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MUSCARI glaucum. 
Glaucous-leaved Grape-Hyacinth. 
ee 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. AsPHODELEA. 
MUSCARI. Supra, vol. 5. fol. 394. 
M. glaucum; floribus turbinatis, racemo laxo pyramidato multifloro, foliis 
latis acuminatis glaucis. 
Folia 5-6, suberecta, plana, glabra, glauca, acuminata, scapo breviora. 
Scapus pedalis, glaber, teres. Racemus multiflorus, pyramidalis, floribus 
longè pedunculatis, distantibus, bracteolá vix ullá. Flores turbinati, sex- 
dentati, angulati, purpureo-virides, sub fauce paulò constricti, laciniis apice 
subpubescentibus. Stamina fauce inserta. Stigma capitatum. 
A single bulb of this new Muscari was sent from 
Persia, in 1825, to the Horticultural Society, by Henry 
Willoch, Esq. ; the paper which contained it was marked 
< wild bulb from the mountains." It is quite distinct from 
any species previously described. M. ciliatum, figured at 
fol. 394 of this work, is the most nearly related, but differs 
in having densely ciliated leaves, and in many other 
respects. 
Apparently quite hardy. The root from which our 
drawing was made flowered in the Chiswick Garden, in a 
border under a south wall, in May 1827. 
Leaves 5 or 6, somewhat erect, flat, smooth, glaucous, 
acuminate, shorter than the scape. Scape about a foot 
high, smooth, round. Raceme many-flowered, pyramidal, 
with distant flowers on long stalks, and scarcely any brac- 
teola. Flowers turbinate, 6-toothed, angular, purplish- 
green, a little contracted below the faux; the segments 
downy at the apex. Stamens inserted into the faux. 
Stigma capitate. J. L. 
