The British Flower Garden (Volume 2); Containing Coloured Figures & Descriptions of the Most Ornamental & Curious Hardy Herbaceous Plants (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1827 Excerpt: ... GAGEA bracteolaris. Sheathing bracted Gagea. Natural Order. Asphodeles. Brown prodr.l.p.27i. GAGE A. Perianthium G-partitum, subaequale, patens, persistens: Stamina 6: filamento basi perianthio inserta, augusta, planiuscnla: anther lineares, stricts, basi inserta: . Ovarium snperum, 3-loculare, 3-valve. Stylus in plerisque clavatns. Stigma triloba, fimbriata. Semina parva, numerosa, subrotunda.--Planta e gramine facie Hypoxidum. Radix parva, bulbosa. Folia pauca, obtuse mucronata, plus minus villosa. Flores lutei, corymbosi. Pedunculus angulatus, plus minus decompositus ramis s ptus brevissimis pedicellis longis. rae teas ad ramos solitaria pr ter alias interdum inferius spar sas, foliace . Genus ante cum Ornithogalo confusum, in quo corolla cito marcescit et inflorescentia lotige diversa. Salisbury in Annals of Botany, v. 2.' p. 555. G. bracteolaris, folio radicali unico lineari subtriquetro basi canalicular erecto glabro; floralibus oppositis lanceolatis concavis, pedicellis subumbellatis triquetris pilosis, perianthii foIiolis oblongo-lanceolatis obtusiusculis stellato-patentibus. Gagea bracteolaris. Salisb. in ann. bot. 2. p. 556. Ornithogalum luteum. Linn. sp. pl. I. p. 306. Pers. syn. 1. p. 363. non Eng. bot. Ornithogalum pratense. Persoon in Usteri N. Bot. Annal. 5. Sitie, p. 8. t. 2./.1. Pyrrochiton. Renealm. spec. 91. t. 90. Bulb small, solitary, clothed with a hardish brown shell, and from the base is produced a dense tuft of small fibres. Leaf at the root solitary, erect, nearly double the length of the scape, bluntly 3-sided, flat on the upper side, but slightly channelled near the base, the point bluntish, of a bright green and smooth. Leaves on the scape opposite, from 2 to 4, lanceolate, b...