ridged-angular from thé deetirrent draées, which are very 
~ fmail, glandular, and generally placed at a little diftance below 
their pedicles ; thefe are fometimes one hundred and thirty of 
more in number, of a deep blue colour, 3—4 times the length 
of the diameter of the corolla, fparfe, rather diftant, with here: 
and there three or four approaching each other in the manner of 
a whorl; corolla blue-violet; fcentlefs; of very fhort duration, 
refembling that of aufumnalis (No. 919), as the general habit 
of the inflorefcence does that of Muscaxr (Hyacintuus Lin) 
comofum (No. 133); hence moft probably the appellation of 
byacinthoides ; anihers deep purple, {mall, incumbent ; germer 
abortive (according to Brorrro) even in the native plant. 
The Bulb had moft probably acquired the name of eriophorus 
among the older Botanifts, from the filky fibres, which fhew 
themfelves like wool on fuch parts of their coats or bales of 
the decayed leaves as are broken or torn; a charaéter not 
peculiar to this fpecies. é 
Native of Portugal, the Levant, and Madeira. The fpecies 
has been remarked by the older Botanifts, for an extreme 
fhynefs in producing its bloom, Cxvusrus, in the defcription 
which accompanies his figure, announces it as, “ i/le dulbus” 
cujus florem tanto tempore Belgica videre defideravit ;’ informing 
us at the fame time, that during the long period he and _ his 
friends had cultivated the Bulbs, but one had once flowered, 
and that one imported immediately from Conftantinople. 
Mixcer tried them in all fituations for thirty years, with ftill 
lefs fuccefs; for they never once yielded to his perfeverance. 
The Rev. Mr. Lotusury, to whom we are obliged for the 
fpecimen, has had the plant at leaft twenty years in his garden, 
near Bury; and we hear that this is the firft time of its flower 
ing with him. Govan quotes Dopon aus, as recommending 
the occafional removal of the offsets from the mother-bulb, 1” 
order to fucceed in flowering it; but upon referring to the 
author he has cited, we find no fuch obfervation, BroteR0s 
who treats at length upon the native plant, does not notice 
this chara€teriftic. A Bulb was brought from Madeira, by 
Mr. Masson, in 1777, which bloomed at Kew, and has 
afforded a fpecimen for the Bankfian Herbarium, G. 
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