The Hyacinthus amethystmus of Pallas, a russian plant, 

 usually quoted as a synonym of the present species, is very 

 distinct; belongs to Muscari, and comes near to botryoides. 

 It has been recorded in the Flora Taurico-caucasica of Mr. 

 Marschall of Bieberstein, by the title of Hyacinthus pallens. 

 As at present defined, we know of only two species of this 

 enus, viz. the subject of the present article, and the Garden 

 yacinth (H. orientalis) familiar to every one. 



Bulb about the size of an olive. Leaves several (6-7) 

 equal to or shorter than the scape, \-\ of an inch broad, 

 ligulate, tapered, channelled, streaked beneath, flaccid and 

 recumbent when the plant is in flower. Scape from 9 inches 

 to a foot in height. Raceme openly manyflowered, scattered, 

 somewhat upright; flowers nodding, blue; pedicles re- 

 curved, sometimes as long as the flowers, sometimes shorter; 

 bractes membranous, somewhat coloured, narrow, linearly 

 lanceolate, even with the pedicles. Corolla oblong, cam- 

 panulate, about half an inch in length, round, of a consider- 

 ably larger diameter than the tube of a crow-quill, not en- 

 larged at the bottom as in the Garden Hyacinth, faintly 

 hexangular at the upper part, with angles of a deeper blue, 

 sixcleft for about £ of its length; limb of a paler colour than 

 the tube, even, widespread, recurved, with obovately rounded 

 segments, outer ones with a small thick point, inner ones 

 retuse. Stamens deepishly enclosed within the tube, nearly 

 as short again as the corolla, alternating in length \ filaments 

 adnate for three fourths of their length, subulate, connivent: 

 anthers upright, suspended from the back, with sulphur- 

 coloured pollen. Pistil about equal to the three shorter sta- 

 mens : germen scarcely so large as a mustard-seed, roundish, 

 faintly 3-lobed, marked with 6 lines: style subulately con- 

 tinuous, stiff, slightly 3-edged, when viewed through a 

 magnifier sixstreaked : stigma a simple blunt point. 



