Differs from our common Harebell (Scrxrxa non /cripta) 
in having a ftraighier raceme with the Howers not bent for- 
wards into one rank; the corolla urceolately or broadly cam- 
panulate and not cylindrically fo, with the edges recurved but 
not. revolute ; in having the ftamens alternately adnate to the 
fegments of the corolla for not more than half their length, 
inftead of nearly the whole of it, while the others are entirely 
free ; the {cent is alfo far weaker than in our wild {pecies. We 
have feen it with bulbs not bigger than a nutmeg, and with the 
fame nearly three inches in diameter, compofed of broad even 
lamine, much in the manner of the roots of the Crown Imperial ; 
thefe have thrown out numerous fafcicles of leaves from be- 
tween their concentric lamina, and ultimately broken up into 
as many feparate bulbs. Varies with blue-violet, azure, pink, 
and white corollas, as do each of thefe again in fize. 
Hyacantuus cernuns of Linnaus is merely a_ pink 
variety of his H. (now Sciiia) non fcriptus ; in conftituting 
which a diftinét fpecies, and giving to it a Spanifh origin, he 
has been moft probably mifled by Cuusrus, who to the de- 
{cription of the prefent fpecies, which he calls H. /i/panicus, 
has adjoined under the fame title, a cut of the Harebell or 
S. non fcripta, the ftamp or block of which had previoufly 
ferved Dopon aus to reprefent that plant in his Pemptades. 
Linnaus had evidently overlooked this piece of inaccuracy. 
The Bankfian Herbarium fhews that the H. cernuus of SoLaN- 
ber in the Hortus Kewenfis and the Sc1.La campanulata of the 
fame are both contained in the varieties now given. The ad- 
hefion of the alternate ftamens fometimes varies in different 
flowers of the fame plant, but feldom exceeds the diftance of 
half their length. 
A native of Spain and Portugal. Perfeétly hardy. Has 
been cultivated in England from the days of Parkinson. 
Blooms in May and June. 
_ The drawings of all the prefent varieties were made from 
Mr. WILLrams’s Nurfery, at Turnham-Green.  G. 
