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Hyacintuus Comosus. Two CoLouréd, 
| : of, Passen Hyacinth. 
Clafs and Order. 
Hexanpria MonoGyNiIAs 
Generic Charaffer. 
Grolla campanulata: pori 3-melliferi germinis. 
Specific CharaGer and Synonyms. 
HYACINTHUS como/us corollis angulato-cylindricis: fum- 
mis fterilibus longius pedicellatis. Linu: 
ee Sy/t. Vegetab. ed. 14. Murr. 336. 
HYACINTHUS comolfus major purpureus. Baub. Pin. 42+ 
The purple faire haired Jacinths; or Purfe taffels. Park. 
Parad. p. 117. 
a ra iid : 
Mokt of the old Botanifts arranged this plant, the racemo/usy 
and others having almoft globular flowers with the Hyacinths 
Tournerort, ftruck with the difference of their appearances 
made a diftin@ genus of them under the name of Mu/cart, 
in which he is followed by Mixer, and fhould have been 
by Linnaus, for they differ fo much that no ftudent woul 
confider the prefent plant as belonging to the fame genus 
with the Hare-bell. = | 
This {pecies grows wild in the corn-fields of Spain, Portue | 
gal, and fome parts of Germany, and flowers in May and 
june. — ‘ 
It is diftinguifhed more by its fingularity than beauty, the 
flowers on the fummit of the ftalk differing widely in colour 
from the others, and being moftly barren: Park1NsON faySs 
** the whole ftalke with the flowers upon it, doth fomewhat 
* refemble a long Purfe taffell, and thereupon divers Gentle* 
-* women have foinamed it.” ‘ 
It isa hardy bulbous plant, growing readily in moft foils 
and fituations, and ufually propagated by offsets. 
