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Hyacinthus Botryoides. Grape 

 Hyacinth. 



C/j/} tf//^ Order. 

 Hexandria Monogynia. v 



Generic Charatler. 

 Cor. campanulata : Port 3 melliFeri germinis. 



Specific Charatler and Synonyms. 

 HYACINTHUS botryoides corollis globofis uniformibtf: 



foliis canaliculato-cylindricis ftriftis. Linn. 



Syft. Vcgct. cd. 14. Murr. p. 336. Aitu 



Hart. Kczv. v. 1. p. 459. 

 HYACINTHUS raccmofus caeruleus major. Bauh. Pin. 42 

 HYACINTHUS Botroides cacruleus amcenus. 

 The fkie-coloured grape-flower. Park. Par. p. 1 14. p. H3«/* 



The Hyacinthus botryoides , a native of Italy, and cultivated 

 in the time of Gerard and Parkinson, is now become 

 fcarce with us, being only to be accidentally met with in long 

 eftablifhed gardens; we firft faw it in the garden of our verY] 

 worthy and much valued friend, Mr. John Chorley, ot 

 Tottenham, to whofe lady my collection Hands indebted l° r 

 feveral rare and valuable plants. 



This fpecies increafes fufficiently fait by offsets, but in the 

 open border does not very readily produce flowering ftems: 

 as both it and the raccmofus are apt to become troublefome in 

 a garden from their great increafe, we would recommend 

 their bulbs to be placed in moderately fized pots filled wiuj 

 light earth, and plunged in the borders where they are defigned 

 to flower ; in the autumn they (hould be regularly taken out, 

 the offsets thrown away, and about half a dozen of the largeij 

 bulbs left, all of which will mod probably flower at the ulual 

 time, the end of March or beginning of April. 



Parkinson, who mod admirably defcribes this and the 

 racemofuSy enumerates three varieties, viz. the white, the blufi' 

 coloured, and the branched ,• the fir ft is frequently import 

 with other bulbs from Holland, the fecond and third we have 

 not feen; the latter, if we may judge from Parkinson's H\ 

 in his Parad. is a mod curious plant, and was obtained, as 

 Clusius reports, from feeds of the white variety ; whethe 

 it now exifts is deferving of inquiry. 



The botryoides differs from the racemofus, in having its leave 

 upright, its bunch of flowers fmaller, the flowers tbemlelve* 

 larger, rounder, of a paler and brighter blue. 



