PO Ags 4 
Hyacintruus RacemMosus. STARCH 
: HYAcINTH. : 
fF Bese se seakaeak sk shah sk sh she te 
Clafs and Order. 
Hexanpria Monocynta. 
Generic Chara@er. 
Corolla campanulata : pori 3 melliferi germinis. 
Specific Charvaer and Synonyms. 
HYACINTHUS racemofus corollis ovatis, fummis feffilibus, 
foliis laxis, Lzzn. Syft. Veg. ed. 14. Murr. 
~Qa0. dp. Pl. 4k. 
HYACINTHUS Me nate mesiens minor juncifolius. 
: Baub. Pin. p. 43. 
HYACINTHUS botryodes 1. - Car Clus. Hift. p. 181. 
HYACINTHUS racemofus. Dadon. Pempt. p. 217. 
HYACINTHUS botroides minor caruleus obfcurus. The 
darke blew Grape-flower. Park. Par. p. 114+ 
te . “§ 
_, The Hyacinthus racemofus and botryoides are both cultivated 
_ in gardens, but the former here figured is by far the moft 
Common; racemofus and otryoides, though different words, are 
expreffive of the fame meaning, the former being derived from 
the Latin term racemus, the latter from the Greek one Borpus, 
both of which fignify a bunch of grapes, the form of which 
the inflorefcence of thefe plants fomewhat refembles, and 
__aence they have both been called Grape Hyacinths, but as 
— Confufion thereby arifes, we have thought it better to call this 
© -‘pecies the Starch Hyacinth, the fmell of the flower in the 
‘Seheral opinion refembling that fubftance, and leave the _ 
name of Grape Hyacinth for the dotryoides. 
The Hyacintbus racemofus grows wild in the corn fields of 
Germany, in which it increafes fo faft by offsets from the 
-FOot as to prove a very troublefome weed, and on this ac- 
Count it muft be cautioufly introduced into gardens. 
It flowers in April and May. — oe 
__ We have found the N urferymen very apt to miltake it for 
‘the bor ryoides, a figure of which it is our intention to give in 
fome future number. : 
