HYACINTHUS caule nudo foliis linguiformibus acuminatis 
dentatis. Gron. Virg. 38. (Tantummodo inflorefcentia 
Specimen habet Herbarium Claytonianum ; folia defunt.) 
H. floridanus fpicatus. Pluk, Amalth. 119. tab. 437. fig. 2. 
Descr. ,Stem 1—2 feet high, brownifh green covered with a 
very fine grey meal ; /eaves much fhorter, narrow, grafs-like ; 
corolla {carcely the third of an inch Jong, whitifh, fegments 
tipped with a cinnamon brown; anibers deep tawny yellow; — 
‘germen green; fiyles white, nearly the length of the germen; 
the whole plant fcentlefs. Native of North-America. Culti- 
vated by P, Mriier in 1768. Blooms about June. Requires 
the prote@tion of a garden frame in very fevere weather in this > 
country, where it feldom feeds; and, being propagated with — 
fome difficulty by the root, is ftilla fcarce plant. Nor have 
we ever feen it in flower, until the prefent {pecimen was fent 
us by Meffrs. Loppices, from their Nurfery at Hackney. 
It is faid to be known by the name of Star-gra/s or Star-root 
in America, and ufed medicinally. Seeing that there are no 
leaves to the fpecimen in CLayron’s Herbarium, from which 
the “ Flora Virginica” was compiled by Gronovius; we 
Tufpe& that the very erroneous defcription of them in the firft 
edition of that work, was owing to this circumftance, which 
, org a fome other fource fhould be reforted to by the 
autnor. ° ‘ Sey ” 
n a" 
SpecieRuUM EnumeRatio. 
+ 
farinofa. Supra No. 1418. 
aurea, Walt, Flor. Carol.121. Gmel.Syft. Nat. 7.562, Michaux. 
Fl, Bor.- Amer. 1.190, Eruzrmerum ©. Pluk, Almag. 
135- Phyt.174. f. 5; (fynon. a Linnego male Heroni& 
bullate dafum. ) 
japonica, Lambert in Linn. Tranf. 10. 407, iu pag. talte. 
farinola. Thunb. Linn. in Tranf, 2.934, Hyeoxts 
Spicata. id, Flor. Fapon, 136, 
