ina (R.); root-l. semicylindrical, st. 1. dilated below and sheathiug, 11. mostly solitary, iie3tary a transverse plait.— E .B. 793. St. 28. 2. R. x. 440. Anthencum Sm.—Height 5 or G in. St. and 1. springing separately from the root. St.-l. several, short. Fl. white with rjddish lines internally.—AVelsh moun- tains; very rare. Snowdon. Glyder Fawr. P. VI. E. Tribe II. Asphodelece. 5. OitNiTHO&'ALUM Linn. Star of Bethlehem. \\. O. icmhellatum (L.) ; fl. corymbose, ped. exceeding the linear-lanceolate bracts, lilaments lanceolate simple, 1. linear glabrous.—E. B. 130. R. x. 467.—L. exceeding the stem or tiliform and shorter. Height 8—12 in. Fl. white with a broad green longitudinal band externally. Meadows and pastures. P. V. E. S. 2. O. pyrendicum (L.); fl. in an elongated naiTOW raceme, ped. at first .spreading afterwards erect, bracts lanceolate-acu- minate, filaments dilated below with a long point, 1. soon fading linear grooved.—E. B. 41)9.—St. leafless, 2—3 feet high, lia- cemj beoomiug very long. Fl. greenish white ; segments of the perianth variable in breadth. L. withering before the stalk appears, rarely contemporaneous.—Woods. Extremely com- mon near Bath. Sussex. Bedfordshire. P. VI. E. [3. 0. mi'.ans (L.); fl. few in a lax nodding raceme, ped. falfing sTiort of the bra^jts, filaments flat membranous trifid, the lateral points acute, middle one very short bearing the anther, 1. linear-lfincoolate.—E. B. 1997. Alhucea R. x. 473.—Height 9—12 in. Fl. large, white, greenish externally.—Fields and orchards, rare. B. IV. V.] E. 6. Ga OEA Salisb. 1. O. lutea (Ker); radical 1. usually solitary linear-lanceolate flat, bracts 2 opposite, peduncles umbellate simple glabrous, segments of the perianth oblong blunt, bulb ovate solitary.— E. B. 21. R. X. 477. Ornif/io;/alum L.—St. about 0 in. high, shorter than the leaves. Braf;ts lanceolate, one often exceeding the yellow flowers. Bulb often enclosing many small round offsets.—Woods and thickets, rare. P. 111. IV. E S$