HYACINTHUS botryoides major mofch. f. Mufcari flore 

 flavo et cinerkio. Park. Par. 112. n. 1, 2. /. 113. 



/■ 3. -4. ' 

 MUSCARI flavum et Clufii. Ger. emac. 120. /. 1, 2. 



NARCISSUS. 5. Camerar. 442. C. 



BOLBO vomitorio. Gt/?. Durant. 81. 



Bulb tunicate, ovate, white. Leaves four or thereabouts, 

 lorate-linear, fomewhat convolutely concave, 7 — 10 inches 

 long and about half a one broad, bluntifh, thickifh, lax, 

 furrounding the fcape, which is weak, fhorter, fmooth, cy- 

 lindrical ; raceme clofifh, oblong-ovate ; flowers fparfe ho- 

 rizontal ; pedicles very fhort, iffuing from hollows funk in 

 the rachis ; braftes minute, ftill fhorter, lacerate. Corolla 

 narrow, ovate-urceolatej obfcurely three-cornered, fplitting at 

 the neck into a minute, rotate, fexpartite limb, and a yet 

 fmaller prominent torn coronet terminating its very narrow 

 orifice, the firft the continuation of the outer cuticle, the 

 fecond of the inner, both quickly fading, while the more fub- 

 flantial part of the flower remains for fome time unchanged. 

 Stamens twice fhorter than the corolla, almoft entirely adnate, 

 alternate ones longer, anthers fmall, dark-coloured with yellow 

 pollen. Germen ovate, acutely trigonal ; ftyle fhort ; ftigma 

 obfcurely trifid, capitate-trigonal. The flowers are larger than 

 thofe of the other fpecies, of little beauty, but amply re- 

 compenfing the want of it by their extreme fragrance ; from 

 which circumftance the Turks have given it the appellation 

 of Muscari, the fcent refembling that of certain paftilles 

 they ufe to perfume their chambers, which are known by the 

 fame name : it was brought from the gardens in the vicinity 

 of Conftantinople, according to Clusius, about 1554. Dr. 

 Patrick Russell found it growing wild near Aleppo, till 

 when its precife habitat was not fatisfafciorily afcertained. The 

 Italians call it Mufchio greco. There is a yellow fort, called 

 Tibcadi Mufcari by the Dutch Florifts, fuppofed to be a mere 

 variety, the fragrance of which is ftill more exquifite, and we 

 are told that fine roots of it fell for a guinea a piece in Hol- 

 land. We never faw it. Our variety was cultivated by Ge- 

 rarde in 1597. It is a hardy plant, thrives in a fouthern 

 afpeft, propagating abundantly both by feed and offsets. G. 



