Curtis Botanical Magazine Plate 876 - Ornithogalum latifolium (Broad-leaved Star of Bethlehem) | Original Hand-Colored Print

Original hand-colored antique botanical print from Curtis's Botanical Magazine - Plate 876, Ornithogalum latifolium (Broad-leaved Star of Bethlehem).

• Plate: 876
• Latin name: Ornithogalum latifolium
• Common name: Broad-leaved Star of Bethlehem
• Flowering: June
• Flower colour: White
• Linnaean class / order: Hexandria / Monogynia
• Engraver: Nonidius sculp
• Medium: Original hand-colored engraving (physical print, not a reproduction)

Original Curtis text
Transcribed from the plate's accompanying description page:

[ 876 ]

ORNITHOGALUM LATIFOLIUM. BROAD-LEAVED STAR OF BETHLEHEM.

. . .

Class and Order.
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Generic Character.
—Vid. N° 653, atque Obs. ad 746.

Specific Character and Synonyms.
ORNITHOGALUM latifolium foliis lanceolato-oblongis, concavis, ante anthefin fuperius emarcel-centibus; floribus numerosiſſimis, remotiusculis, pedunculis patentiſſimis, bracteas ter-quater excedenibus; staminibus pistillo æqualibus petalis 2-3plo brevioribus. G. ORNITHOGALUM latifolium. Sp. Pl. 442. Suppl. 202. Hort. Kew. 1. 441. Facq. Ic. Rar. 2. i. 424. Coll. 2. 318. Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. 119. ORNITHOGALUM maximum. Cluf. Hiſt. App. cclvii. ORNITHOGALUM vel Lilium alexandrinum floribus albis innumerabilibus. Swert. Floril. 58. ORNITHOGALUM latifolium et maximum. Baub. Pin. 70. ORNITHOGALUM maximum album. Park. Parad. 135. t. 137. f. 2. This very ornamental species has been an inhabitant of our gardens ever since the days of PARKINSON; and being a free blower, of easy culture, and tolerably hardy, is now very common; flowers about June. Leaves from a foot to a foot and half high, about two inches broad; of a bright yellowish green while young; begin to rife from the ground in January, but are withered

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