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GALANTHirS pUcatus. 



jRugsian Snow-drop. 



HEXANpAlA. VONOQYm^* 



Nat. wd. Narcissi. Ju$Heu gen. S4. J}w. //. Germea inferum. 



Amaryllideje, Brawn prod. I. W6, Sect L IUd>s bul- 

 bosa- Floras spatfaacei, umbeUatt^ rar6 solitarii. 



GALANTHUS. Coroilte laciniifi petalodibus^ 3 alternis diffbmribw. 

 Nobisinjoum. of science ^und the arts. 2,344. C«etera omnmo Leucojii 

 quod proximo Strumaria flifiert per spadiam follicularem antherasque in- 

 versas apice dehiscentes neQ non filameDto longiores. Otmla in G. plicafo 

 oblonga rostrata. 



G^pHcaiUir foliis plicatis: plic4 utrinque marine paralMA, spatha pedun- 



culuip ^up«rante. Mar$ch. 4 bieb. j^or. taw. c«^. «i^j>/. 25d. 

 Galanthus plicatus, Curtis^f maaaz. 2lJQ2. 



Galanthus nivalis- ^. RedouU hliac, WO. B; (ahsqwicme). 

 Nareissoleueojum trifolium in^JMs. Tounysf, inst. 387. 

 Leucojum bulbosum secundum. Tabem. krauterb. % 1005, 

 Leucojum bulbosum pnecox byzantinnm. Clus, hUt, 1.169, 



Differt aivali, occiflentali EftroM fav^^wri^ »tatur& in nnipermm n^jore 

 atqne robustiore^ foliis tatioribus utriMmf prove mffrginem pttcS bn^tudmali 

 insigni imtruetu^ )^ne bic&rinatk iUmS'UcanaUcubitis, pedtincnio ftrerioret 

 petaloram nectarii pbigd mridi tatwh,' ^Ucpmim h^c, ^ntiqnk^m v^fti- 

 gia premens, nup^r a$^U)|n< ^tffM c^M't^^ cpv^ruiay^ 0mcis^m^f Fischer. 

 Marsch, 1. c. 



Teriium genus (Galanthus pUcatus) secundo (nivali) fer^ timite est. 

 ineunteque Martio bini folia promit illi simiiia, sed latiora, <eruginei etiam 

 cohrisy ftoris gemmam utin iUo complecteniia : crassittsadus caulis tandem 

 succrescenst unicamfioremvaginitl&inclusumsustinet, formd nivali simOem^ 

 duplofer^ majorem^ 3 extemis foliis alarum modo expansis^ prorsus niveis, in- 

 terioribus vera hrevibus, bisulcis ut in nivali, simul coeuntibus^ et vebtti tu- 

 bulum quempiam efformantibus^ foris plerumgue circd ungues virescentibut, 

 reliqud parte albis^ oras tamen secundum arenas virides maculm vificiunt, 

 interiits vera aut magnd ex parte viridia sunt^ aut octo radiis ah imis nngui- 

 bus secundum hmgitudinem dnctis prcedita: Leucoji vemi fragrantiam 

 utcunque temulatur kicjhs, et suavius quidpiam spirare wihi videtur: radix 

 nivalis major* Clus, hist loc. cit. 



Many of the plants of Northern Asia, which had found 

 their way into the gardens of the western countries of Eu- 

 rope, through Vienna, and had been registered in the works 

 of the older botanists, having been subsequently lost, are 

 now reappearing amongst us through Moscow, where mag- 

 nificent botanical collections have been formed, and where 

 the communication with the Asiatic provinces of the Russian 



