GAGEA (named after Sir Thomas Gage, a British botanist, who died at Rome in 1820). ORD. Liliaceoe. A genus of about a score species of hardy bulbs, natives of Europe, temperate Asia, and Northern Africa; formerly included under Ornithogalum. Flowers greenish-yellow, on a scape, in a terminal bracteated umbel. Leaves radical, linear. The species closely resemble each other; but few of them, however, are seen in gardens. For culture, see Ornithogalum. GAGEA lutca (yellow).* Yellow Star of Bethlehem. fl. three or four in a flat raceme, almost contracted into an umbel; the leaf-like bracts as long as the pedicels or longer; perianth segments yellow, with a green back, very spreading, narrow-oblong. Spring. l. one, or very rarely two, linear, pointed and curved like those of a Tulip. Stem slender, rarely 6in. high. Europe and Russian Asia, except the extreme North; also occurring in several parts of England, and, but rarely, in the Lowlands of Scotland. (Sy. En. B. 1522.) GAGEA stenopetala (narrow-petaled). fl. in umbels; perianth pale yellow, deeply six-parted. March. l., root ones solitary, glaucous, revolute, linear-lanceolate, acute, strongly three-nerved; scape leaves opposite, lanceolate, acute, sharply keeled,glaucous, pubescent, and fringed with long hairs. Europe. (S. B. F. G. 177, under name of GAGEA glauca.)