Tas. 6269. 
MUSCARI ZSTIVALE. 
Native country unknown. 
Nat. Ord. Luz1acka.—Tribe. HyActntTHLA:. 
Genus Muscat, Tourn. (Baker in Journ, Linn, Soc. vol. xi, p. 411) 
Moscari (Moscharia) estivale; bulbo ovoideo tunicato, foliis 5-6 anguste 
linearibus viridibus pedalibus facie profunde canaliculatis, scapo semipedali 
maculato, racemo subspicato 30- 40-floro superne denso, floribus inferiori- 
bus luteis, superioribus purpurascentibus, bracteis minutis linearibus, peri- 
anthio oblongo infra oram angustam 6-umbonato dentibus minutis patulis 
deltoideis, staminibus biseriatis antheris purpureis, stylo cylindrico ovario 
oblongo breviore. 
This is anear neighbour of that old and well-known garden 
favourite, the Musk Hyacinth, Muscari_moschatum, of which 
the typical form is figured, Bot. Mag. tab. 734, anda yellow 
flowered variety, the VW. macrocarpum of Sweet, at tab. 
1565. Besides its botanical characters, our present plant 
differs from moschatum by its faint scent and much later time 
of flowering. It came from the rich bulb collection of H. J; 
Elwes, Esq., of Miserdine House, Cirencester. The drawing 
having been made from specimens that flowered in his 
garden at the middle of June, 1875. He procured it from 
Messrs, Haage and Schmidt, of Erfurt, and does not know its 
exact country, but no doubt, like its allies, it comes from 
some part of the rich Oriental region. Another curious form 
which he brought to Kew at the same time, I have already 
described in the Gardeners’ Chronicle, under the name of 
MM. moschatum, var. creticum. ee 
Drscr. Bulb ovoid, an inch and a half in diameter, 
with brown membranous tunics. Leaves five or six, con- 
temporary with the flowers, narrow linear, about a foot 
long, one sixth to one fourth inch broad, bright green, 
fleshy glabrous, deeply channelled down the face. Scape 
firm, terete, half a foot long, erect, mottled with purple. 
Raceme subspicate, the upper flowers being quite sessile, 
and only the lower ones furnished with very short pedicels 
