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HYACINTHUS orientalis. 
Wild Garden Hyacinth. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Asphodeleje. 
HYACINTHUS. Suprd , vol. 5. fol. 398. 
H. orientalis; corollis infundibuliformibus semisexfidis basi ventricosis. 
Hort. ups. 85. 
Hyacinthus orientalis quibusdam Constantinopolitanus. Bauh. hist. ii. 
p. 575. 
Hyacinthus orientalis voXvcatl; alter. Clus. hist. p. 17 5. c. icone. 
Hyacinthus orientalis greecus. Lob. ic. 104. 
Hyacinthus orientalis incolis Zumbul. Rauw. podoep. part 1 . c. 9. p. 120. 
H. orientalis. Sp. pi. p. Rauw. or. p. 44. Willd. sp. pi. 2. 168. Dec. 
fi.fr. 3. 207. 6. 314. 
The above are probably genuine synonyms of the Hya¬ 
cinthus orientalis in its native state. The other references 
of books seem to refer to cultivated varieties, especially 
the citation of the Flora Atlantica of M. Desfontaines, who 
expressly declares that the plants he saw in Barbary were 
cultivated in the gardens of that country, and not spon¬ 
taneous, as stated in the Botanical Magazine, fol. 937. 
From the Flora orientalis of Rauwolff, it has long 
been known that this beautiful plant is a native of the 
country about Aleppo and Bagdat, where it grows in great 
abundance, flowering in February. But it is only in 
modern times that a European station has been discovered 
for it. In the 6th volume of M. Decandolles Flore Fran- 
£aise, published in 1815, it is, we believe for the first 
time, observed that it had been found in a wild state, 
growing in open sandy places in the neighbourhood of 
Toulon, by M. Robert, and that it had also been observed 
m similar situations in the neighbourhood of Grasse, by 
