Can you help identify this wild bulb?

I found a wild bulb growing in the grass near my apartment.  Actually there
was a tight little mass of them growing in the grassy stretch between the
sidewalk and the street.  My sister tells me they have come up in her yard
before, and she said they were called Star of Bethlehem, but they don't look
like the plant of that common name that I find on the internet.  Their leaves
look like crocus leaves, except all green, lacking any white stripe down the
center.  Their bulbs look like lily bulbs and their flowers look like lillies
as well.   About five upward facing flowers emerge on short stalks which
indeterminately sprout from a single stalk.  The plant leaves have been mowed,
so I can only tell that they grow taller than the grass, but the flowers stand
about 6 inches tall.  Each flower has six narrow petals about an inch long.
The petals are white on the inside of the flower and on the outside a strip of
green remains in a central stripe.  There are six stamens which surround the
single pistol and six-chambered superior ovary.  The stamens are white and
somewhat flattened so that they look almost like small petals themselves.  Can
anyone help me identify this plant?

Linda
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