Floral Illustrations of the Seasons / Consisting of the Most Beautiful, Hardy and Rare Herbaceous Plants, Cultivated in the Flower Garden

by Margaret Roscoe

Pl. 47.

Plate 48. Sternbergia lutea.
Drawn from Nature by M.R. Engraved by R. Havell Jun^r.

STERNBERGIA Lutea.

Yellow Sternbergia.

Class and Order.—Hexandria Monogynia.

Syn.	Sternbergia Lutea.	Sweet's Hort. Brit. p. 505.
—	Amaryllis Lutea.	Bot. Mag. t. 290.

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Root bulbous—leaves radical, broadly linear, channelled, obtuse, dark green, lighter underneath—scape one-flowered, seven or eight inches high—spathe ovate, lanceolate—corolla yellow—six petals, oblong, obtuse, margin entire—stamens six—filaments inserted at the base of the petals—anthers oblong—style one—stigma very small—germen large.