Plate 269 - Hexandria Monogynia

Liverpool Library N°269 Pah by Curtis Neo Crekent 1701 Ornithogalum 269 Nutans Neapolitan sTAR OF Bethlehem Class and Order HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA Generic Character Cor 6 petala erecta persistens supra medium patens Filamenta alterna basi dilatata specific Character and synonyms Ornithogalum nutans floribus fecundis pendulis nec tario ftamineo campaniformi Linn syst Vegetab ed 14 Murr p 328 Ait Kew v 1 p 443 Ornithogalum exoticum magno flore minori innato Bauh Pin p 70 Ornithogalum Neopolitanum the starre-flower of Naples Park Parad p 138 p 137 f 8 Cluf app alt.p 9 fig 7 Authors have given to this species of Ornithogalum the name of Neapolitan sollowing Clusius by whom the plant is figured and described and who so called it merely on receiv ing it from Naples it may perhaps be doubted whether it be originally a native of Italy Prof Jacquin has figured it in his Flora Austriaca the plant being common about Vienna in garden-walks under hedges and in meadows he does not however from that circumstance regard it as an original native there CAsP Bauhin informs us that Honorius Belli sent it him from Crete under the name of Phalangium leaving its true habitat to be fettled more precifely hereafter we fhall obferve that it is one of those plants which soon accommodate themfelves to any country producing a numerous progeny both from roots and seeds and by no means nice as to soil or situation it is not long besore it becomes a weed in the garden from whence it is apt like the Hyacinthus racemofus already figured to pafs into the field or meadow Its flowers which if not beautiful are singular and delicate make their appearance towards the end of April they are of no long duration seldom continuing above a sortnight and are fuc ceeded by seed-vessels which produce abundance of ripe seed by which as well as by its bulbs the plant may be increased In the Hortus Kewenfis it is fet down as a Greenhouse plant one of the rare errors which occur in that most ufeful work

Liverpool Library N°269 Pah by Curtis Neo Crekent 1701 Ornithogalum 269 Nutans Neapolitan sTAR OF Bethlehem Class and Order HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA Generic Character Cor 6 petala erecta persistens supra medium patens Filamenta alterna basi dilatata specific Character and synonyms Ornithogalum nutans floribus fecundis pendulis nec tario ftamineo campaniformi Linn syst Vegetab ed 14 Murr p 328 Ait Kew v 1 p 443 Ornithogalum exoticum magno flore minori innato Bauh Pin p 70 Ornithogalum Neopolitanum the starre-flower of Naples Park Parad p 138 p 137 f 8 Cluf app alt.p 9 fig 7 Authors have given to this species of Ornithogalum the name of Neapolitan sollowing Clusius by whom the plant is figured and described and who so called it merely on receiv ing it from Naples it may perhaps be doubted whether it be originally a native of Italy Prof Jacquin has figured it in his Flora Austriaca the plant being common about Vienna in garden-walks under hedges and in meadows he does not however from that circumstance regard it as an original native there CAsP Bauhin informs us that Honorius Belli sent it him from Crete under the name of Phalangium leaving its true habitat to be fettled more precifely hereafter we fhall obferve that it is one of those plants which soon accommodate themfelves to any country producing a numerous progeny both from roots and seeds and by no means nice as to soil or situation it is not long besore it becomes a weed in the garden from whence it is apt like the Hyacinthus racemofus already figured to pafs into the field or meadow Its flowers which if not beautiful are singular and delicate make their appearance towards the end of April they are of no long duration seldom continuing above a sortnight and are fuc ceeded by seed-vessels which produce abundance of ripe seed by which as well as by its bulbs the plant may be increased In the Hortus Kewenfis it is fet down as a Greenhouse plant one of the rare errors which occur in that most ufeful work